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History & Geography Grade 4 Unit 1b - The Age of Exploration Part 1

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Long ago the people of Europe became very curious about other lands. Some of these people were brave as well as curious. A few of them were willing to sail out into the dangerous oceans to learn about our earth. These men sailed from Europe to explore the earth during the Age of Exploration. To begin with you will learn about three of those men: Prince Henry, Christopher Columbus, and Ferdinand Magellan.
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Pregunta 1

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For hundreds and even thousands of years people have liked spices.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 2

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In the past, spices were especially important as people did not have refrigerators. Food, especially meat, would spoil very quickly.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 3

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Salt helped to prevent meat from spoiling.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 4

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Spices made plain, bad-tasting, or part spoiled food taste better.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 5

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Spices were not very valuable.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 6

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Before the Age of Exploration spices in Europe were
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  • easy to find and very cheap to buy
  • hard to find and very expensive

Pregunta 7

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Spices usually grow in
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  • places of warm weather
  • places of cold weather

Pregunta 8

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Most spices came from the warm islands and coasts of the Far East (southeastern Asia)
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 9

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Hundreds of years ago spices had to be brought to Europe
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  • a very short way by a easy route.
  • a very long way over a difficult route.

Pregunta 10

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Most spices came from Europe
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 11

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Most spices came from India, the middle of southern Asia, and the islands between Asia and Australia.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 12

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Europeans called the islands between Asia and Australia the "Spice Islands".
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 13

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Spices had to be carried to Africa and west Asia in what from the Spice Islands?
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After being transported to western Asia or Africa, the spices then had to be taken long distances overland to cities on the Mediterranean Sea. By what mode of transport were they taken?
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365px-Mediterranean_Relief (image/jpg)
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Pregunta 15

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The Mediterranean Sea is part of which ocean?
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240px-Mediterranean_Sea_political_map-en.svg (image/png)
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Pregunta 16

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From the Mediterranean the spices are then again loaded onto what to be transported across the water to Europe?
Image:
240px-Mediterranean_Sea_political_map-en.svg (image/png)
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Pregunta 17

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Crossing the ocean was dangerous because of what?
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250px-Spanish_Galleon_Firing_its_Cannon (image/jpg)
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Pregunta 18

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Often, crossing land with the spices was even more difficult than crossing the sea.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 19

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When transporting goods across land by camel, each camel could only carry a small part of the huge amount of spices. This meant that many camels were needed and it was very expensive.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 20

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Thieves would sometimes attack the camel caravans and steal the spices.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 21

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Cities along the caravan routes charged for the caravans to pass in safety, which made the trip even more expensive.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 22

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By the time the spices reached Europe, the merchants had to sell them for very high prices to pay for the cost of bringing them there.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 23

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Did people still want to buy the spices even though the prices were high?
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  • Yes
  • No

Pregunta 24

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Peppercorns were so valuable that they were sometimes called what?
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  • black coal
  • black gold
  • black money

Pregunta 25

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Many of the spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves were actually worth their weight in what?
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  • silver
  • copper
  • gold

Pregunta 26

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Spice merchants often became rich men.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 27

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Sea captains and merchants realized that it would be more cost effective if they could find a way to reach the Spice Islands by water only. That way they could bring back bigger cargoes and not have to pay to transport them across the dessert. But in those days, no one knew a route to sail a ship from Europe to Southeast Asia, because no one knew what the earth looked like. They did not know that there was an ocean south of Africa. They did not know what was across the Atlantic Ocean west of Europe.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 28

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People were also very afraid of the ocean and what there might be out there.
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  • True
  • False

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Sailors told stories of huge sea monsters that swallowed ships.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 30

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Most educated people knew the earth was a sphere, but some still believed it was flat.
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  • True
  • False

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Some people were afraid of sailing too far from land and falling off the edge of the earth.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 32

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Ships were driven by wind in their sails. If the winds did not blow in the right direction, the ship might not be able to make it home.
Image:
250px-Spanish_Galleon (image/jpg)
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 33

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It was very difficult to find a way to sail to Spice Islands in the far east of the earth.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 34

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Prince Henry the Navigator was born in the country of
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220px-Henry_the_Navigator1 (image/jpg)
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Pregunta 35

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Prince Henry the Navigator was born in the year
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  • 1394
  • 1451
  • 1480

Pregunta 36

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Prince Henry was the king's third son and never himself became king. Instead he became famous for
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Pregunta 37

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Who is generally accepted as the most famous explorer from the Age of Exploration?
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Pregunta 38

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In what country was Christopher Columbus born?
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In what year was Christopher Columbus born?
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  • 1394
  • 1451
  • 1480

Pregunta 40

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What profession was Columbus' father?
Image:
220px-Christopher_Columbus.PNG (image/PNG)
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  • Builder
  • Weaver
  • Painter

Pregunta 41

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Whilst in Portugal, Columbus had an idea. What was it?
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  • He would try to prove the world was round
  • He thought he could sail to the spice islands by sailing west from Portugal instead of east because the world was round!
  • He would try to prove the world was flat

Pregunta 42

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It was a good idea of Columbus' to sail west around the world but unfortunately there was something in his way. What was it?
Image:
250px-EU-Portugal_with_islands_circled.svg (image/png)
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Pregunta 43

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Columbus knew that the Americas were between Europe and the Spice Islands in the Far East
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  • True
  • False

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Columbus thought that the world was smaller than it really was.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 45

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Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to pay for Columbus' voyage.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 46

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At the time of Columbus, educated people in Europe were quite sure the world was round and not flat.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 47

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Columbus had three ships called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Image:
250px-Christopher_Columbus_on_Santa_Maria_in_1492. (image/jpg)
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  • True
  • False
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