Exploration: reasons and consequences: question bank

Q1

FoundationWords and meanings

What does the word exploration mean?

Travelling somewhere to find out what is thereConquering land by forceBuying and selling spicesSailing only at night

Q2

FoundationWords and meanings

A history book says a European sailor "discovered" an island where thousands of people already lived, farmed and traded. Which word is more honest for what happened when the ship arrived?

DiscoveryInventionEncounterAccident

Q3

CoreWords and meanings

Which of these is a fair use of the word "discover"?

Columbus discovered AmericaAstronomers discovered a new cometDa Gama discovered IndiaCook discovered Australia

Q4

CoreWords and meanings

A Portuguese sailor and a Malabar merchant meet for the first time at Calicut in 1498. What is the most accurate word for this event?

InvasionEncounterDiscoveryAccident

Q5

CoreWords and meanings

"Indigenous" means...

Belonging to a place from long before outsiders arrivedForeignRoyalExtremely old, with no other meaning

Q6

StretchWords and meanings

A textbook states a single, very precise number for how many people lived in the Americas in 1492, with no range and no source given. What is the most likely problem with this?

It is definitely the wrong numberIt is hiding a genuine, wide scholarly disagreement behind a false sense of precisionNothing; precise numbers are always betterThe number must have come from a census taken in 1492

Q7

StretchWords and meanings

Give one word for "evidence made at the time by someone who was actually there, such as a ship's log, a letter or a customs record."

Your answer

Q8

ChallengeWords and meanings

Which of these sentences use the word "discover" fairly? (There may be more than one correct answer.)

Choose all that apply.

Astronomers discovered a new exoplanet no human had ever detected beforeColumbus discovered a continent that belonged to nobody in particularThe explorers discovered a village of about 2,000 people who had lived there for generationsA survey team charted a coastline no map had ever recorded, and called it a new discovery on the map

Q9

FoundationReasons and consequences

Which of these is a reason people set out on a voyage, not a consequence of one?

Chillies became common in Indian cookingA pilgrim wants to reach MeccaSmallpox spread through the AmericasEuropean maps became more accurate

Q10

FoundationReasons and consequences

Which option correctly pairs a reason for exploration with a matching example?

Rivalry - Spain funds Columbus partly because Portugal is getting rich from its own routeTrade - a storm blows a ship off its planned courseAccident - a king wants to out-do a rival kingdomCuriosity - enslaved people are shipped across the Atlantic

Q11

CoreReasons and consequences

A ruler funds a voyage mainly because a rival kingdom is getting rich from a new route. Which of the six reasons for exploration is this?

CuriosityRivalryEscape and migrationAccident

Q12

CoreReasons and consequences

Cabral's fleet, sailing for India in 1500, swung so far out into the Atlantic that it landed in Brazil instead. Which reason for exploration does this illustrate?

AccidentTradeCuriosityRivalry

Q13

CoreReasons and consequences

The English East India Company's 1600 charter was for trade: pepper, cotton cloth and other goods. By the 1760s the Company was collecting taxes across Bengal. Was tax-collecting government a stated reason for the 1600 charter, or a later consequence?

A stated reason from the startA consequence that developed later

Q14

StretchReasons and consequences

A single voyage usually had more than one reason behind it at once. Which two reasons combined most strongly in Vasco da Gama's 1497-98 voyage?

Trade and rivalryEscape and accidentCuriosity alone, with no other motiveNone: only one reason can ever apply to a voyage

Q15

StretchReasons and consequences

Which statement about slavery and exploration is most accurate?

Slavery was a stated reason for the very first Atlantic voyages of the 1490sSlavery began as a consequence of the plantations set up after 1492, and then itself became a reason for thousands of further voyagesSlavery had nothing to do with the voyages of explorationSlavery only ever affected the Indian Ocean

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