The Age of Discovery

What this quiz asks

• Which Portuguese prince sponsored the early voyages down the coast of Africa and earned the nickname 'the Navigator'?
• Which ocean did Ferdinand Magellan name for its calm waters after he left the stormy strait at the tip of South America?
• Select ALL of the ships that sailed on Christopher Columbus's first voyage in 1492.
• In 1488 Bartolomeu Dias became the first European known to sail round which cape?
• Vasco da Gama opened the sea route from Europe to India in 1498, dropping anchor near which Indian city?
• Pedro Álvares Cabral reached the coast of Brazil in 1500 while leading a fleet bound for India.
• Columbus's first landfall in the Americas, in October 1492, was an island in which group?
• What was the name of the small, nimble ship with triangular lateen sails that carried the early Portuguese explorers?
• Was Ferdinand Magellan, who led Spain's great voyage west in 1519, born Portuguese?
• Magellan was killed in battle in 1521 on the island of Mactan, in which modern country?
• Which ship of Magellan's fleet made it back to Spain in 1522, completing the first voyage around the world?
• Select ALL of these navigators who made their famous voyages in the service of Portugal.
• The Moluccas, the 'Spice Islands' that Portugal and Spain raced to reach, belong to which country today?
• The first known map to put the name 'America' on the New World, in 1507, was drawn by which cartographer?
• Bartolomeu Dias died in 1500 when his ship was lost in a storm near the very cape he had been first to round.
• The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas drew its dividing line how many leagues west of the Cape Verde islands?
• Order these events from earliest to latest.
• Which pope issued the 1493 bulls that first split newly found lands between Spain and Portugal, a year before Tordesillas?
• Which Portuguese navigator reached the mouth of the Congo River in 1482 and set up a stone pillar there?
• In 1434, which Portuguese captain finally sailed past Cape Bojador, a headland sailors had feared as the edge of the known world?