AP European History / Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration

1.6 Technological Advances and the Age of Exploration

3 practice questions

Notes

Motives: God, gold, glory. Technology: the caravel, the compass, the astrolabe, better maps and gunpowder. Portugal (Dias, da Gama) and Spain (Columbus, Magellan) led.

Practice

Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to sail around the:

Magellan's expedition was the first to:

Which technology helped Europeans explore?

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