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History & Geography Grade 4 Unit 1b - The Age of Exploration Part 1
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1For hundreds and even thousands of years people have liked spices.
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2In the past, spices were especially important as people did not have refrigerators. Food, especially meat, would spoil very quickly.
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3Salt helped to prevent meat from spoiling.
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4Spices made plain, bad-tasting, or part spoiled food taste better.
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5Spices were not very valuable.
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6Before the Age of Exploration spices in Europe were
- Aeasy to find and very cheap to buy
- Bhard to find and very expensive
7Spices usually grow in
- Aplaces of warm weather
- Bplaces of cold weather
8Most spices came from the warm islands and coasts of the Far East (southeastern Asia)
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9Hundreds of years ago spices had to be brought to Europe
- Aa very short way by a easy route.
- Ba very long way over a difficult route.
10Most spices came from Europe
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11Most spices came from India, the middle of southern Asia, and the islands between Asia and Australia.
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12Europeans called the islands between Asia and Australia the "Spice Islands".
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13Spices had to be carried to Africa and west Asia in what from the Spice Islands?
- APlanes
- BShips
- CTrucks
- APlanes
14After 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?
- ACaravans
- BCaravans
- ACaravans
15The Mediterranean Sea is part of which ocean?
- AAtlantic
- BPacific
- CArctic
- AAtlantic
16From the Mediterranean the spices are then again loaded onto what to be transported across the water to Europe?
- ACamel caravan
- BShips
- ACamel caravan
17Crossing the ocean was dangerous because of what?
- AEnemy bomber planes
- BStorms and pirates
- AEnemy bomber planes
18Often, crossing land with the spices was even more difficult than crossing the sea.
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19When 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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20Thieves would sometimes attack the camel caravans and steal the spices.
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21Cities along the caravan routes charged for the caravans to pass in safety, which made the trip even more expensive.
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22By 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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23Did people still want to buy the spices even though the prices were high?
- AYes
- BNo
24Peppercorns were so valuable that they were sometimes called what?
- Ablack coal
- Bblack gold
- Cblack money
25Many of the spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves were actually worth their weight in what?
- Asilver
- Bcopper
- Cgold
26Spice merchants often became rich men.
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27Sea 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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28People were also very afraid of the ocean and what there might be out there.
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29Sailors told stories of huge sea monsters that swallowed ships.
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30Most educated people knew the earth was a sphere, but some still believed it was flat.
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31Some people were afraid of sailing too far from land and falling off the edge of the earth.
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32Ships 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.
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33It was very difficult to find a way to sail to Spice Islands in the far east of the earth.
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34Prince Henry the Navigator was born in the country of
- APortugal
- BSpain
- CItaly
- APortugal
35Prince Henry the Navigator was born in the year
- A1394
- B1451
- C1480
36Prince Henry was the king's third son and never himself became king. Instead he became famous for
- Adiscovering the Americas
- Bexploring the coast of Africa
- Csailing around the world
- Adiscovering the Americas
37Who is generally accepted as the most famous explorer from the Age of Exploration?
- APrince Henry
- BChristopher Columbus
- CFerdinand Magellan
- APrince Henry
38In what country was Christopher Columbus born?
- AItaly
- BSpain
- CPortugal
- AItaly
39In what year was Christopher Columbus born?
- A1394
- B1451
- C1480
40What profession was Columbus' father?
- ABuilder
- BWeaver
- CPainter
41Whilst in Portugal, Columbus had an idea. What was it?
- AHe would try to prove the world was round
- BHe thought he could sail to the spice islands by sailing west from Portugal instead of east because the world was round!
- CHe would try to prove the world was flat
42It was a good idea of Columbus' to sail west around the world but unfortunately there was something in his way. What was it?
- AGreenland
- BThe Americas
- CAfrica
- AGreenland
43Columbus knew that the Americas were between Europe and the Spice Islands in the Far East
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44Columbus thought that the world was smaller than it really was.
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45Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to pay for Columbus' voyage.
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46At the time of Columbus, educated people in Europe were quite sure the world was round and not flat.
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47Columbus had three ships called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
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- Beschreibung
- 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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- English
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