history activity, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, with questions about The Great Navigations.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
1) There were several dangers faced by the first European navigators. Some dangers were real and some were imaginary. Name some of these dangers:
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2) The Portuguese poet Luis Vaz de Camões, knowledgeable about life at sea, mentioned in his work “Os Lusíadas”, about scurvy, a disease that afflicted sailors. Read the verses of Camões below, and answer what happened to those who contracted this disease:
“And it was that of raw and ugly disease
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3) Read the alternatives below, identify the incorrect one and correct it:
The Great Navigations brought about the following changes:
a) Trade has become global.
b) The Mediterranean became more important than the Atlantic as a trade route.
c) Europeans built colonial empires that encompassed lands in Africa. Asia and America.
d) Europeans, Africans, Asians and Amerindians had to live more and more with the differences between them.
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4) About the Treaty of Tordesillas:
I. It was an agreement between Portugal and Spain on the waters and lands that would be for each of them.
II. This treaty stated that 370 leagues from the Cape Verde islands should pass an imaginary line. The lands west of it belonged to Spain, and those located to the east would belong to Portugal.
III. The rights of the peoples who lived in America were not respected.
Tick the correct alternative:
a) Only option I is correct:
b) Only option II is correct.
c) Only option III is correct.
d) All alternatives are correct.
5) Complete the sentences below:
a) The first navigator to arrive in the Indies was ________________________________.
b) _________________________ was the vessel used in the Great Navigations.
c) The second navigator who arrived in America in 1492 was _____________________.
d) The ________________________________ were competitors of the Portuguese in the voyages of the Great Navigations.
e) The ocean that the Portuguese crossed to reach the lands where Brazil is today was the ______________________________________.
f) ____________________________ was the pioneer country in the Great Navigations.
g) The Portuguese circumvented the ____________ continent to reach the Indies.
h) The place where Cabral landed in Bahia was ________________________________.
Per Rosiane Fernandes – Graduated in Letters and graduated in Special Education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
