The storytellers in Mali passed on traditions and stories from one generation to the next.
Who are the griots?
100
This continent is where the explorers were from.
What is Europe?
100
These three resources are used to produce all goods and services.
What are human, natural and capital resources?
100
Spain sponsored these two European explorers.
Who are Christopher Columbus and Juan Ponce de Leon?
100
He was born in Virginia. He is known as the "Father of our Country". He helped put the basic principals into practice for our new nation.
Who is George Washington?
200
A government where people vote for a smaller group of citizens to make their rules and laws for everyone
What is representative democracy?
200
This famous city in Mali was important because it contained a famous library with Greek and Roman books.
What is Timbuktu?
200
The human resources who make the goods and services that we use every day.
What are producers?
200
This was the motivation for Christopher Columbus' exploration.
What is finding the western sea route to Asia?
200
He was a leader who helped develop our country by writing the Declaration of Independance. He became the third president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
The games of today are modeled after the games from Ancient Greece.
What is the Olympics?
300
These imaginary lines are used to create the 4 hemispheres.
What are the equator and the prime meridian?
300
Like when the Ancient Greeks and Romans focused on building ships, just like we do in Virginia today.
What is specialization?
300
He was the first European to land in Florida and give Spain a claim near St. Augustine.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
300
This is another name for a republican form of government. The idea for this type of government came from the Romans.
What is representative democracy?
400
These two architectural styles from Greece and Rome were used in the Parthenon and Colosseum and are still used today.
What are columns and arches?
400
This imaginary line divides the globe into eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
400
The people of Mali traded or bartered these two items.
What is gold and salt?
400
He arrived at Jamestown, reached the fall line of the James River and claimed land for England.
Who is Christopher Newport?
400
These are the 3 basic principals which are held by all Amerians. Thomas Jefferson said that we are all born with these privileges and they cannot be taken away.
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
500
These two human characteristics were common to Ancient Greece, Rome and Mali.
What are farmers and traders?
500
Jacques Cartier explored this region when he went to Quebec.
What is Canada?
500
The activities that satisfy people's needs and wants.
What are services?
500
This is the direction that all of the explorers sailed to reach the New World.
What is west?
500
This basic principal means that all people should be treated fairly. It is what Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and Rosa Parks fought for.