What's that Word?
Vocabulary Terms?
Clues and More Clues!
Who's that European Explorer?!
Tricky answers, Tricky questions!
100
A cruel system in which people are bought and sold and made to work without pay______________
What is slavery
100
An outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly and affects many people______________
What is an epidemic?
100
A Spanish word for conquerer
What is a Conquistador?
100
This explorer found the Silk Road that connected Europe and Asia. He wanted to find silk and spices. He was an Italian merchant and wrote a book about his travels.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
Member of Ferdinand Magellan’s crew were the first people to _______________ the world.
What is circumnavigate?
200
The money a business has left over after all its expenses have been paid_________
What is a profit
200
Someone who buys and sells goods to make a living. Marco Polo went to China because he was a merchant____________
What is merchant?
200
To change a religion or belief_____________.
What does it mean to convert?
200
This explorer wanted to find a new route to Asia. He reached the Bahamas and thought he was in India, and named the people living there Indians. He reached Cuba and Hispaniola. He returned to Europe with plants and animals no one had ever seen.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
Many Portuguese traders forced Africans into _________and sold them in Europe.
What is slavery?
300
A small community of people living in a new place____________.
What is a settlement?
300
11. When you take a journey in order to achieve a goal, you are going on a
What is a expedition?
300
A violent uprising against a ruler______________.
What is a revolt?
300
His voyage proved people could sail around the world. He also named the Pacific Ocean, because he thought it looked “peaceful”.
Who is Magellan?
300
The _________of New Spain was started in present-day Mexico and the United States.
What is colony?
400
9. An outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly and affects many people______________
What is an epidemic?
400
A community where priests taught Christianity_________________.
What is a mission?
400
The use of scientific knowledge to do things better and more rapidly________________
What is technology?
400
A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs. He captured all of Mexico and renamed it New Spain.
Who was Cortes?
400
Merchants traveled in the Sahara Desert to find products and ideas from Africa to bring back to Europe. They traveled in this for safety. A group of people and animals who travel together_______________
What is a caravan?
500
10. To sail completely around something_______________________.
What is circumnavigate?
500
The science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship_________________
What is navigation?
500
The movement of plants, animals and people between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres is known as the _____________ _____________.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
500
After the arrival of the Europeans in North American, Native Americans' lives changed in several ways. Ways their lives changed are:
What is they converted to Roman Catholicism and moved on to missions? What is they learned to speak Spanish? What is many died from diseases/epidemics? What is many were forced into slavery/died from being overworked? What is they learned new farming methods?
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