Physical Geography
Pre-Columbian History
History
Columbian Exchange
Modern History (1800 - Today)
100

The sea in which the Caribbean islands are located.

What is the Caribbean Sea?

100

The place from where Native Americans walked to North America.

What is Asia?

100

The man who sailed the ocean blue in 1492.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

The continents mostly associated with the connection created by the Columbian Exchange.

What are the Americas, Europe, and Africa?

100

An engineering achievement which required a country to gain independence from Colombia with the support of the United States.

What is the Panama Canal?

200

It is the largest country in Central America and the Caribbean.

What is Mexico?

200

The name of the largest Aztec city.

What is Tenochtitlan?

200

He was the Spanish conquistador that overthrew the Aztec empire.

Who is Hernan Cortes?

200

The trade network between the Americas, Europe, and Africa (involved the enslavement of Africans).

What is the triangular trade?

200

The Caribbean country that became communist in 1959.

What is Cuba?

300

It is the largest Caribbean island.

What is Cuba?

300

An idea or object used by the Mayans to understand time.

What is the Mayan calendar?

300

The Aztec leader.

Who is Moctezuma? 

300

The disease that killed the majority of Native Americans.

What is smallpox?

300

The Spanish and French speaking countries that are located on the island of Hispaniola. 

What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?

400

The country directly north of Panama.

What is Costa Rica?

400

The group known for creating the first writing system in the Americas.

Who were the Zapotec?

400

The penisulares.

The people in New Spain that had been born in Spain (top of the social structure).

400

Chickens, horses and cows.

What are animals brought to the Americas by the Columbian Exchange?

400

The territory lost by Mexico in the Mexican Cession.

What is California and the Southwest of America (USA)?

500

The large peninsula in southern Mexico.

What is the Yucatan Peninsula?

500

Feathers of a tropical bird used by the Mayans in trade networks.

What are quetzal feathers?

500

To change the religion of someone into Christianity (done by Catholic Spanish priests in New Spain).

What is convert?

500

Because of the Columbian Exchange. (Questions may very)

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500

The term used to describe the spread of cultural traits.

What is cultural diffusion?

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