T2 Modern World History Jeopardy

Africa

100

Most enslaved people were captured from which region of Africa during the Transatlantic slave trade? West Africa, North Africa, East Africa, South Africa

West Africa

200

Name three African Empires studied during the African Civs presentations

Answers vary (Songhai, Mali, Zimbabwe, etc.)

300

Which West African city in modern-day Mali was known as the capital of the Gold trade?

Timbuktu

400

This man is known as the richest person in history, since he dominated the Gold Trade in Mali.

Mansa Musa

500

According to Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., about 45% of all enslaved people in the Transatlantic slave trade were taken from what is today this country:

Angola

Name That Explorer

100

This Italian explorer sailed the ocean blue in 1492

Christopher Columbus

200

This Portuguese sailor was the first European to sail to India

Vasco Da Gama

300

This Portuguese sailor led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe in 1519, although he died along the way

Ferdinand Magellan

400

This Spanish conquistador led the conquest of the Aztec empire in Mexico in the early 16th century

Hernan Cortes

500

The Americas are named for this early Italian explorer

Amerigo Vespucci

The Columbian Exchange

100

Name three plants that moved from Old World to New

Answers vary (coffee, sugar, banana, etc.)

200

Name three plants that moved from New World to Old

Answers vary (tomato, potato, corn, etc.)

300

Name one livestock animal that was present in the New World before European arrival

Llama, Alpaca

400

Which STD originated in the New World and spread to the Old?

Syphillis

500

Think of one dish or beverage that combines both New World and Old World items

Answers vary

Examples: Mocha (coffee and chocolate)

Pizza (tomato and cow cheese)

Absolutism in Europe

100

Define Absolutism 

A system of government in which a King/Queen/Emperor/Emperess has absolute sovereignty.

200

Which King of France, known as the Sun King, is considered the prime example of an absolutist monarch?

Louis XIV

300

Name one humiliating rule at Versailles

Answers vary (scratch at doors, bow to King's portrait, etc.)

400

What do you call the idea that monarchs are chosen by God, and are his representative on Earth?

Divine Right (theory)

500

What was the name of the conflict in which British Parliament fought a war to remove Britain's absolute monarch, Charles I

The English Civil War

Know Your Teacher

100

What city is Mr. Potter from?

Seattle

200

What foreign language does Mr. Potter speak?

French

300

Where did Mr. Potter spend one school year teaching English?

Martinique (French Caribbean)

400

What were Mr. Potter's two majors in college?

History and French

500

How old is Mr. Potter?

27