Native American Regions
This is the Native American region that includes the location of modern-day FLORIDA.
What is the SOUTHEAST region?
These are the two countries that were considered 'superpowers' during the Age of Exploration.
What are Spain and Portugal?
This is the name of the land route to Asia that traders would use, prior to the Age of Exploration.
What is the Silk Road?
This is the name for lines of LATITUDE.
What are PARALLELS?
This is the first name of the explorer that North America is named after.
What is AMERIGO?
This is the Native American region that includes the location of the football team that defeated the Patriots in Superbowl LX.
What is the NORTHWEST COAST?
This is the spice that helped to preserve foods for far longer than previously possible, in addition to adding to their flavor.
What is SALT?
This is the name of the Italian explorer sent by England to find a shortcut to Asia.
Who is John Cabot?
(or Giovanni Caboto)
This is the name for the line that splits Earth into EASTERN and WESTERN hemispheres.
What is the PRIME MERIDIAN?
This is the cardinal (N-S-E-W) direction you would be facing if your right shoulder were pointing NORTH.
What is WEST?
This is the name for stone/clay apartment buildings, that the Native Americans of the Southwest region were known for.
What are PUEBLOS?
This is the only animal brought from the New World to the Old World.
What is turkey?
These are the LAST NAMES of the explorers who looked for the Northwest Passage -- in REVERSE ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
Who are: Hudson, Cartier, Cabot?
This is the ONE location BELOW that is most likely to have a TROPICAL CLIMATE.
A: 45 degrees N, 100 degrees W
B: 50 degrees S, 10 degrees E
C: 0 degrees, 35 degrees W
D: 80 degrees S, 120 degrees E
What is C?
(on the Equator)
This is the name of the Empire that blocked/ taxed access to the Silk Road, which drove the Age of Exploration.
What is the OTTOMAN EMPIRE?
This is the name of the Native American Region that was known for building dwellings with no walls.
What is the SOUTHEAST region?
Out of the below list, these are the THREE things that went from the Old World to the New World:
Potatoes, Pumpkins, Tomatoes, Horses, Smallpox, Maize, Pineapples, Turkey, Grapes, Vanilla
What are: Horses, Smallpox, Grapes?
This is the LAST NAME of the navigator who actually completed Magellan's expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Elcano?
This/these is/are the point(s) out of those BELOW, which are located WEST of the PRIME MERIDIAN:
A: 15 degrees N, 10 degrees E
B: 105 degrees S, 10 degrees E
C: 0 degrees, 15 degrees W
D: 15 degrees S, 10 degrees W
What are C and D?
This is the name for sailing against the wind, that was enabled by lateen sails.
What is TACKING?
This is the name of ONE of the Native American governments in the Eastern Woodlands region that each included numerous tribes, and had sophisticated governments and institutions.
What is the IROQUOIS confederacy or ALGONQUIN nation? (either is acceptable.)
This is the crop that went from the New World to the Old World, that was actually believed to be poisonous because people got sick from eating them on pewter (lead) plates.
What are TOMATOES?
This is the PRODUCT of:
- The number of ships Magellan STARTED out with on his expedition.
- The year Columbus made his first voyage.
- The number of countries Vespucci was sponsored by in his lifetime.
What is 14,920?
(5 x 1492 x 2)
These are the THREE points (out of those BELOW) that TOGETHER form an upright 'L' shape (ignoring curvature of the Earth):
A: 60 deg N, 115 deg W
B: 60 deg N, 125 deg W
C: 60 deg S, 115 deg E
D: 60 deg N, 145 deg E
E: 85 deg N, 125 deg W
What are A, B, and E?
This is the name of the LAYER OF THE EARTH that a compass depends on, to function.
What is the OUTER CORE?
(responsible for the Earth's magnetic field)