Civilizations/Other
Name the 2 countries that border the United States of America?
What are Canada and Mexico?
Fill-in-the-blank: Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in _____.
What is 1492?
This type of place is officially controlled by another country.
What is a territory?
The three branches of government in the United States.
What are judicial, legislative, and executive?
This person is the Governor of Indiana.
Who is Mike Braun?
Christopher Columbus represented this country on his voyages.
What is Spain?
More reliable food sources meant ________ survival rates across Europe and Asia. (higher or lower)
What is higher?
This type of government combines parts of both presidential and parliamentary systems.
What is a mixed system?
This city is the capital of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
Reformation Day is October 31. How many theses did Luther write?
What is 95?
The three main civilizations that were considered "Architects of the Americas" in Latin America.
What are the Inca, the Aztec, and the Maya?
The massive, global transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people following Christopher Columbus's voyages in 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
In this system of government, people vote directly for the President.
What is Presidential?
This city is the capital of Argentina.
What is Buenos Aires?
The capital of Illinois.
What is Springfield?
In order to farm in very wet regions, the Aztecs made small islands out of this.
What is mud?
Provide 3 examples of crops that were transported from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange.
Acceptable Answers: Wheat, Rice, Sugarcane, Bananas, Coffee, Citrus Fruits, Olives
In this system of government, people vote for lawmakers who choose a Prime Minister.
What is Parliamentary?
A flat-topped highland area is this type of geographical feature.
What is a plateau?
This word actually becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.
What is short?
The name of Christopher Columbus' ships.
What are the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
Provide 3 examples of crops that were transported from the Americas to Afro-Eurasia during the Columbian Exchange.
Acceptable answers: Corn, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Cacao, Vanilla, Peanuts, Squash
The type of government defined as: a political and economic system where the community or the government owns all property, farms, and factories instead of individual people.
What is communism?
The term is defined as the "broad term that refers to the shared cultural or national background that a group of people have in common."
What is ethnicity?
When Indiana was a territory, this city was its first capital.
What is Vincennes?