Funsies
What is my favorite color?
Purple
Where did Columbus discover first?
The Caribbean
What impact did Columbus have on the Indigenous peoples of the West Indies?
Genocide
What word describes the biological characteristics of humans?
Race.
What year did Columbus find the New World?
1492.
Where is South Carolina located in relation to trade routes?
Triangle Trade (800 points)
What were the explorers trying to find when they found the new world?
A faster route to Asia.
What happened to Africa when all the men were stolen?
Political and economic instability.
What word describes the cultural background and decent of human beings?
Ethnicity.
What part of the world did Marco Polo explore?
Eurasia.
What is the best sport?
Lacrosse or Baseball
What was the name of Columbus' boat?
The Santa Maria.
Which word describes the discrimination of different biological features in humans?
Racism.
Who discovered North America first?
Leif Erikson (a Viking)
What is mercantilism?
maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy (+600)
What country started the Age of Exploration by sending the first dedicated explorer?
Spain
What was one of the most devastating things explorers brought to the New World.
Diseases (answers can vary)
Which word describes the conquering and occupation of other lands as one's nation's own.
Colonization.
What explorer committed genocide against the Aztec Empire?
Herman Cortez.
What's Mr. Bhatta's favorite color?
I actually don't know lol
What was the name of the tribe that Columbus slaughtered?
The Taino Peoples.
What did the age of exploration establish?
Which word describes the idea that one's race is superior to another's?
Ethnocentrism.
Which explorer exposed the genocide of the Indigenous people in the West Indies
Bartolome de Las Casas