The Vikings were from this region in northern Europe that includes Norway.
What is Scandinavia?
100
Helped sailors follow other sailors’ routes in unfamiliar waters.
What are maps?
100
Hernan Cortes led an expedition to end this empire after hearing about its riches.
Who were the Aztecs?
100
We celebrate Columbus Day in this month.
What is October?
100
The movement of people, animals, plants, cultures, and even diseases betweent the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
Eric the Red's Son who was likely among the first Europeans to land in North America.
Who was Leif Ericsson?
200
Helped sailors know which direction they were headed.
What is the magnetic compass?
200
Ferdinand Magellan's crew was the first to do this.
What is circumnavigate, or sail completely around, the world?
200
**DOUBLE POINTS**
Columbus asked this King and Queen of Spain to fund his voyage to find a safer route to Asia.
Who is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
200
These foods traveled from the Americas to Europe during the Columbian Exchange.
Any of the following:
What is corn?
What are peanuts?
What are potatoes?
What is squash?
What are pineapples?
300
In this year, Leif Ericsson founded a settlement in what is today Canada.
When was 1001?
300
Helped sailors know how far north or south of the equator they were.
What is the astrolabe?
300
This Spanish explorer heard about a fountain of youth and was probably the first European to ever visit Florida.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
300
In _____, Colubus sailed the ocean blue.
What is 1492?
300
Animals brought from Europe to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange include ____.
Any of the following:
What are horses?
What are pigs?
What are chickens?
What is cattle?
400
After Eric the Red left Iceland he went to this country.
What is Greenland?
400
The Portuguese shipbuilders designed a smaller, lighter boat with triangular sails to better control the wind.
What is a caravel?
400
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado heard about this rich kingdom filled with gold, silver, and jewels. It did not turn out to be real.
What was Cibola?
400
Columbus mistakenly thought they landed near India, so he called this tribe Indians.
Who were the Tainos?
400
**DOUBLE POINTS**
The two groups of people who suffered the most during the Columbian Exchange.
Who were the American Indians? Who were Africans?
500
This artifact proved that Vikings settled in North America.
What is the butternut?
(other answers: What is iron? What are the Viking ruins?)
500
The magnetic compass was invented in this country.
What is China?
500
The oldest town established by Europeans in the United States.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
500
This was one reason for Columbus's voyages.
Any of the following:
What is to spread Christianity?
What is to find a route to Asia by sailing west?
What is to start new settlements?
What is to find gold and spices?
500
This animal brought from Europe had an enormous impact on some American Indian cultures because they could not travel farther and search of food and hunt their prey more easily.