An outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people.
What is an epidemic?
100
The Silk Road connected which two continents?
What are Europe and Asia?
100
Name an invention that Marco Polo saw while he was in China.
What is text, printing, or gunpowder?
100
This is who said he could sail from Spain going West, cross the Pacific Ocean, and make it back to Spain.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
This is what the Spanish Explorers named the new land that they discovered in present-day Mexico and North America.
What is New Spain?
200
A tool that measures the height of the sun above the horizon.
What is an astroblade?
200
This means the same as Renaissance.
What is rebirth?
200
Did Marco Polo or Columbus start getting other Europeans interested in travel to Asia?
Who is Marco Polo?
200
Which of the following did Spanish explorers build when they reached the Americas:
a. Religious settlements called missions
b. Cities of gold
c. The city of Tenochtitlan
d. The Fountain of Youth
What is (a) Religious settlements called missions.
300
Circumnavigate means to ______________.
What is to sail completely around something.
300
This is a group of people and animals who travel together. This was how early explorers traveled to cross the Sahara dessert.
What is a caravan?
300
What did the Portuguese explorers find that made traveling to Asia much quicker?
What is a sea route around Africa?
300
This is the empire that Cortes and the conquistadors took over (conquered)
What is the AZTEC empire?
300
This is the oldest European city built in the United States.
What is St. Augustine, Florida.
400
This is a large ranch or farm often with a village or church.
What is a hacienda?
400
The Columbian Exchange involved _______ between the ___________ and ____________ hemispheres.
What is trade of plants and animals between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
400
Who did Christopher Columbus have to convince to pay for his voyage?
Who are Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand?
400
This is why the Spanish explorers were amazed by the city of Tenochtitlan. It was different than any European city because of these reasons.
What is built in the middle of a lake or twice as big as any European city.
400
This is how the Spanish colonists treated the Native American Indians.
What is forcing them to work the farms and in mines (slavery)?
500
This is a Spanish Soldier who helped conquer native civilizations in Central and North America.
What is a conquistador?
500
This is a group of people and animals who travel together. This was how early explorers traveled to cross the Sahara dessert.
What is a caravan?
500
What did the people who agreed to pay for Columbus' voyage hope he would find on his journey?
What are spices?
500
This was the main reason Spanish rulers sent explorers to the Americas.
What is searching for gold and spice.
500
This is why priests were sent with the European explorers to the Americas.
What is to help the spread their religion and set up missions?