New World, New Things
Tools for Travel
Why the New World, You Ask?
Potpourri 2
Potpourri 2
100
A crop grown in the New World and was consider medicine.
What is Tobacco
100
Tools used to find the New World
What are compasses and astrolabes
100
The reason explorers placed flags in land.
What is to claim land
100
North America, South America, and Central America
What are the Americas
100
The reason for claiming land.
What is to gain power
200
Crops that were valuable and popular. These crops made money for those who sold them.
What are cash crops
200
Uses a magnetic needle that always points North to give directions.
What is a compass
200
The reason Indians were forced to mine as slaves.
What is to find gold and silver for the Spanish.
200
The New World was not originally on this
What is a map
200
Flags are symbols of this.
What is power and pride
300
Types of food found in the New World.
What is corn, chocolate, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, and squash.
300
Drawings of bodies of water and land. Were updated as new land was found.
What are maps
300
The Bible was used for this.
What is to spread Christianity to the New World.
300
Mrs. Arreguin's Favorite Color
What is black
300
Scientists that study sunken ships
What are archeologists
400
This is what the explorers gained from finding the new foods.
What is a healthier diet.
400
Used to measure the latitude of a ship and to determine how far North or South the ship is from the equator.
What is an Astrolabe
400
The reasons the explorers were sent to the New World
What is to claim land, spread religion, and make money.
400
When the Age of Exploration began
What is the 1400s
400
The type of travel tool that is most accurate
What is a compass
500
Used as money
What is gold and silver
500
A tool used to find directions, difficult to use when foggy
What is an Astrolabe
500
Where the explorers were headed when they found the New World
What is Asia
500
The reason why the New World is not a good name.
What is Native Americans already living in America
500
Where explorers brought the goods back to
What is Europe
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