Terms
Odds and Ends
Artifacts
Reasons for Exploring
True or False
100
These were brave men who sailed small ships across large oceans in search of new lands.
What are explorers?
100
What was the largest cash crop for the colonies?
What is tobacco?
100
Explorers used these drawings of bodies of land and water to help them reach new lands.
What are maps?
100
The Europeans were motivated to find this artifact and bring it back to the Europe in order to build it's country's treasury.
What is gold and silver?
100
Europeans generally did not bring back anything of importance or value from the New World.
What is false?
200
A crop grown in large quantities for sale to other people.
What is a cash crop?
200
What kind of maps included features like rocky shores and safe ports?
What are ocean maps?
200
This leafy plant was brought back from the New World. Many people became addicted to smoking it.
What is tobacco?
200
In order to spread Christianity to the New World the explorers were motivated to use this artifact.
What is the Bible?
200
Explorers were able to reach new lands because of improved navigational tools.
What is true?
300
The name that the Europeans gave the Americas, even though Native Americans had been here for thousands of years.
What is the New World?
300
This artifact was used to claim new land for Europe.
What is the flag?
300
This helped Europeans spread Christianity to people of the New World.
What is the bible?
300
This technology had a small magnetic needle that always points to the North.
What is the compass?
300
Europeans were motivated to explore new lands because they wanted to convert local people to Christianity or to claim land for their country.
What is True?
400
Rock or earth from which metal can be taken.
What is ore?
400
A technology that uses sound to locate sunken ships.
What is sonar?
400
Explorers used this to help determine the direction they were sailing, even in fog or total darkness.
What is a compass?
400
The three new technologies we talked about in this chapter are...
What are maps, compass, and astrolabe?
400
Maps for navigation show where winds blow and ocean currents flow.
What is True?
500
The period in the late 1500s when Europeans started searching for lands they did not know.
What is the Age of Exploration?
500
Explorers used this navigational tool to determine where they were located as they sailed to or from the New World.
What is the astrolabe?
500
Give two of the three new foods that the Europeans found in the new world.
What are corn, tomatoes, and pineapple.
500
What are the three reasons why explorers would use or get an artifact?
What is 1) a motivation for exploring, 2) technology for exploring, 3) New World product
500
Planting a flag on a new land means, "My country and my people give this land to you."
What is False?
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