Vocabulary
Geography
People
"The New World"
"Indians"
100
This word means: "A person who travels to an unfamiliar area and learns more about it".
What is an "Explorer"?
100
Columbus set sail hoping to found a shorter route to this country.
What is India?
100
This man was a famous explorer that has a day celebrated for him in October each year.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
100
Columbus found this place and believed it was India.
What is North America (NOT the United States)?
100
Columbus found these people and believed they were Indians.
Who were Native Americans?
200
This word means: "A person that lives in a space."
What is "Inhabitant"?
200
Columbus sailed from this country to find a quicker route to India.
What is Spain?
200
This woman was the Queen of Spain and helped finance the trip that Columbus took from Europe to find India.
Who was Queen Isabella?
200
Columbus never actually set foot in this country.
What is the United States?
200
Columbus saw the "Indians" wearing this and seized it for his own.
What is gold?
300
This word means: "To take hold of suddenly and forcibly".
What is "Seize"?
300
Columbus sailed across this ocean on his journey.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
This man was the King of Spain during the time that Columbus sailed to find a quicker route to India.
Who was King Ferdinand?
300
The land that Columbus "found" was not actually new because these European explorers "found" it first.
Who were the Vikings?
300
Columbus brought "Indians" back with him to Europe to do what for him?
What is work as slaves in mines?
400
This word means: "A long journey by sea or space".
What is a "Journey"?
400
Columbus helped prove this revolutionary concept that many uneducated people did not believe.
What is the world is round?
400
This was the brother of Columbus, who also made maps.
Who was Bartolomeo?
400
Columbus landed on some islands in this sea (think about Jack Sparrow).
What is the Caribbean Sea?
400
This was something that Columbus and his crew brought to the "Indians", but it was not a good thing.
What is disease/sickness?
500
This word means: "A country or area that is under full or partial political control by another country".
What is "Colony"?
500
Columbus is from this country.
What is Italy?
500
This man was one of the first Europeans to land in North America (NOT Columbus).
Who was Leif Ericson?
500
Columbus became governor of this island, which later became Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
500
Columbus described the "Indians" he met on his journey as this.
What is kind/willing to share everything they owned?
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