Costs and Benefits (Answer either Europeans or Native Americans
Miscellaneous (Who knows what the category will be?)
Which Way Did He Go?
100
The year Columbus and his three shipped sailed.
What is 1492?
100
Explored and claimed for the Dutch much of what is now the state of New York.
Who is Henry Hudson?
100
They were a powerful civilization located in modern day Mexico.
Who are the Aztecs?
100
Because the Europeans brought this from their countries, MANY Native Americans died.
What is disease and illnesses?
100
First to sail West to reach Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
This was the MAIN reason that Columbus sailed West from Europe.
What is to find a more direct water route to Asia?
200
First Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
200
This animal did not exist in the Americas until the Spanish brought them over.
What are horses?
200
The three motivations for European exploration.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
200
English explorer who landed on the West coast of Canada where fish were plentiful!
Who is John Cabot?
300
This is the country that Christopher Columbus was from.
What is Italy?
300
Explorered and claimed for Spain what is now the state of Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
300
This civilization mummified the dead, and allowed other tribes to join their empire.
Who are Incas?
300
This device was used to navigate the seas, tell time, and had many other functions.
What is the astrolabe?
300
First European to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunuz de Balboa?
400
This European nation sponsered Columbus' expedition across the Atlantic in 1492.
What is Spain?
400
His crew mutinied and set him and others out to sea.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
They were the "conquerors" from Spain.
Who were the conquistadors?
400
The exchange of foods, animals, culture, ideas, and disease.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
Sailed up a river in what is now New York.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
This group of Europeans reached North America about 500 years before Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
500
The first English explorer to reach North America.
Who is John Cabot?
500
These were the three things that led to the fall of many Native American tribes and civilizations.
What are "guns, germs and steel?
500
In the late 1400's Europeans were anxious to find a route to the Indies. Some felt like they could sail West rather than East. This is what they were looking for.
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
Discovered and named Florida while searching for the "Fountain of Youth"