Vocabulary and Terms
Geography
Key Ideas
Details
Explorers
100
This term refers to someone who is your friend. Someone who helps you is considered this.
What is "ally?"
100
This is the ocean that Cortes as well as Columbus sailed across to get to the New World.
What is "Atlantic Ocean?"
100
Fame, money, riches, and trade goods are all examples of this, which the explorers had.
What is "motivation?"
100
This is the name of the disease that killed many of the Native Americans.
What is "smallpox?"
100
This explorer is known for conquering the Aztecs of present day Mexico.
Who is "Hernando Cortes?"
200
The ________ of present day Mexico happened when Cortes came to this area.
What is "conquest?"
200
These five oceans make up the world in which we live.
What are "Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic Oceans."
200
There are many negative effects that happened to the Native Americans as a result of Exploration. Name two.
What is "becoming slaves, giving up religion, dying from smallpox, being killed?"
200
Columbus and Cortes both started their voyage from this country.
What is "Spain?"
200
This explorer is known for traveling across Asia, and bringing back goods to Venice.
Who is "Marco Polo?"
300
This term refers to traveling a long distance with a specific purpose in mind.
What is "expedition"
300
This refers to the series of routes and trails that people traveled to get valuable goods from Asia.
What is the "Silk Road?"
300
This is the name of the group of people that Hernando Cortes conquered.
What are "Aztecs?"
300
This holiday is not celebrated by many people because the man this holiday celebrates did not treat the Native Americans well.
What is "Columbus Day?"
300
This explorer is known for being the first European Explorer to find and inhabit the "New World."
Who is "Christopher Columbus?"
400
As more and more explorers came to the America's, they set up these, which mean a town ruled by a different country.
What is "colony?"
400
Christopher Columbus originally thought that he landed in this country, and named the Natives after it.
What is "India?"
400
These are two reasons why traveling along the Silk Road was challenging.
What is "violence and desert environment?"
400
This type of cloth was the most valuable during this time period, and Asia controlled it.
What is "silk?"
400
This explorer is known for searching for gold in a rich kingdom, which did not exist.
Who "Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?"
500
The European explorers brought horses, cattle, and smallpox to the New World. They took back corn, turkey, and beans. This exchange is came to be known as this.
What is "Colombian Exchange?"
500
There are seven continents that are in our world.
What are "North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and Antarctica?"
500
These are the three valuable trade goods that Asia had, that was wanted by Europeans.
What is "silk, spices, and tea?"
500
This is the name of the city that Coronado wanted to find, but this city did not exist.
What is "Cibola?"
500
Fame, money, and power was the motivation of this explorer from Spain.
Who is "Hernando Cortes?"
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