Exploration 1
Italian explorer that landed in the Bahamas in the new world while searching for a direct sailing route to India for the Queen of Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
English explorer in the early 17th century best known for his sailing expeditions in Canada.
Who is Henry Hudson?
(DBL Score) The native American people that built pyramids on the Yucatan Peninsula.
Who are the Mayans?
Honey Bees & Bananas originated from.
What is the Old World?
Corn & Tomatoes originated from.
What is the New World?
(Triple Score) Due to the Muslim control of Istanbul, free trade between the far east and Europe ended therefore forcing European leaders to seek out other trade routes.
What is a Direct sailing route to India?
(DBL Score) Carried out several expeditions to the Americas between 1578 and 1618. He was instrumental in the English colonisation of North America, having been granted a royal charter that allowed him to organise the first English colonies in Virginia.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
(DBL Score) The native American civilization that lived in the Andes mountains of South America and were experts in terrace farming.
Who are the Incas?
Vanilla & Chocolate originated from.
What is the New World?
Coffee & Sugar Cane originated from.
What is the Old World?
(DBL Score) The name that Constantinople was changed to after the Ottoman Turks conquered the city via use of cannon fire, beginning a new age of artillery warfare, forcing Europeans to search for more direct routes to India & China.
What is Istanbul?
Portuguese explorer and the first to reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
(Triple Score) Major Cause of Diseases that wiped out Millions of indigenous Americans.
What are germs & bacteria from European domestic animals?
The top crop for animals brought from the new world to the old world.
What is corn?
(DBL Score) The most destructive crop brought from the new world to the old world.
What is tobacco?
City at the southwestern edge of the Black Sea that had served as the capital of Christianity in Eastern Europe since the end of the Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
The Venetian explorer became known for his 1497 voyage to North America under the commission of Henry VII of England. Upon landing in what he called “New-found-land” in present-day Canada.
Who is John Cabot?
Spanish explorer whose expedition led to the fall of the great Aztec empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The top crop brought from the old world to the new world.
What is wheat?
The top crop for people brought from the new world to the old world.
What are potatoes?
(DBL Score) Italian explorer that sailed for the Republic of Florence, Italy of whom the Americas were named after he realized that the new world was two new continents, not Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The Portuguese explorer was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean, and organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Powerful Mesoamerican civilization centered in Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City) that dominated central Mexico.
Who are the Aztecs?
The massive, post-1492 transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and diseases between the New World (Americas) and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia).
What is the Columbian Exchange?
(DBL Score) The top 5 old world animals that revolutionized the new world.
What are Cows, Horses, Pigs, Chickens, Sheep?