Something (as a need or desire) that causes a person to act.
What is a motive?
100
As an alternative to honey, this was a sweetener Europeans began to desire.
What is sugar?
100
This is the name given to the transfer of plants and animals across the Atlantic ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
This was a tool used by explorers to help them find direction when sailing.
What is a compass?
100
This country sponsored Columbus.
What is Spain?
200
A time in history (1400s through 1500s) when people from Europe traveled to faraway and unfamiliar places to learn more about them and to make maps of them.
What is the Age of Exploration?
200
Because sugar grew well in the warm climate of South America, Europeans decided to develop these large farms to grow their crop.
What are plantations?
200
These were the two places the Columbian Exchange took place between.
What are Europe and the Americas?
200
This plant, found in the New World, became an important cash crop for Europeans.
What is tobacco?
200
He wanted to find a route to Asia by sailing west.
What was Columbus’ goal?
300
Native Americans who lived in the Caribbean Islands before the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
Who are the Tainos?
300
Because the plantations required workers to help farm the land, Europeans first enslaved these people.
Who are the Native Americans?
300
These things you can grow provided new foods for people once traded.
What are plants?
300
This tool allowed explorers to navigate, whether it was day or night.
What is the astrolabe?
300
Columbus thought he had landed here.
What is the East Indies?
400
A system by which people worked without pay and had no freedom.
What is slavery?
400
The enslaved Native Americas caught diseases from the Europeans because they lacked this.
What is immunity?
400
This was the most important animal traded in the Columbian Exchange.
What is the horse?
400
These were the three motives for European exploration.
What were to find gold, spread religion, and claim land for their countries?
400
This is where Columbus landed (be specific).
Where is San Salvador (in the Caribbean Islands)?
500
A community ruled by another country, not by its own people.
What is a colony?
500
Once Native Americans began to die out from the epidemics that spread, Europeans began this.
What is the African Slave trade?
500
The trading of the horse helped Native Americans to improve these.
What are hunting techniques?
500
This New World plant provided explorers with healthier foods.
What is the potato?
500
The King and Queen wanted him to spread religion, bring back gold, and claim land.