Explorers
European countries
Native Americans
Columbian Exchange
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Who was this explorer?
Christopher Columbus
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What country was Columbus representing in his great discovery?
Historians believe Christopher Columbus was from Italy. But Columbus sailed for Spain
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What did Christopher Columbus call the natives he met in the new world and why?
Indians, he believed he had landed in India
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These were brought to the New World (the Americas) from the Old World (Europe)
horses
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Who is Genghis Kan
Great Mongol leader who expanded the Mongol rule thought the world
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What are these and who did they belong to?
The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria (Christopher Columbus' ships)
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Many European colonizers and explorers came from this country
Spain
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In what country in the Americas can you find the site of these ancient Native pyramids?
Mexico
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These were sent from the New World (the Americas) back to the Old World (Europe)
Avocados
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give 2 reasons spices were so important in the old days
preservatives of food
medicine
taste
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Which European country colonized the part of Canada that is called Quebec?
France
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Many European colonizers and explorers came from this country
Portugal
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What is this called?
Tipi (also spelled: tepee or teepee)
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Columbian Exchange is named after who?
Christopher Columbus
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Who is this actor, and also formerly a musician?
Will Smith
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Who is Hernan Cortes
conqueror of the Aztec empire, brought wealth to Spanish crown
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Nation who helped establish what is now known as the 13 American colonies?
England
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What is the great Columbian exchange?
trade between Europe and the Americans brought coffee, horses & small pox to Americas. Took tomatoes, turkeys & corn back to Europe
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Europeans brought many diseases with them to the Americas (the New World). One of them was this one...
smallpox
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What building is this?
Hagia Sophia Mosque
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What is this Rock?
Plymouth Rock (where the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620)
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What country's flag?
Netherlands (also known as Holland)
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What is the middle passage?
crossing of Atlantic sea by thousands of slaves per ship in inhumane circumstances.
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"How you like them __________?" This was one of the fruits brought to the New World (the Americas) from the Old World (Europe).
apples
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Main prophet in Muslim religion
Mohammed