Vocabulary
Exploration
Imports
Motives
Archeology
100
People who travel to new places to learn what those places are like and report their findings to their countrymen.
What is Explorers?
100

A tool to guide explorers in the open sea and tell them where they are located. 

What is an astrolabe?

100
The most valuable items explorers brought back to Europe.
What is gold and silver?
100
Putting this in the soil is a symbol that the territory has been claimed by the country represented.
What is a flag?
100
A technology that uses sound to locate objects sunken in the ocean.
What is sonar?
200
The lands in the Western Hemisphere where the land was "new" to Europeans, but the Native Americans already lived there.
What is the New World?
200
A light in the night sky that helped the sailors find their way.
What is the North Star?
200
A popular cash crop that many Europeans quickly felt they could not live without.
What is tobacco?
200

A belief that the Europeans wanted to spread to every part of the world.


DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What is Christianity?

200
A method used to mark off the area within an excavation site.
What is a grid?
300

A time period in the 1400's and 1500's when Europeans traveled to faraway and unfamiliar places to learn about them and make maps of these places.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What is the Age of Exploration?

300
A tool that showed sailors the direction they were sailing in.
What is a compass?
300
A plant that Italians chose to grow and add to their diets.
What is tomato?
300
European countries competed with each other to claim the most of.
What is land?
300
Artifacts made from this lasts many years.
What is metal?
400
Rock or earth from which metal can be taken.
What is ore?
400
Once sailors knew this, they could navigate in any direction they wanted.
What is north?
400
A seed that was not available in Europe until the Age of Exploration and could be eaten in many ways such as roasting, boiling, popping or grinding into flour.
What is corn?
400
Sponsored sailors to travel to unknown parts of the world in hopes of winning over more people to their kingdom.
What is kings and queens?
400
Scientists who study human artifacts to learn about peoples who lived long ago.
What is archeologists?
500
A product that is grown in large amounts to sell and earn money.
What is a cash crop?
500
Drawings of the shapes and bodies of water all over the world.
What is a map?
500
A fruit the Portuguese transported and planted in many tropical parts of the world.
What is pineapple?
500

Religions that Europeans belonged to.

What is Roman Catholic or Protestant?

500

To understand the way of life of cultures who lived hundreds of years ago.


DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What is the purpose of archeologists' excavations?

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