Building Vocabulary
The period when Europeans first colonized the Americas and sought new routes to Asia.
What is the Age of Exploration?
Scientists mostly examine these to study the Age of Exploration.
What is artifacts?
This artifact was a valuable cash crop in the 1400s.
What is a tobacco plant?
This object helped explorers determine latitude using the position of the sun and other stars.
What is an astrolabe?
This teacher loves teaching, jokes, songs, dancing, reading, and yoga?
Who is Mrs. Franco?
A person who travels in search of new geographical information.
Explorers planted flags in order to do this for their country.
What is claim land?
This artifact was brought to the Americas from Europe to find the cardinal directions.
What is a compass?
Who are the Native Americans?
This teacher teaches 8th-grade U.S. History.
Who is Mr. Edwards?
When Europeans first colonized this place they referred to it as the "New World."
What is the Americas?
Gold and silver was important to Europeans for this reason.
What is measuring wealth?
This artifact was found in the Americas, mined by Native Americans, and stolen by the Spanish.
What is gold?
Explorers used this object to claim land on behalf of their country.
What is a flag?
We do not have permission to sit here unless Mrs. Franco says the cue word.
What are comfy spots?
What is a cash crop?
Farmers do this with a cash crop.
This artifact was carried by explorers, priests, and soldiers to the Americas from Europe?
What is the Bible?
What are new foods?
This is where all papers are turned in.
What is the turn in bin?
This early scientific tool was used to observe the position of the sun and stars.
What is an astrolabe?
Sailors used these to tell latitude.
What is astrolabes?
This artifact was brought to the Americas from Europe with blank spots which made navigation difficult.
What is a map?
This object was brought to the Americas to share and spread the Christian faith with Native Americans.
What is the Bible?
This is the name of our hand sanitizer.
Who is Jeffrey?