Vocab
What is the name for large farms that grow just one kind of crop, making huge profits for their owners?
What are Plantations
What is the name of the document which grants someone permission to start a colony?
Bonus 100pt, name ANY colony and it's originating country
What is a Charter
+100 bonus if ANY settlement/colony of Portugal,Spain, England, France, or Dutch are named with correct country
Who sailed for Spain and 'discovered' America for Spain?
Bonus 50pts where was he from originally?
Who is Christopher Columbus
+50pt = From (Genoa) Italy
Where was the first French Colony located?
Bonus 100pts, what was its name?
What is Canada
+100pt = Quebec
A full blooded European who was born in Spain that has control of an American territory was called?
Bonus 100pts, what would their child be called if they too were full blood Spanish but born in New Spain?
What is a Peninsulares
+100 = Creoles
What is the name of the system that gave (Spanish) settlers the right to tax Native Americans or make them work?
Bonus 100pts per the 5 parts named of the system
Extra 100 if in order
What is the Encomienda System
100pt = Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Mulatos, NA + African slaves
+100 more if given in that order.
What is the name of a Portuguese ship that used triangular sails to sail against the wind?
+100 bonus give the NAME of this kind of boat
What is a caravel
+100 = Nina or Pinta Christopher Columbus' boats.
Who was Viking that landed in present-day Canada in the year 1000?
+100pt where did he (Vikings) come from?
Who was Leif Eriksson
+100pts = Sweden, Norway, or Finland
Who were the first Europeans to make contact with North America?
Who were the Vikings
A European, Native American mixed person would be called a?
What is a Mestizo
What is the name of the sea route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic directly to the Pacific Ocean?
Bonus 250pts, what's the truth about this sea route?
What is the Northwest Passage
250 pts = The route doesn't exist, never found, not real.
What is the device used to determine location based on the position of the stars called?
Bonus 100pts = what European country invented it
What is an Astrolabe
+100pts = Portugal
Who was the Priest who wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity by treating them in a better manner?
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas
What region did Portugal and Spain conquer the most land?
What is meso, and South America
Name the 5 European countries that participated in exploration
Who are Portugal, Spain, England, France, and Netherlands.
What is the imaginary line called which splits the Atlantic to divide Spanish + Portuguese territories found in America?
Bonus 300 which country got which side?
What is the Line of Demarcation
Portugal got all land East of the line = 150 pts
Spain got all land West of the line = 150 pts
What are the names of reformers who went against some of the Catholic Church's practices?
Who are Protestants
Who was the conquistador who conquered the Incan empire?
Bonus 100pt what did he rename the territory he claimed?
Who was Francisco Pizarro
+100 bonus = Peru
What region was claimed most by England, France, and the Dutch?
What is North America
Name an explorer from one of each of the European countries that explored America.
+200 for each explorer and correct country
Who are
Portugal = Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama
Spain = Christopher Columbus, Francisco Pizarro, Hernan Cortez
England = John Cabot, Henry Hudson
France = Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Giovanni de Verazzano
Dutch = Henry Hudson
What religious movement began as an effort to reform the Catholic Church?
What was the Protestant Reformation
What was the agreement between Spain + Portugal called where the Line of Demarcation was moved slightly west?
Bonus 300 points how many miles west did the line move?
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas
800 miles = 300 extra points.
Who was the conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire?
Bonus 100pts what did he rename it?
Who was Herna Cortez
+100 = New Spain
What is the correct chronological order of European exploration to the Americas?
What is Portugal, Spain, England, France, & Dutch
Put the explorer is order of who explored first.
Giovanni da Verazzano
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
Henry Hudson
What is
John Cabot
Giovanni da Verazzano
Henry Hudson
Jacques Cartier