Geography!!!!!
Located in central New York, this city was once home to salt mines and is the county seat of Onondaga county
What is Syracuse?
pizza, pasta and cannolis all originated in this country
What is Italy?
Jamestown settlers originally came to the new world in search of this
What is gold?
This holiday, which falls on the fourth Thursday of November, originally began as a Pilgrim harvest festival
What is Thanksgiving?
This explorer sailed the ocean blue in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Home to the chopped cheese sandwich, decent pizza, bagels, and public transit, and the largest school district in the country this city has an average population density of 26,00 people per square mile
What is New York City?
The capital of this southeast Asian country is Bangkok. It is home to majestic animals such as elephants and monkeys. Its nickname is the Land of a thousand smiles?
What is Thailand?
The young daughter of a Native American chief, she played a crucial role in Native-European relations. She would often accompany settlers when they would go to trade with indigenous peoples
Who is Pocahontas?
This group of Native Americans lived in the Plymouth area for thousands of years before the Pilgrim arrival
Who are the Wampanoag?
This term means conquerer. These people were contracted by the Spanish crown to find wealth and riches in the New World and seize the land from the people who lived on it. Hernan Cortes and Fransisco Pizzarro are examples of these
What is a conquistador?
These areas are often classified by their high population density, meaning people live very close together
What is a city/what is an urban area?
Started in the South Bronx as a form of political resistance, this genre of music is one of the most popular today. It is often very fast paced
what is rap/hip hop?
The presence of these made Jamestown a very hard place to live because these spread diseases such as malaria.
What are mosquitoes?
This ship carried the Pilgrims across the Atlantic to the New World in 1620
What is the Mayflower?
This European nation originally settled New York City. Street names like Amsterdam Avenue pay homage to the presence of this nation
What is the Netherlands?
This southwestern state known for bbq has been a part of a Spanish colony, the country of Mexico, and its own independent nation before joining as a state of the United States of America/
What is Texas?
The people in this region of the world are unique in that they are descendants of indigenous peoples, African slaves, and Spanish or Portuguese conquerers
What is Latin America?
What is South/Central America
Country names also acceptable
The production of this food crop helped Jamestown colonists to survive
What is corn?
The pilgrims were originally headed here before being blown off track and landing in Plymouth
What is Jamestown/What is Virginia?
This European nation established fur trading posts throughout what is today the Midwestern United States. They did not seek to conquer the indigenous but sought to work with them.
What is France?
Often thought of as an underwater earthquake, these storms can actually be caused by an earthquake, volcanic eruption or other imbalance in the water
What is a tsunami
These people are known for walking fast and driving aggressively. Most ride trains to work. They are fueled by $1 coffee in the morning and lamb over rice with plenty of white sauce in the afternoon
What is a New Yorker?
The production of this cash crop led to Virginia becoming a successful wealthy colony
what is tobacco?
Before coming to the New World, the Pilgrims left England for this region of the Netherlands
What is Holland?
This treaty separated the World between Spain and Portugal. As a result of this treaty, Portugal established a colony at Brazil in the Americas as well as colonies in Asia. Spain was able to colonize most of South and central America
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?