Vocabulary I
Grab Bag
Vocabulary II
Exploration
Africa
100
A system that forced people to work against their will and treated them like property.
What is Slavery?
100
1492
What is the year Columbus sailed the ocean blue (discovered the Americas)
100
Things from the past that are left for us to study.
What are artifacts?
100
Who explored for Spain and found the island currently known as San Salvador?
Christopher Columbus
100
The three African empires.
What are Mali, Ghana, Songhai?
200
A meeting between two people or two groups.
What is an Encounter?
200
What 3 worlds met during the age of exploration? "The Three Worlds Meet"
Europeans, American Indians, and Africans
200
A group of kingdoms or nations taken over and ruled by one leader.
What is an Empire?
200
What country did Christopher Columbus explore for?
Spain
200
The spice that was equal in value to gold during the age of the three African empires. 1 pound of gold= 1 pound of ?
What is salt?
300
The exchange of plants, animals, ideas, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean between the "Old World" and the "New World".
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
Approximately how many years ago did the Three Worlds Meet?
About 500 years ago
300
A person who makes a living buying and selling goods.
What is a Merchant?
300
Give two reasons that Christopher Columbus wanted to explore over the Atalntic Ocean.
To find a sea route to Asia To find wealth for himself and Spain To spread Christianity To find and settle new land for Spain
300
True or False: Drought lead to the rise of the African empires.
What is false?
400
A group of explorers from Norway who sailed to North America over 1000 years ago.
Who are the Vikings?
400
What country was Christopher Columbus from?
Italy
400
An early scientific toll used to determine how far north or south of the equator a ship was.
What is an Astrolabe?
400
What is one negative consequence of Columbus's findings?
Native Americans lost their lives and their land Many diseases were spread Africans were enslaved to work in the New World
400
True or False? One reason for the decline of the African empires was poor leadership.
What is true?
500
Someone who belongs to the religion of Islam.
Who is a Muslim?
500
Name two things that were exchanged during the Columbian Exchange.
Possible: animals, ideas, plants, diseases.
500
The name of one of the major religions of the world.
What is Islam?
500
What was one of Christopher Columbus's accomplishments?
Explored the islands in the Carribean Helped form Spanish colonies in teh New World Claimed new lands for Spain
500
What is the reason people began to trade across the Sahara Desert?
People on each side wanted goods from the other side.
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