Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Explorers & Exploration
Mixed bag of Test Topics--leftovers
Anything and Everything
100
Animals that are hunted--for fun or for food
What is game?
100
To travel completely around the Earth
What is circumnavigate/circumnavigation?
100
I am responsible for being the first European to discover Manhattan, and I have a river named after me now. I worked for a company in the Netherlands.
Who is Henry Hudson?
100
This is the region where the Iroquois are form.
What is the East?
100
This is the score that everyone in this class must achieve in order to get Mr. Kim to sing and dance to Gangnam Style
What is 80%?
200
A distant territory that remains subject to or closely associated with the parent country.
What is a colony?
200
Soldier-Explorers who worked for Spain
Who are conquistadors?
200
When he left, Columbus was looking for a route so that he could be a part of a trade of this good with Asia.
What are spices?
200
This is the type of house that the Iroquois live in.
What is a longhouse?
200
On Tuesday, voters in some states voted to legalize this.
What is marijuana or gay marriage?
300
A linear representation of events, put in chronological order.
What is a timeline?
300
The process of training an animal to be useful to humans
What is domestication?
300
I was the explorer who realized that the new lands that Columbus discovered wasn't actually Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300
The Mohegans (of the Mohegan Sun fame) are a part of this tribe of Native Americans
Who are the Algonquians?
300
This is the name of the winter storm that brought snow to Connecticut yesterday.
What is Athena?
400
Forcing/Convincing someone to change his/her ideas or beliefs
convert
400
Tax or payment given to a rule for protection
What is tribute?
400
I was another Frenchman who was looking for a "shortcut" to asia, but instead founded what is now Montreal.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
400
This is part of the United States, but if you're here, you can't vote in the presidential elections
What is Puerto Rico? (Guam, Northern Marinara Islands, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands)
500
A system of symbols, each with meanings of their own.
Glyphs
500
A governor selected by the king to manage a colony on the king's behalf
What is a viceroy?
500
I was a Portuguese sailor who sailed around Africa to get to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
500
This is the number of electoral college votes that presidential candidates compete over.
What is 538?
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