Vocab U1/U2
The Southern Tip of Africa
What is Africa
The widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations and ideas between the New World and the Old World
What is the Columbian Exchange
This show follows around a group of 5 characters who solve mysteries
What is Scooby Doo
This person had the idea for separation of powers in government
What is Charles Montesquieu
This is the largest country in the world by land size
What is Russia
Being able to sail around the world
What is to circumnavigate
A philosophical, intellectual and cultural movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that included advancements in science, math, history, philosophy, and a number of other areas.
What is the Enlightenment
This comic book character is known as the First Avenger
What is Captain America
This person is credited with inventing the modern lightbulb
What is Thomas Edison
What is Spongebob Squarepants
The imaginary LONGITUDE line around the Earth that separates Earth into two hemispheres East and West.
What is the Prime Meridian
The action of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work and making use of and benefiting from natural resources
What is exploitation
This movie has characters such like a lion, tin man, scarecrow and flying monkeys
What is the Wizard of Oz
This NBA player won 6 championships and also tried to play professional baseball
What is Michael Jordan
This team has the most major league baseball championships with 27
What is the New York Yankees
The study of the world, its people and the landscapes they create.
What is Geography
The idea that governments have a responsibility to hold up their end of the social contract. This idea said that if a government fails to hold up their end, then citizens would no longer agree to be governed and they would have the right to revolt.
What is consent of the governed
This show has characters such as Lucas, Will, Steve, Max and Nancy
What is Stranger Things
This person created the scientific equation of E = Mc2
What is Albert Einstein
What is Michael Phelps
New technology that featured a way to measure the angles of the sun and stars in order to determine latitude and longitude.
What is the astrolabe
A trading system in which the government has control over all trade and economic activity. The idea was that countries would gain wealth by increasing exports and trade. This allowed for mother countries to force the colonies to trade them all their goods/resources.
What is mercantilism
Christian Bale played this character in a famous trilogy as a famous vigilante
What is Batman / the Dark Knight
This person was the 16th president of the United States
What is Abraham Lincoln
This is the 8th planet from the Sun
What is Neptune