Review: Explorers
The Middle Passage
Columbian Exchange
Navigation Tools & Ships
Exploration Potpourri
100

This Italian explorer who sailed for Spain intended to reach India and establish a new trade route, but instead landed in the “New World” in 1492.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

The Transatlantic Slave Trade was called this SHAPE, due to how many stops it took

What is a triangle?

100

The Native American population massively and rapidly fell due mostly to "this disease" brought by the Europeans

What is smallpox?

100

This device has a magnetized needle over a card showing four or eight points of direction.

What is a compass?

100

These are the three motivations for European exploration.

What are God, gold, and glory?

200

This Portuguese explorer’s crew led the first circumnavigation of the world.

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

200

The suffering of these captured people along the Middle Passage was ignored for economic benefit.

Who are Africans?

200

This crop originated in the New World, and became the single most important crop in promoting large population growth in Europe.

What are potatoes?

200

This device, one-fourth of a full circle, was used by sailors to measure the height of Polaris, the Pole star.

What is a quadrant?

200

This ship was faster than others of their time. They were favored by pirates.

What is a caravel?

300

This Chinese explorer and commander of huge treasure ships led voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, & East Africa.

Who is Zheng He?

300

Captured Africans were often previously enslaved by these people before being sold to Europeans

Who are Africans?

300

Europeans imported this crop from the New World, which over time killed more European people than war and disease combined

What is tobacco?

300

This device was used to record the direction a ship was sailing along with the corresponding speed of the ship.

What is a traverse board?

300

This ship was a favorite of explorers as it was cheap to crew.

What is a carrack ship?

400

This English sea captain was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. He helped defeat the Spanish Armada, securing English naval dominance.

Who is Sir Francis Drake?

400

This continent profited the most from the Triangle Trade system.

What is Europe?

400

Captured Africans were brought to the Caribbean to cultivate this crop against their will.

What is sugar?

400

This device was a navigation tool used for taking the altitude of the sun or stars while at sea.

What is a mariner's astrolabe?

400

This French explorer sought a western passage to Asia, and claimed modern-day Canada for France.

Who is Jacques Cartier?

500

This Spanish conquistador explored and conquered Mexico for Spain, and founded Mexico City.

Who is Hernan Cortes?

500

These were the countries who brought the most enslaved people to the “New World”. (Name three )

Who are Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, and Holland?

500

Native Americans transmitted this lethal sexually transmitted disease to Europeans.

What is syphillis?

500

This ship, shaped like a bathtub, was a supply ship in peace times, but a war ship in times of trouble.

What is a galleon ship?

500

These were the lasting effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Africa (Name three)

What are Generational Trauma, Colonialism, Economic Devastation, Lack of ethnic diversity, Lack of trust in institutions, Conflict, HIV & Disease, and Polygamy?


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