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100
This term describes countries ore areas controlled by a more powerful country, also known as a mother country.
What is Colony (or Colonies)?
100
The map below shows seven of these types of large landmasses. 
What are Continents?
100
In 1492, this Italian born explorer crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the kingdom of Spain while accidentally discovering the western hemisphere.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This Imperialist nation would establish big colonies ranging from present day Mexico, Central America, and South America all in pursuit of gold.
What is Spain?
100
This theme of geography is used to find the exact position of anything on Earth's surface using either an address or coordinates.
What is Location?
100
This iconic monument in France is known for its lattice ironwork and was completed in the year 1889.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
100
I have to be broken before you can use me.
What is an egg?
200
This term describes when a stronger nation extends its power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism?
200
Letters A through E showcase these large bodies of saltwater.
What are Oceans?
200
In 1487, this Portuguese explorer discovered the Cape of Good hope while seeking an Oceanic trade route to India.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
200
This massive land based empire once controlled a majority of the silk road, stretched from Poland to China, and was founded by Genghis Khan.
What is the Mongol Empire?
200
Columbian Exchange was intended to spread plants, animals, ideas, and technologies around the world but it unintentionally spread this from the Old World to New World as well.
What are diseases?
200
This Ancient wonder was constructed around 2560 BCE in Egypt where soon after it became considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
What is the GREAT Pyramid of Giza?
200
I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old.
What is a candle?
300
This term describes the study of the earth including the continents, oceans, countries, the people in the countries, how people impact nature, etc...
What is Geography?
300
#3 on this map represents this continent, which is the only to reside in all four hemispheres.
What is Africa?
300
This Portuguese born explorer is credited with being the first person to circumnavigate the globe with his Spanish sponsored expedition.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
This Imperialist Nation is credited with starting the Age of Exploration by inventing the Caravel ship and using the magnetic compass to navigate down the western coast of Africa.
What is Portugal?
300
This theme of Geography is used to analyze the ways in which people, goods, ideas, and information move from one place to another.
What is movement?
300
This "Great Wall" can be seen from space and was built by the Qing Dynasty of China to keep Genghis Khan and his Mongol Empire.
What is the Great Wall of China?
300
I have a face, I have two hands, but I have no arms or legs.
What is a clock?
400
This term describes an exchange of plants, animals, ideas, technologies, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
What is Columbian Exchange?
400
The letter A on this map represents this ocean which Christopher Columbus famously crossed in 1492.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
This Portuguese Prince wasn't an explorer but funded the very early stages of the Age of Exploration and the improvement of sailing technology.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
400
This southeast Asian nation was one of the primary trade targets on the Silk Road by providing goods such as silk, porcelain, and tea.
What is China?
400
Time zones, political borders, languages, and all things that don't physically exist but are categorized as these to help separate the world.
What is a Region?
400
This North American monument isn't a natural or ancient wonder of the world instead it was sculpted in 1927 to show the following four United States' presidents
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Abraham Lincoln
What is Mount Rushmore?
400
You can catch me but you cannot throw me.
What is a cold?
500
This term describes the exchange of goods and services, often for money.
What is trade?
500
#4 on the map represents this continent known for its explorers starting the Age of Exploration in the late 1400s.
What is Europe?
500
This Italian born explorer sailed for England and helped explorer the northeastern portion of the North American continent.
Who is John Cabot?
500
This gunpowder empire gained control over a portion of the Silk road in 1453 after successfully conquering the city of Constantinople by using gunpowder cannons to siege its walls.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
500
This type of geography looks at where people live, how they live, and how the earth's surfaces affects us by examining things like cities or population.
What is Human Geography?
500
The capital city of the Aztec empire that was built entirely on water and located nearby modern Mexico city.
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
I come once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years.
What is the letter M?
600
This term describes an imaginary line that circles the globe, halfway between the north and south pole.
What is the Equator?
600
In 1487, Bartolomeu Dias is credited for "discovering" this ocean represented by the letter C.
What is the Indian Ocean?
600
This conquistador is credited with destroying the Incan empire after spending a decade searching for them along the western coast of South America.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
600
This southeast Asian nation was one of the primary trade targets on the Silk Road, both Christopher Columbus and Bartolomeu Dias were attempting to find oceanic trade routes to here.
What is India?
600
The cherry blossom trees, Washington monument, Lincoln memorial, Smithsonian, Capital building, and White House are all unique features of Washington D.C. therefore making it one of these.
What is a Place?
600
This pre-Columbian archaeological site in Peru was built by the Inca civilization and is renowned for its sophisticated dry-stone walls that fuse huge blocks without mortar.
What is Machu Picchu?
600
I am always in front of you but can't be seen.
What is the future?
800
This term describes customs and traditions of a specific group of people that are passed on over time.
What is culture?
800
This vertical red line on the map represents zero degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
800
This explorer is credited with mapping the eastern coast of both North and South America, which would later be named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
800
This Old European civilizations collapse took all of it's technology, order, and advancements with it before plunging Europe into a time period known as the Middle Ages.
What is Rome?
800
Spain and the Spanish Empire are credited with spreading this specific type of Christianity around the globe by using conquistadors to convert native populations.
What is Catholicism/Catholic?
800
This Indian monument was constructed by the Mughal Empire was built in the 17th century by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
What is the Taj Mahal?
800
I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to.
What is an Echo?
1000
This term describes an economic system where a country tries to gain wealth through trading, by favoring exporting over importing goods.
What is Mercantilism?
1000
D is used to represent this freezing cold ocean, which is famous for spawning the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
1000
This explorer is credited with discovering the sea route to India where Columbus and Dias before him failed.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
1000
When Christopher Columbus first made landfall in the western hemisphere he falsely believed he was in India when he actually landed here.
What is the Bahamas?
1000
The people of Brazil speak this language due to their mother country's social control over their colony during the Age of Exploration and the theme of geography "movement."
What is Portugese?
1000
Built in the 5th century BCE, this ancient Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Athena is located in Athens and is a symbol of ancient Greece and democracy.
What is the Pantheon?
1000
Ask this question all day long, but always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers will be correct.
What is time?
1500
This term describes the ways in which languages, religions, food, fashion, etc... spreads from one group of people to another.
What is Cultural Exchange?
1500
The Equator divides the world horizontally while this one divides in vertically.
What is the Prime Meridian?
1500
This man was the "first" European to travel the silk road, his name is forever immortalized in a popular summer game.
Who is Marco Polo?
1500
After passing through Xi'an this Chinese city was considered the "end" point of the Silk Road in China.
What is Beijing?
1500
This substance was originally created for fireworks and used for celebrations. However, it would later be used as the deadliest weapons of the 1300-1500s.
What is gunpowder?
1500
This colossal religious statue, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, stands atop the Corcovado mountain and overlooks the city.
What is the Christ the Redeemer statue?
1500
You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But never Neptune, or Venus.
What is the letter R?