GEOGRAPHY READINESS AND EUROPEAN EXPLORATION OF THE AMERICAS
European Colonization I
European Colonization II
100
The exact number of the largest land masses in the world.
What are the seven continents?
100
Name the areas that make up the Americas.
What is North, Central, West Indies ( Caribbean) and South America?
100
Name the oceans that are near the Americas.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
100
Name the historical period between the 1300s' and the 1600s' which focused on the sciences including the scientific method and the Arts that would lead to European exploration of the Americas.
What was the Renaissance?
100
In New England Public discussions were held thru this assembly leading to later democratic thought in the United States.
What are town meetings?
200
Name the seven continents.
What is North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and Antarctica?
200
Name given to the Americas after the Columbus voyages to the Americas?
What is the "New World"?
200
Name the European country for which Columbus sailed to the Americas.
What is Spain?
200
Name the European country that conquered most of what is today the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America.
What is Spain?
200
Name the first representative body of law in what is today the United States.
What was the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619?
300
The largest of the seven continents.
What is Asia?
300
Name the Continent which covers Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
What is North America?
300
Name one of the seven reasons why Europeans came to the Americas.
What are curiosity, wealth, fame, religion, national pride,
foreign goods, and cheaper faster trade routes?
300
Name the country or region of Europe which created the 13 original colonies in what is today the eastern coastline of the United States.
What is England or Great Britain?
300
the main purpose of why large number of Africans
being brought to the American colonies?
What were indentured servants or full scale slaves who worked on American plantations?
400
Name the smallest land mass of the seven continents
What is Australia?
400
The number of actual oceans in the world.
What is 5?
400
Name the the economic system Europeans used during the Age of exploration which called for a country to sell more to other countries than it buys from them?
What is mercantilism?
400
French colonization in the Americas was based on this business.
What is fur trapping?
400
Name the three part practice of slave trading in colonial America.
What was the triangular slave trade?
500
Continent which had the largest population to settle in the Americas.
What is the continent of Europe?
500
Name the five oceans of the world.
What are the Arctic, Atlantic, Antarctic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans?
500
Name one of four inventions which helped European Explorers sail to the Americas during the Age of Exploration?
What were the compass, the astrolabe, caravel ships and the printing press.
500
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island were all a part of this English colonial Region.
What is New England?
500
In the 1730's sand 1740's name the religious movement called which swept through the colonies.