Vocabulary
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100
Name given to land explored by Europeans, even though Native Americans had lived her for thousands of years.
What is the New World?
100
An important part of the European's Christians faith. It was used to help spread their faith with Native Americans.
What is the Holy Bible?
100
This device helped sailors determine what direction they were sailing and could be used during fog and darkness.
What is a compass?
100
One of the categories for exploration. Use of devices that helped them navigate across the ocean.
What is technology?
100
The ocean explorers crossed to find the new world.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
Name given to the period of time in the 1500s when Europeans started searching for lands they did not know.
What is the Age of Exploration?
200
Explorers used these drawings of bodies of land and water to tell were things were and help others reach new lands.
What are Maps?
200
They represented the king and queen of a country and were used to make claims on new lands.
What are flags?
200
A category for exploration. A countries reasons for wanting to come to the new world.
What is motivation?
200
This artifact was both a motivation for exploration along with a product brought back from the New World.
What is Gold?
300
Name given to the men who sailed small ships across large oceans in search of new lands.
Who were explorers?
300
This food item, although initially thought a poison, was to become a part of the European's diet.
What are tomatoes?
300
The most valuable product brought back from the New World. Was the measure of a country's wealth.
What is Gold?
300
A category for exploration. Tobacco and tomatoes are examples.
What is New World Products?
300
The place explorers came from when looking for the new world?
What is Europe?
400
Products that were grown and produced so that they could be turned around and sold for money.
What are cash crops?
400
This leafy plant, which was not eaten, was brought back to Europe and sold as a cash crop.
What is tobacco?
400
The place where your retrieved artifacts during your diving simulation?
What is a sunken ship?
400
The action of placing a flag representing a country in a new land.
What are land claims?
400
The name given to a scientist who finds and studies artifacts left by earlier cultures.
What is an Archeologist?
500
Objects used by people in cultures that help us learn more about them. (What we retrieved from the sunken ship.)
What are artifacts?
500
This navigational tool was was used sailors to help them stay on course while sailing across the ocean along with finding their location.
What is an astrolabe?
500
The name of the plant that Europeans thought was a tomato. It was poisonous to eat.
What is black nightshade.
500
The religion that Europeans were motivated to share as they came to the New World?
What is Christianity?
500
The name given to the pattern used by archeologists when recording where they located artifacts in a "dive" or "dig".
What is a grid pattern?
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