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This was the ship Vikings used to travel the seas.

Longship

100

This explorer traveled around and wrote about Asian culture. It inspired Europeans to travel themselves. He is most well known for the pool game. 

Marco Polo

100

Columbus believed he reached this country, in reality he reached the American islands. 

India

100

This system inspired men like Columbus to acquire as much land and wealth as possible. 

Empire

100

List 3 specific things that were traded back and forth in the Columbian Exchange.

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200
How did the first people to reach America get there?

Pushed by wind. 

200

This navigator was responsible for creating new schools for sailing and paid researches to explore/make maps 

Henry

200

Columbus arrived to the Americas in this year. 

1492

200

The King and Queen who sent Columbus on his journey were from this country. 

Spain

200

This percentage of the Natives Columbus met died. 

80%-90%

300

Vikings did not stay long in North America for this reason. 

Native American attacks

300

Early explorers often used these natural things to navigate. 

Sun, stars

300

Columbus thought he could turn the natives into these two things. 

Slaves, Christians

300

Columbus' men did these awful things to the Natives (3 things)

Raped women, cut of hands, set dogs on kids. 
300

The trade of food, disease, animals, and culture between Americans and the rest of the world was called this. 

Columbian Exchange

400
The Vikings were known for these two things.

Raiding, trading

400

Early explorers used new pieces of technology to track this. It helped them navigate to the correct places.

Latitude/longitude 

400

Native Americans did this when they first met Columbus. 

Traded everything they had. 

400

The Tainos killed this many of Columbus' men after their first interactions. 

39

400
This animal was especially important to Native Americans. 

Horse

500

Vikings traveled from this place. It was the current countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. 

Scandinavia 

500

What three motivations did the Portuguese (and other Europeans) have to explore the world. 

Spread religion, buy from the source, buy Asian products

500

Columbus believed the Natives were this because they grabbed a sword by their hands.

Ignorant

500

Before Columbus discovered America, there was 1-3 million Indians, once he left, there were about this many left. 

200

500

This Viking was the leader of the first European group to reach America. 

Leif Erikson