Explorers
This person is widely known as the first European to reach the Americas
Christopher Columbus
Name the three different colony regions (HINT - the colonies in the north are not called the "northern colonies")
The Eiffel Tower is in the capital of this country
France
What are the two main political parties in the US
The Republican Party and Democratic Party
This powerful Empire once ruled what is today Mexico
The Aztec Empire
This British colony mysteriously vanished
Roanoke
This country is also its own continent
Australia
Name all 8 planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
This conquistador destroyed the Aztec Empire
Hernan de Cortes
Plants people grow to sell for money
Cash Crops
This is the biggest country in Asia
China
What is the biggest animal in the world?
Blue Whale
This explorer was the first person to go all the way around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
This man’s leadership helped the Jamestown colony survive
John Smith
This snowy country isn’t very GREEN…
Greenland
How many years ago was 1000 BCE?
3020 years ago
This Viking was the ACTUAL first European to visit North America
Leif Erickson
Britain was at war with this other country in Europe
Spain
How did the first people to live in North America get here?
They crossed a land bridge to Alaska
In this, each state was a number of ‘electoral votes’
The Electoral College