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Ferdinand & Isabella's Country
Conquest
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The Columbia Exchange
Guns, Germs & Steel
100
This country became the first global sea power.
What is Portugal?
100
This killed an estimated 50% - 90% of the Native American population following the 'discovery' of the 'New World' by Columbus.
What is disease?
100
The highest stage of Maslow's hierarchy of needs in this.
What is 'self-actualization'?
100
This plant caused the death of more WW II service men than those who actually died in the war.
What is tobacco?
100
The population of New Guinea has not flourished in part because they did not have to tools to support this.
What is agriculture?
200
This was Portugal's secret weapon, made by the 15th Century equivalent of 'R & D'.
What are maps?
200
Between 1500 and 1750, Europe carved up the Americas and this continent.
What is Africa?
200
First identified in the 1500s, American moms have parties to spread this disease.
What is Chicken Pox?
200
These three useful animals were brought to the Americas by European settlers.
What are horses, pigs and cows?
200
The way crops are changed by human intervention is known as this.
What is domestication?
300
This city is the capital of Portugal.
What is Lisbon?
300
I was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that helped to cause the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
300
I am an animal that never looks left.
What is a Llama?
300
This doubled in the years between 1650 C.E. and 1850 C.E., due to the distribution of higher calorie new world crops.
What is the world's population?
300
Just one tree can produce 700 pounds of this starch.
What is a 'sago' tree?
400
He was the first European to reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
400
This Spanish conquistador founded Lima, Peru and helped Balboa find his way to the Pacific Ocean.
Who was Francisco Pizzaro?
400
This catastrophic climate change happened about 12,500 years ago.
What is an Ice Age?
400
The Europeans came to the Americas mainly for this essential resource.
What is food?
400
These grains helped to sustain farming communities during droughts?
What are wheat and barley?
500
His journey as the first European to reach India by sea included rounding this South African cape.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
500
Relying mostly on trade for their economic power, Portugal had a network spanning the globe. Name at least three modern day countries that were included in this network.
What are Brazil, the United Sates, the Philippines, Japan (where they founded Nagasaki), Mexico? There are more, but these are the biggies.
500
This tool was used to navigate the open waters of the ocean.
What is an astrolabe?
500
Montezuma's revenge is caused by this substance?
What is bacteria in dirty Mexican water?
500
Evidence of the first farming was found in this region of the world.
What is the Middle East?