Explorers and Technology
The explorer known for finding America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
True or False: There was a strict hierachary on the ship, the captain was the most in charge.
What is true? The captain held the most power with the pages and apprentices having the least amount of power.
True or False: The Aztecs created their own system of numbers.
False. It was the Maya.
True or False: People chose to go on the ships and become slaves.
False. That is the whole point of slavery.
True or False: In the Columbian Exchange, religion and ideas stayed in one place and were not spread about the world.
What is false? The whole point of it being an exchange is that they were moved around the world.
The tool that always points True North.
What is a compass?
The main cure for scurvy.
What is citrus fruits?
True or False. Indigenous people were treated with respect from the explorers.
False. They were disrespected and treated like less of a person.
The shape that shows the transfer of people through the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is a triangle of trade?
The time period before Columbus sailed to America.
What is the Pre-Columbian era?
What is the Age of Exploration?
A time period when European countries explored other areas of the world in search of land, goods and trading partners.
Which is nicer, Cabins or Hammocks?
Cabins. This is where the captain slept.
The rest of the crew slept in a room full of hammocks.
The group that built Machu Picchu.
Who are the Inca?
The ways enslaved people resisted bondage.
What is breaking tools, pretending to be sick and slowing down their work?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The reason Lateen sails were an important technological advancement for explorers.
What is it helped the winds move through the sail more freely since it was a triangle instead of a square.
The three reasons countries explored.
Gold, God and Glory
The country the Aztecs mainly resided in.
What is Mexico?
What was the Atlantic Slave Trade?
It was when European countries forced Africans onto boats to bring them across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas to live as slaves.
How did the Columbian exchange affect the indigenous people living in the Americas?
They were negatively impacted by diseases, murders, push of European religious beliefs and their land being taken.
The explorer responsible for the fall of the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
List three struggles we had on our voyage.
Storms, Getting Lost, Mutiny, Disease, Pirates
The infectious disease brought to the Taino by the European.
What is smallpox?
How did the AST effect African-Americans currently?
It was the start of slavery in our country which then lead to racism towards people of color.
Name three things that were "moved" in the Columbian Exchange.
1. Diseases
2. Cows and Horses
3. Plants