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100

Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.

What is Christopher Columbus

100
What wast the period of time called that officially began in the early 15th century and lasted until the 17th century. This period is thought of as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes. In addition, some explorers set sail to simply learn more about the world.
What is The Age of Exploration or known as The Age of Discovery.
100

The trade of products from the New World and Old World

What is the Columbian Exchange?

100

The Continents that Make up the New World 

What is North and South America? 

200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200

What were the three goals that explorers tried to accomplish when setting out to explore? This was also known as the "3 G's"

What is God, Gold, Glory? 

200
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
200

The Continents make up the Old World 

What are Africa, Asia, and Europe?

300

This explorer named Rivers, Bays, and straits after himself in modern day New York State and Canada 

Who is Henry Hudson?

300

This was the year that Christopher Columbus set sail on his first voyage

What is 1492?

300

Name 3 Products that came from the Old world to the New World

What is Bananas, cattle, chicken, citrus fruit, coffee beans, grapes, horses, onions, peaches, Pigs, Rice, sugarcane, wheat? 

300

Name a piece of Equipment/Tool used by Explorers during the Age of Exploration 

What is a compass, Astrolabe, Caravel, or Gunpowder

400
Who was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India? His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
What is Vasco da Gama
400

This is the name for the trafficking of slaves from Africa to the New World 

What is the Middle Passage? 

400

Name 3 Products that come from the Americas 

What is Corn, Cocoa, Potato, beans, peanuts, pumpkins, sweet potato, squash, tomato, turkey, and Tobacco?

400

What is the spanish heirarchy system that enslaved Native Americans and Africans called

What is the Encomienda System?

500
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa, Dias opened the doors for seafaring trade with India.
What is Bartolomeu Dias
500
Explain two negative effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is... 1. Use of African slaves 2. Spread of Diseases to the New World.
500

 system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials, and Africa supplied the Americas with enslaved laborers.

What is Triangular Trade?

500

Who was the first European to "Discover" the Americas? 

Who is Leaf Erikson?