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Discovery
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Columbus
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100
The main reason explorers were searching for other routes to Asia.
What are spices?
100
Sugarcane was grown on these large farms.
What are plantations?
100
In this economic system, private businesses run most of the industries.
What is capitalism?
100
The names of Columbus’s three ships.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
100
This book is a collection of maps.
What is an atlas?
200
Cabot and Cartier both landed here.
What is Canada?
200
This was the name given to the exchange of goods between the Old World and the New World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
This is the relationship between a country’s imports and exports.
What is balance of trade?
200
Columbus first landed here in the Americas.
What are the Bahamas?
200
This ship had triangular sails that allowed sailors to sail against the wind.
What is the caravel?
300
The first person to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Magellan?
300
Five plants and animals found in the Americas that Europeans had never seen before.
What are: potatoes, beans, squash, avocados, pineapples, maize, tobacco, peanuts, pumpkins, chili peppers, tomatoes, turkeys, chocolate?
300
The government controls the economy in this system.
What is mercantilism?
300
The name of the American Indian culture that Columbus encountered.
What is Arawak?
300
This Portuguese prince built a navigation school to teach sailors how travel between ports.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
400
He sailed around Africa and landed in Africa
Who is Vasco de Gama?
400
Five new plants and animals that Europeans brought to the Americas.
What are: bananas, cattle, citrus, chickens, coffee, grapes, horses, onions, peaches, pigs, rice, sugar, wheat?
400
In this system family members make parts of products in their homes.
What is cottage industry?
400
To please the King and Queen of Spain, Columbus tried to acquire these two things.
What are slaves and gold?
400
Missionaries in the Americas tried to convince the American Indians to do this.
What is convert to Christianity?
500
This was defeated by the English in 1588.
What is the Spanish Armada?
500
This Spanish priest protested the terrible treatment of the American Indians.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
500
To escape religious persecution, Jews settled in this country and later established banks.
What is the Netherlands?
500
The name Columbus gave to the Island that is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
500
The English queen hired this pirate to steal from the Spanish.
Who is Francis Drake?