People who travel or search an area to discover something.
What is an explorer?
100
Names of Columbus ships
What are the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria?
100
A land bridge between northeastern Asia and present day Alaska.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
100
These people were the earliest to sail to the Americans.
Who are The Vikings?
200
I explored the Caribbean & credited for discovering America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The queen and king who funded Columbus Voyage.
Who was King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
200
The earliest known civilization that developed in Mesoamerica. Known for their use of stone in architecture and sculpture.
Who are the The Olmec?
200
Material that Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Explorers were searching for.
What is Gold?
300
I was the 1st to reach India by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
300
Name Columbus gave to the inhabitants of San Salvador
Who were the Indians?
300
individual ownership only applies to the crops, land belongs to everyone. Ownership is temporary.
What is Native American belief about land rights?
300
Horses, wheat and diseases
What are things brought to the New World from Europe?
400
I was the 1st to reach the southern tip of Africa.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
400
Find a shorter route to Asia and bring spices, silk and other valuable goods back to Europe and make money.
What is Columbus goal on his voyage?
400
corn, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, squash and peanuts.
What are the cash crops that the Native Americans introduced to the Europeans?
400
2 main items traded in Africa
What are Gold and Salt?
500
In the year 1000, he was sailing from west Norway to Greenland when strong winds blew his ship off course and carried his ship all the way to the North American coast.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
500
Country where Christopher Columbus was born.
What is Genoa, Italy?
500
Reasons Native Americans were easily defeated by the Europeans.
What was the lack of weapons and spread of infectious diseases?