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Vocabulary
How They Got Here
Motives for Coming
What They Found
Misc.
100
This is a scientist who studies artifacts to learn abotu past cultures.
What is an archaeologist?
100
This is where the Earth and the sky meet; it helped sailors use an astrolabe.
What is the horizon.
100
These have always been symbols of power for their country.
What are flags?
100
American Indians grew many types of this crop; they roasted, boiled, and popped it.
What is corn?
100
Christianity began in this part of the world.
What is the Middle East?
200
This is a crop that is grown in large quantities for sale.
What is a cash crop?
200
A compass always points in this direction because of a powerful magnetic field.
What is north?
200
Many explorers carried this book with them to convert native people.
What is a Bible?
200
This tall and leafy cash crop was smoked, chewed, or inhaled.
What is tobacco?
200
Many Europeans became addicted to this crop found in the New World.
What is tobacco?
300
This is an early scientific tool used to observe and calculate the position of the sun and other stars.
What is an astrolabe?
300
This direction is always the opposite of North.
What is South?
300
These two precious metals motivated many Spanish explorers to journey to South and Central America.
What are gold and silver.
300
Many explorers thought tobacco could be used as this.
What is medicine?
300
Many early European explorers came from this country.
What is Spain?
400
These are the land masses of North Americs, Central America, and South America.
What are the Americas?
400
These are drawings of bodies of land and water.
What are maps.
400
The Spanish forced these people to work in the gold and silver mines.
Who are Native Americans?
400
This plant is what Native Americans made chocolate from.
What is cacao?
400
Artifacts made from this material tend to hold up best over time; they are usually found the most intact.
What is metal?
500
The period of time in which European explorers sought new routes to Asia and discovered the Americas.
What is the Age of Exploration?
500
Mapmakers got new informtaion from these three people.
What are sailors, scientists, and explorers.
500
Explorers claimed land for their country by doing this.
What is planting a flag on the land?
500
Cacao was used in these two items, often associated with rituals and ceremonies.
What are drinks and medicines.
500
These are TWO of the many fruits and vegetables the explorers found in the New World.
What is potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, squash, tomoatoes, and pineapples.