Languages
THIS language, originating in England, is the main language spoken today in the United States, Canada, and Australia...
What is "English"?
Although born in Italy, HE explored for Spain. He made 4 voyages to the New World, and is credited with "discovering America in 1492."
Who is "Christopher Columbus"?
12 million of THESE people, were transported from Africa to the Americas, between 1500 and 1880...
What are "slaves"?
The capital city of France...
What is "Paris"?
THIS bird, native to North America, became a popular food in Europe. It also became the main dish served at a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner...
What is "turkey"?
THIS language is the main language spoken in France. It was the original "language of commerce" ("lingua franca")...
What is "French"?
One of the two European countries which divided the continent of South America between them, with a "line of demarcation."
What are 1) "Spain" and 2) "Portugal"?
Smallpox, influenza, measles, chickenpox, and typhus, are examples of THIS, which were brought to the new world...
The capital city of Italy...
What is "Rome"?
In the 50 years after Columbus' discovery of America, Spanish conquistadors destroyed the civilizations of ancient America in their quest to find THIS precious metal...
What is "gold"? (Gold & silver was shipped back to Europe in vast quantities)
THIS ancient language is the basis of the "Romance Languages" of Spanish, French, Portuguese & Italian. (Hint: "Romance" equals "originating in Rome")
What is "Latin"?
Fill in the blank:
"Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese captain, sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but died (1522) before completing the voyage around the _____."
What is "world"?
The name of ONE type of animal which was introduced to the New World, from Europe...
What are "horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, brown rats..."?
The capital city of Germany...
What is "Berlin"?
Before its discovery in the New World, THIS main ingredient found in candy bars, was unknown to Europeans...
What is "chocolate"?
What is "Italian"?
Christopher Columbus was looking for a route to THIS continent when he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. He accidentally discovered the Americas, which opened up new opportunities of conquest, trade and colonization...
What is "Asia"?
A food introduced to the New World...
What are "onions, sugarcane, yams, bananas, rice, wheat, oats, barley"?
The capital city of Spain...
What is "Madrid"?
THIS food which grows on stalks, is one of the world's most popular foods. It was discovered in the New World and brought back to Europe...
What is "corn"?
There is no main language spoken in Switzerland, but rather 4 main languages spoken. The name of ONE of them is... (Hint: the languages of the countries which border Switzerland)
What is "German, French, Italian, Romansh"?
In 1522, Magellan rounded Cape Horn South America to enter THIS ocean from the Atlantic Ocean...
What is "the Pacific Ocean"?
Europeans came and looked to convert people of the New World to THIS religion...
What is "Christianity"?
The capital city of Portugal...
What is "Lisbon"?
THIS food was discovered in the New World, and has remained wildly popular. Because of diseased plants, there was a "______ Famine" which resulted in the deaths of thousands of people in Ireland, in the 1800s.
What are "potatoes"? ("The Great Potato Famine")