Vikings
Explorers
Columbian Exchange
Middle Passage
Vocabulary
100
Which country did the Vikings come from?
What is Scandinavia.
100
In what year did Columbus sail the ocean blue?
What is 1492
100
What did Europeans call Asia, Africa and Europe?
What is the Old World.
100
What was the middle passage?
What is the route between Africa and the America’s.
100
What do you call a person who travels to faraway places they know little about?
What is an explorer.
200
What were the boats called the Vikings traveled on?
What are Longships.
200
Hernan Cortes took over which Native American Group?
What is the Aztecs.
200
What did Europeans call the America’s?
What is the New World.
200
Who did the colonists enslave first in North America?
Who are the Native Americans.
200
What do you call a person who makes maps?
Who is a cartographer.
300
What was it called when Vikings stole from other tribes.
What is looting.
300
Samuel de Champlain created a colony in which country?
What is Canada
300
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What is the Exchange of plants, animals, people and diseases during the Age of Exploration.
300
What kind of work did Africans do in the colonies?
What is worked on plantations, planted crops, worked on sugar farms
300
What do you call the agreement between Portugal and Spain that divided the world?
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas.
400
What did Vikings call their stories?
What are sagas.
400
Which explorer wanted to find a sea route to Asia but ended up in the Bahamas?
Who is Christopher Columbus.
400
Name a product that first started in the America’s and was sent to Europe in the Columbian Exchange.
What is corn, potatoes, turkey, tomatoes, gold, silver, tobacco, vanilla, cocoa, sugar
400
Europeans said it was illegal to enslave a person of which religion?
What is Christianity.
400
What is a conquistador?
Who is a conqueror.
500
What did Vikings drink from?
What are animal horns.
500
What were the FIVE motivations for European Exploration?
What is wealth, knowledge, glory, religion and competition.
500
What did Europeans call goods that could be sold for a lot of money?
What are cash crops.
500
What percent of Africans did not survive the long trip to the America’s.
What is 15 percent.
500
What do you call an area started by settlers from a different country?
What is a colony.