Vocab
People
Places
History
Music
100
To ______________ means to look for new things. It means to seek answers to questions one has. To _________ means to go into places where you haven’t been before.
Explore
100
This early explorer traveled from Italy to China and helped reopen and develop the Silk Road.
Marco Polo
100
Name the country where the Aztec civilization thrived until it was destroyed by the Spanish.
Mexico
100
This is the name of the trade and transportation of people from the West Coast of Africa into South America, the Caribbean, and North America from the 1600s into the 1800s.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
100
Name this artist
Bruno Mars
200
To _____________ means to find one’s way. It means to find a path from point A to point B. _______________ is using tools to find a route or a path.
Navigate
200
This Italian man received finding from the King and Queen of Spain and set sail for China in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
200
This country was responsible for developing trade ports on the West coast of Africa during the 16 and 17th century and profiting tremendously from the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The Netherlands.
200
This trail was used by settlers in the 1800s to move from the Midwest USA to the West Coast.
The Oregon Trail
200
Listen to this piece of classical music. What instrument is being played?
The violin
300
An ___________________ is a collection of territories which are unified under the control of one country. Typically an _______________ imposes its cultural norms, standards, and practices on the territories it controls.
Empire
300
This Portuguese man developed maps and navigation systems which allowed Portugal to explore and colonize the Northwest coast of Africa.
Henry the Navigator
300
This area of Africa was colonized by Belgium under the leadership of King Leopold.
The Congo
300
This is the term used to describe European countries claiming different countries and territories in Africa in the late 1800s.
The Scramble for Africa
300
Listen to this short clip. Name the song and the band.
One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
400
________________________ means to increase the efficiency of the production of material goods. It means to use technological advancements to develop ways to create things and use resources more effectively. _____________________ moves a society focused on farming into one focused on manufacturing.
Industrialization
400
This man was the first to sail around the tip of Africa and map the sea route from Europe to India.
Vasco De Gama
400
This piece of land west of the Mississippi and East of the Rocky Mountains was purchased by America from France in the late 1700s.
The Louisiana Purchase
400
What religion did the Spanish practice and impose upon the native population of Central and South America?
Catholocism
400
Name three songs by Mariah Carey.
Many many many
500
A ___________________ is where one group of people invades and overtakes another population by force. A _________________ is where a person or group of people claims a place as their own.
Conquest
500
This man was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
500
This country in Asia was colonized by the Spanish and Ferdinand Magellan and is largely Catholic as a result.
The Philippines
500
This Revolution in America and Britain in particular drove greater colonization and exploration throughout the World in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
The Industrial Revolution
500
Which English band caused a Mania in America in the 1960s and produced the album, Abbey Road.
The Beatles