Exploring New Worlds
The American Kingdoms
Spain, Portugal, & the New World
Martin Luther's New Ideas
The Renaissance
100

Italian explorer sent by Spain to discover a new route to the East

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

The bridge of land linking North and South America

What is Central America?

100

The islands just off South America

What are the West Indies?

100

Those who rejected the errors of the Catholic church during the time of the Reformation became known as these

What are Protestants?

100

The printing press was invented by this man

Who is Gutenberg?

200

The first explorer to realize that North America wasn't India; the newly discovered part of the world was named after him

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

200

The Incas lived in what is now this country

What is Peru?

200

Spanish and Portuguese soldiers who attacked the people of Central and South America

Who are Conquistadores?

200

The time when countries began to send ships to faraway lands

What is the Age of Exploration?

200

The first book printed using the printing press

What is the Bible?

300

The first explorer to land in America, long before the Age of Exploration

Who is Leif Ericsson?

300

The Mayans lived on this peninsula

What is the Yucatan peninsula?

300

The long journey that slaves were forced to take from West Africa to Central and South America

What is the Middle Passage?

300

A new settlement in a land far away, often established for economic or religious purposes

What is a colony?
300

The meaning of the word "Renaissance"

What is rebirth?

400

The first explorer to sail around Africa to reach India

Who is Vasco da Gama?

400

The Aztecs built their capital city in the middle of this body of water

What is Lake Texcoco?

400

Famous Spanish explorer who was searching for a city of gold

Who is Hernan Cortes?

400
Martin Luther's list of oppositions to Catholic church doctrine

What are the 95 Theses?

400

During the Renaissance, there was renewed interest in the art and literature of these two ancient cultures

What are Greek and Roman?

500

The first explorer to sail all the way around the world

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

500

The capital city of the Aztec empire

What is Tenochtitlan?

500

The king of the Aztecs

Who is Montezuma?

500
Martin Luther nailed his list to the church door at this place

What is Wittenberg?

500

When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople, scrolls were brought west by scholars from this church 

What is Eastern Orthodox Christian?