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100

How many different tribes of First Nation natives were there prior to Europeans coming over?

What is over 500?

100
This person is often given credit for the discovery of America.
Who is Columbus?
100
This was the continent slaves were taken from, besides North/South America.
What is Africa?
100

This country claimed all lands west of the Line of Demarcation and most of the Americas from the Southwest US down through South America.

What is Spain?

100

When a group of people rebel against a person in power and try to overthrow them

What is mutiny?

200

This is a range of years that have gone by since natives came to the Americas.

What is anywhere between 10,000-30,000 years?

200
Columbus was originally searching for this.
What is a oceanic westward passage to Asia for spices?
200
This is why plantation owners needed to find new slaves instead of using natives.
What is the natives were dying?
200
This country wanted to move the Line of Demarcation so they could also claim lands in the new world. Technically, they were the first country to explore, but they did it around Africa.
What is Portugal?
200
This was the route traders took slaves on to reach the colonies.
What is the Middle Passage?
300

How do we know Natives existed here long before Europeans made their way over ?

What are artifacts left behind and bodies buried dated back thousands of years?  What are footprints and artwork?

300
This was an explorer for which the Americas are named after.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300

This was one of the main cash crops during the time of the slave trade that was traded from the Americas to Europe on the trade triangle.

What is sugar cane, tobacco, cotton?

300

This is a disease natives did not have immunity for and died in large numbers from.

What is small pox?

300

These were a couple items exchanged after Columbus came to the Americas in the Columbian exchange.

What is animals and crops?

400

Why would it be harder to ally with Natives, assimilate Natives European beliefs or Christianity, or trade with certain native groups over others?

What is they all have distinct cultures with different beliefs and ways they lived.  Some may have been more peaceful, while others were drawn to war.  
400

Can you name any other explorers besides Vespucci or Columbus, and explain their attempt at Glory?

Answers vary!

400

Name two reasons slave traders may have packed so many slaves on ships to the Americas?

What is more profit or to ensure some got across since 20% on average didn't make it?

400

These soldiers for spain conquered many lands and drove out or enslaved many native tribes like the Aztec and Inca.

What are conquistadors?

400
This was a reason Columbus is sometimes seen as a cruel man.
What is he stole, enslaved, punished his men?
500

Name one positive interaction between explorers and natives.  What is an example of this?

What is trading? Weapons...horses

500

Name three negative effects explorers had on natives.

What is spread of disease, enslavement, removal of land, death, destroying culture, stealing of resources?

500
List three negative consequences to being on a slave ship?
What is Answers will vary?
500

This group of people shut down the trade routes from Europe to Asia which launched the expeditions to the West.

What is the Ottoman Turks

500

Why wasn't there this vast exploration and desire to conquer foreign lands by Europe before the 15th Century? 

Some countries were spending resources on civil wars, just to become a country...there was a land route merchants could use, until it was taxed or shut down to others...technology wasn't great for long expeditions (needed proper boats, sails, navigational tools like the compass to help make trips safer and easier)