Thinking Like A Historian
Age of Exploration
Columbian Exchange
Native Americans
Mixed Bag
100

Looking at how two or more things are similar or different

What is "comparison"?

100

Explorer who "discovered" America in 1492

Who is Christopher Columbus?
100

The exchange of goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas

What is the Columbian Exchange?

100

The leader of a Native American tribe

What is the "Chief"?

100

The nation Columbus "discovered" and named "The New World".

What are the Americas?

200

The study of cause and effect in history

What is “causation”?

200

The first explorer to sail around the world

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

200

When one country takes over another to be used for its benefit

What is "colonization"?

200

The "three sisters" refers to these crops.

What is corn, beans, and squash?

200

Using supporting materials to prove or disprove something

What is "using evidence"?

300

The time and place surrounding an event

What is "context"?

300

Portuguese royal who funded mapmaking and exploration tools

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

300

Smallpox, measles, influenza (or malaria)

What are infectious diseases spread by Europeans to Native Americans?

300

Tracing family through the mother’s line

What is "matrilineal"?

300

The explorer who proved the Earth was round

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

400

Questioning a source’s reliability

What is "sourcing"?

400

Explorer who sailed around Africa to reach India

Who is Vasco da Gama?

400

The art of steering a ship from place to place

What is "navigation?"

400

Native Americans believed that all plants, land, and animals have this

What is "spirit"?

400

Studying what stayed the same and what changed over time

What is "continuity and change"?

500

Breaking the past into chunks of time to organize history

What is “periodization”?

500

The main goal of most early European exploration.

What is finding trade routes to Asia?

500

A firsthand account from the time being studied

What is a "primary source"?

500

The methods through which Native Americans taught lessons and culture

What are stories and legends.

500

The location where Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492.

What are the Bahamas?