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Your cousin tells you about his trip to the ballpark.
What is a primary source?
100
This Italian explorer was given his ships by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This technology enables the user to take a virtual field trip.
What is a computer (internet)?
100
This cartographer from around 500 years added the New World to the existing map of the time.
Who is Waldseemuller?
100
The name the continent of America was called before being named America.
What is the New World?
200
Your best friend tells you about when her sister met Justin Bieber.
What is a secondary source?
200
This explorer traveled to the Bahamas and realized it was a new continent (New World)
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
This technological invention was the first to enable overhead views of land and sea.
What is the airplane?
200
About 2,000 years ago, this cartographer from Greece wrote a book about maps and illustrated the Old World (the New World had not yet been discovered)
Who is Ptolemy?
200
The rulers from Spain that provided Columbus with his three ships.
Who is Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand?
300
A movie telling about the Civil War.
What is secondary source?
300
This explorer is know for discovering the Fountain of Youth in St. Augustine, Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
300
The complete name for GPS.
What is Global Positioning Satellite?
300
Telescopes, compasses and the stars.
What are things that helped sailors navigate the sea?
300
The native people of Asia were called this by Columbus and his crew.
What are Indians?
400
Letters that were written by George Washington.
What is a primary source?
400
The three ships Columbus used.
What are the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria?
400
True or False? Clay tablets were used widely by Waldseemuller when drawing maps.
What is false?
400
Vespucci is from this country.
What is Italy?
400
Columbus and his men were in search of this valuable substance when they set sail for Asia.
What is gold?
500
Mrs. Feldbaum describes how she accidentally squirted her Boston Creme donut on a total stranger.
What is a primary source?
500
This is the date (Month/Day/Year) Columbus landed in the Bahamas.
What is October 12, 1492?
500
Technology enabled maps to be more ____________ and ______________.
What is accurate and detailed?
500
This is the date (month/day/year) that Columbus landed in the Bahamas.
What is October 12, 1492?
500
The name Asia was known by around 500 years ago.
What is the West Indies?