Map Skills &
Geography
Geography
This is the largest ocean, touching the west coast of the Americas and the east coast of Asia.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
People who move from place to place following food sources are called this.
What are nomads (hunter-gatherers)?
The Crusades were a series of religious wars fought over this region.
What is the Holy Land (Jerusalem)?
The Columbian Exchange is named after this explorer.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A diary written by an explorer during his voyage is this type of source.
What is a primary source?
The Atlantic Ocean lies between Europe and Africa on one side and these continents on the other.
What are North America and South America?
Beringia connected Siberia to this present-day U.S. state.
What is Alaska?
Crusaders returned home with silks and spices that originally came from this continent.
What is Asia?
Name one food that came FROM the Americas and changed diets around the world. (Must name 2 for full credit)
What are potatoes, tomatoes, maize (corn), chocolate (cacao), beans, or squash?
A textbook chapter written 500 years after the voyages is this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
This chain of Caribbean islands includes Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola.
What are the West Indies?
This term describes the peoples and societies that existed in the Americas before Columbus arrived.
What is Pre-Columbian?
Sailors used this instrument to measure the angle of the sun or stars above the horizon. (Latitude)
What is the astrolabe?
Native Americans had no immunity to these, which caused the biggest population decline.
What are Old World diseases (smallpox, measles)?
An author describes the riches of the New World in glowing terms to convince investors to fund another voyage. This is the author’s purpose.
What is to persuade?
Beringia was this type of landform connecting Asia and North America.
What is a land bridge?
The Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was built on an island in a lake. Its ruins lie beneath this modern capital city.
What is Mexico City?
This small, fast Portuguese ship had triangular sails that let it sail into the wind.
What is the caravel?
Give two reasons the Spanish were able to defeat the Aztec Empire.
What are better weapons and technology, native allies who resented Aztec rule, and the spread of disease?
Europeans wanted spices and silks from Asia, but overland routes were expensive.
As a result, Europeans began searching for this:
What are cheaper, all-water routes to Asia?
Beringia emerged because ocean levels dropped as water froze into these huge masses of ice.
What are glaciers?
Cortés and his small army defeated the powerful Aztec Empire, partly because they had these advantages. (Must name 2 for full credit)
What are steel armor, steel weapons, cannons, and horses?
Gutenberg’s invention made books cheaper to produce, helping new ideas and curiosity about the world spread quickly. Name this invention.
What is the Printing Press?
Gold and silver from the Americas made this European country very wealthy in the 1500s.
What is Spain?
This three-word phrase, all starting with “G,” summarizes the motives for European exploration and colonization.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?