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Vikings
Columbus
Taino
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Seeds of Change
100
group of Northern European explorers that sailed to the North American Continent in about 1000 A.D.
Who are the Vikings?
100
Name two things Columbus was wanting to get easily by finding a water trade route to the East Indies.
What is spices, pepper, silks, gold, jewels?
100
The ocean in which the islands are where Columbus landed and found the Taino
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
What Columbus kept two of to trick his crew into thinking they weren't far from Spain?
What are ship's logs?
100
Five especially important items included in the Columbian exchange that changed the lives of countless people are called this.
What are the Seeds of Change?
200
person who lead the Viking expedition
Who is Leif Ericson
200
Financed Columbus' expedition
Who are Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
200
Name two Taino words that we still use in the English language.
What are canoe and hammock?
200
The date that Columbus spotted land on his first expedition
What is October 12, 1492?
200
Two Seeds of Change that moved from west to east
What are potatoes and maize (corn)
300
Small settlement started in Canada by the Vikings
What is Vinland
300
Columbus' own country, who thought he would never make it and wouldn't finance his expedition.
What is Portugal
300
Name the two continents between which the Taino homeland was located.
What are South America and North America?
300
What did Columbus call the Native Americans on the island he landed on?
What are Indios or Indians?
300
Three seeds of change that moved from east to west
What are sugar, horses, disease
400
The reason the settlement did not survive
What are Indian attacks?
400
The name of the ship that Columbus was on.
What is Santa Maria?
400
The number of Taino that Columbus kidnapped and took back to Queen Isabella in Spain
What is six?
400
What Columbus named the island he landed on, that means Holy Savior
What is San Salvador?
400
How the introduction of sugar affected the lives of Africans and Spanish colonists in the Americas
What is slavery?
500
Christopher Columbus’ goal or purpose of his expedition
What is find a sea route to the Indies by sailing west instead of east?
500
Names of all the ships in Columbus' expedition
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
500
Sturdy boats made by the Taino by hollowing out tree trunks with special tools
What are canoes?
500
Movement of people, plants, animals, and germs across the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Columbian exchange?
500
Deadliest seeds of change
What is smallpox?