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Explorers Vocab: Fast and Curious

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Social Studies

8th Grade

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Explorers Vocab: Fast and Curious
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 5 pts

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought

Mercantalism

Triangular Trade

Conquistador

Astrolabe

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 5 pts

instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars

map

astrolabe

astrology

rudder

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 5 pts

Media Image

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

Exploration

Conquistador

Middle Passage

Mercantilism

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 5 pts

A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

Treaty of Peace

Treaty of Tordesillas

Treaty of Tacos

Triangular Trade

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 5 pts

The regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas (Europe, Asia, Africa)

New World

Charter

Western Hemisphere

Old World

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 5 pts

The name given by Europeans to the Americas, which were unknown to most Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus

Old World

New World

Europe

Western Hemisphere

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 5 pts

The massive exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Old World and New World following Columbus's voyages.

Divine Exchange

Middle Passage

Columbian Exchange

European Exchange

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