TCI Lesson 4 How and Why Europeans Came to the New World

Match the vocabulary word within the context of the sentence

A(n) --------- is a scientist who studies artifacts.

• archaeologist

• New World

• explorer

• cash crop

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A person who travels in search of new geographical information is called an ___.

• archaeologist

• New World

• explorer

• cash crop

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When Europeans encountered the Americas, they named this place the ____.

• archaeologist

• New World

• explorer

• astrolabe

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Tobacco was one type of valuable _____that could be sold.

• archaeologist

• New World

• cash crop

• astrolabe

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A(n) ______ is an early scientific tool used to observe the position of the sun and stars.

• archaeologist

• New World

• cash crop

• astrolabe

To study the past, an archaeologist specializes in learning from

• artifacts

• books

• interviews

• videos

The Age of Exploration began with a search for new trade routes to

• Africa

• America

• Asia

• Europe

Sailors used astrolabes to tell

• direction

• latitude

• speed

• time

“New World” was a name given to the Americas by

• spice traders.

• shipbuilders.

• American Indians.

• European colonizers.

A compass works by Earth’s

• large oceans.

• magnetic field.

• spinning on its axis.

• orbit around the sun.