Global Age Jeopardy!!Conquest of

Americas (No Multiple Choice)

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Italian Explorer, sailing for Spain, who reached the Americas 1492 while searching for a western sea route from Europe to Asia

Christopher Columbus

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A scattering of people

Diaspora

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Spanish explorer who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s and 1600s

Conquistador

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Mapmaker

Cartographer

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The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa beginning with the voyages of Columbus

Columbian Exchange

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A Muslim empire in India (1526-1761) founded by Babur; ruled most of northern India from the mid-1500s to the mid 1700s.

Mughal

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Ruling dynasty of the Ottoman Empire (1293-1922); named for Osman I, the founder; at the Empire’s height, the Ottomans ruled a vast area that encompassed southwest Asia, northeast Africa, and southeast Europe.

A. Ottoman

B. Inca

C. Safavid

D. Mali

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Dynasty established by the Manchus in the mid 1600s and lasted until the early 1900s; Chinas last dynasty

A. MaliB. TokugawaC. MingD. Qing

Qing

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The King of Spain appointed viceroys, which were ________?

Representatives who rules in his name.

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As Mali weakened in the 1400s, this new West African kingdom emerged; controlled trade routes, wealthy cities and became a leading center for learning; prospered until about 1586.

A. Songhai

B. Safavid

C. Ming

D. Mali

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The American word slave comes from the large number of _______________ taken from southern Russia to work as unpaid laborers in Roman times.

Slavs

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Person in Spain’s colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendent of Spanish settlers.

A. Peninsulares

B. Creole

C. Mulatto

D. Mestizo

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In Spain’s colonies in the Americas, a person who was of African and European descent.

A. Peninsulares

B. Creole

C. Mulatto

D. Mestizo

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Members of the highest class in Spains colonies in the Americas; colonists who were born in Spain or Portugal.

A. Peninsulares

B. Creole

C. Mulatto

D. Mestizo

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Person in Spain’s colonies in the Americas who was of Native American and European descent

A. Peninsulares

B. Creole

C. Mulatto

D. Mestizo

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Portuguese navigator; his ships were the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he died on the journey.

A. Hernan CortesB. Sir Francis DrakeC. Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan

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Prince of Portugal and patron of exploration; he made no voyages himself but spend his life directing voyages of discovery along the African coast.

A. Francis DrakeB. Vasco de GamaC. Las CasasD. Henry the Navigator

Henry the Navigator

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Portuguese navigator; in 1497-1499, he became the first European to sail around Africa and reach India by sea.

A. Vasco da GamaB. Christopher ColumbusC. MagellanD. Sir Francis Drake

Vasco da Gama

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Founder of the Ottoman Empire

Osman I

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Emperor of the Qing dynasty from 1735 to 1796; during his reign, China expanded to its greatest size. He limited foreign contacts and ordered traders to conduct business with the Chinese government, not with private merchants.

Qianlong

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Someone sent to do religious work in a territory or foreign country.

Missionary

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To proceed completely around

Circumnavigate

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South American empire stretching 2,500 miles down the Andes Mountains and along the Pacific coast; created one of the great road systems in history- even more extensive than that of ancient Rome; fell to the Spanish in the 1500s.

A. Inca

B. Maya

C. Aztec

D. Indian

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A group of islands in eastern Indonesia; was the center of the spice trade in the 1500s and 1600s.

Moluccas

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 Early civilization in Central America

A. AztecB. MaliC. MayaD. Mestizo

Maya

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Large estate run by an owner or overseer and worked by laborers who live there

Plantation

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A line set by the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the non European world into two zones, one controlled by Spain and the other by Portugal.

Line of Demarcation

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In 1603, Tokugawa leyasu founded the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan until 1868; Tokugawas brought peace and stability to Japan; experienced sharp conflict with foreigners arriving in the 1500’s.

Tokugawa

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Several hundred years after the decline of the Maya civilization, the Aztecs conquered most of Mexico; by 1500, the Aztec empire numbered about 30 million people; would eventually be conquered by the Spanish.

A. MaliB. MayaC. AztecD. Inca

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West African kingdom that emerged by 1250; controlled both the gold mining regions to the south and the salt supplies of the Sahara; weakened in the 1400’s

Mali

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