SOCIAL STUDIES

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

a period of rebirth after the Middle Ages that began in Northern Italy and spread through Europe from the 1400s to the 1600s

Question 2

Johannes Gutenberg

Answer 2

invented the movable type in the 1400s which caused books to be printed and no longer copied by hand; people became more educated.

Question 3

Silk Road

Answer 3

an overland trade route running from China to the Black Sea in Europe, stretching over 5,000 miles to trade silks, spices, and jewels

Question 4

Africa

Answer 4

a continent rich in gold, diamonds, oil, salt, ivory, and slaves

Question 5

Italian City States

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Until the 1860s, the country of Italy was a nation of individual city states; some of the most important were Genoa, Florence, and Venice.

Question 6

Monopoly

Answer 6

exclusive control or rights to something; the Italians had a monopoly of trade in the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 7

Empire

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a group of countries or territories that are under the control of a single ruler (e.g. Spanish Empire, French Empire, British Empire)

Question 8

Colony/Colonies

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a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Question 9

Colonization (a/k/a Colonialism)

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the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area

Question 10

Old World

Answer 10

Europe, Africa and Asia

Question 11

Asia

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a/k/a The Indies and The Far East

Question 12

Commerce

Answer 12

Trade/commercial

Question 13

Leif Eriksson

Answer 13

viking who landed in present-day Canada in the year 1000

Question 14

Henry the Navigator

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Portuguese prince who established a school of navigation and paid for expeditions

Question 15

astrolable

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device used to determined location based on the position of the stars

Question 16

caravels

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Portuguese ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind. Had rudders to improve steering.

Question 17

Line of Demarcation

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boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New World

Question 18

Tready of Tordesillas (1494)

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a treaty between Spain and Portugal to move the line of Demarcation

Question 19

Doctrine of Discovery

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the idea that a country that explored a newly found land was entitled to own and rule it.

Question 20

circumnavigate

Answer 20

to travel all the way around the globe

Question 21

Colombian Exchange

Answer 21

the transfer of plants, animals, and disease between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa