1. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
Respectfully submitted by
C. Stephen Ingraham

2. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The resistance as to sickness or diseases is known as
immunity b) inoculation
c) innovation d) plaque

3. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
A new ship design using square or lateen sails and able to travel in heavy seas long distances.
a) caravan b) brig c) caravel d) schooner.

4. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
Spanish treasure seeking soldiers known as “Conquerors”.
a) reconquista b) reformation
c) conquistadors d) gladiators.

5. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
A fleet of warships
grand fleet b) armada
c) atahuallpa d) doge

6. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The route slave merchants used from Europe to Africa, to the Americas, and back to Europe forming a triangle shaped journey.
a) the great circle route
b) One sided slave trade
c) three sided trade
d) triangle trade.

7. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The second phase of triangle trade where
chained slaves are jammed into boats and shipped from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.
a) second chance b) second passage
c) middle passage d) the cruel voyage

8. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
A journey completely around the world is called
a) cross continent b) circumerferance
c) circumvoyage d) circumnavigate.

9. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
Huge farms growing sugarcane, pineapples, cotton, tobacco or coffee.
manor
b) serf-city
c) plantation
d) homestead

10. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americas.
a) the Euroamerican exchange
b) the barter system
c) the Columbian exchange
d) the Feudal system.

11. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The name given to Native Americans growing of different crops together beans, squash, & maize (corn).
Terrace farming
b) Irrigation farming
c) Intensive fertilization
d) Intercropping.

12. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The name of the earliest Native Central Americans who farmed the fertile river valleys along the coast of Gulf of Mexico.
a) Aztecs b) Incas c) Mayas d) Olmecs

13. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The name of the Native Central Americans who farmed the rainforests of the Yucatan Peninsula.
a) Aztecs b) Incas c) Mayas d) Olmecs

14. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The name given for the clearing of jungle rainforest to farm the low coastal land.
reclaim
b) acclaim
c) exclaim
d) intercropping.

15. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The Native Central Americans living on the Mexican plateau and their emperor was Motecuhzoma were known as
a) Aztecs b) Incas c) Mayas d) Olmecs

16. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
Native South Americans living in the Andes Mountains and their emperor was Atahuallpa were called.
a) Aztecs b) Incas c) Mayas d) Olmecs.

17. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The system of building walled gardens in the mountains to raise crops.
the Encomienda system
b) the Columbian system
c) the manor system
d) terrace farming.

18. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The system where Native Americans work for the Spanish colonists and accept their religion in exchange for food & fair treatment is known as
a) Columbian System
b) Feudal System
c) Slavery
d) Encomienda System.

19. Age of Exploration & Contact Vocabulary Challenge
The name given to the French trappers known as “Runners of the woods”.
a) fur couriers
b) coureurs de bois
c) voyeurs de forrest
d) monsieur de bois.