Jeopardy Renaissance Slave Trade & Colonization Random $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Age of Exploration Reformation

$100 Renaissance Define the term “Renaissance Man”

$100 Answer An individual who is talented in many subjects.

$200 Renaissance What invention helped spread ideas throughout Europe?

$200 Answer The printing press

$300 Renaissance What was the Renaissance?

$300 Answer A time period in Europe where there were major developments in art, architecture, and the humanities

$400 Renaissance What was the printing press, who invented it, and what was the first work that was mass produced?

$400 Answer Machine that uses movable type (block letters) to mass produce written work. Gutenberg invented it and the Bible was the first mass produced book.

$500 Renaissance Identify a Renaissance man from Italy and from the Northern Renaissance and share one of his contributions.

$500 Answer

$100 Reformation Define indulgences

$100 Answer Paying for forgiveness for your sins.

$200 Reformation What were the 95 Theses?

$200 Answer 95 Criticisms or attacks against the Catholic Church

$300 Reformation Explain King Henry VIII influence in the Protestant Reformation.

$300 Answer The Church would not allow him to divorce his first wife so he created the Anglican Church of England that allowed for divorce.

$400 Reformation Who was Martin Luther and what is his significance to the Reformation?

$400 Answer He wrote the 95 Theses which criticized the Church for indulgences, corruption, and nepotism. He founded Lutheranism – a belief that an individual can have a direct relationship with God and does not need a priest or Pope to connect with God.

$500 Reformation Explain the Counter-Reformation and the response of the Catholic Church.

$500 Answer The Catholic Church reformed their practices to revive spirituality to help stop Protestantism from spreading.

$100 Slave Trade & Colonization What country colonized most of the Americas and is known for their poor treatment of the natives?

$100 Answer Spain

$200 Slave Trade & Colonization How did the Native Americans view European colonization?

$200 Answer Unfair, hostile forced control

$300 Slave Trade & Colonization What economic impact did the Trans-Saharan slave trade have on the continent of Africa?

$300 Answer Creation of wealthy and powerful nation-states

$400 Slave Trade & Colonization Identify a cause and effect of Imperialism

$400 Answer Cause – European countries wanting to be superior to colonial subjects Effect – Major European countries rival to politically, economically, and culturally dominate other nations in the world

$500 Slave Trade & Colonization Describe the trans-Saharan slave trade. Explain one political and one social effect.

$500 Answer The Trans-Saharan slave trade was the slave trade that took place in Africa. Slaves were transported across Sahara desert. Political effects: created wealthy nation states in Africa Social effects: Cultural diffusion, created servants (employees), classes in society were not racially based, rational for American slave trade

$100 Age of Exploration What country sponsored Christopher Columbus’ voyages?

$100 Answer Spain – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand

$200 Age of Exploration Who (the colony or parent country) benefits from mercantilism?

$200 Answer Parent country

$300 Age of Exploration Describe the Columbian Exchange

$300 Answer An exchange of goods, foods, animals, and diseases between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (Americas)

$400 Age of Exploration What were the main causes for European exploration?

$400 Answer European desire to find gold, markets, and trade routes

$500 Age of Exploration Identify and explain one effect from the Age of Exploration

$500 Answer Columbian Exchange Colonization Slave Trade

$100 Random Identify a famous work written by William Shakespeare

$100 Answer Hamlet, Romeo & Juilet, Macbeth, Midsummer’s Nights Dream

$200 Random List a few things exchanged between Europe and the Americas.

$200 Answer Europe: bananas, cattle, chickens, citrus fruits, coffee beans, grapes, horses, onions, peaches, pigs, rice, sugarcane, wheat. Americas: Beans, chocolate, corn, peanuts, pineapples, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, turkeys.

$300 Random What was the sketch of the human body by Leonardo DaVinci that illustrated proportions and contributed to science?

$300 Answer Vitruvian Man

$400 Random Contrast the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the Trans- Saharan slave trade

$400 Answer Trans-AtlanticTrans-Saharan -Slaves from West Africa transported across Atlantic -Mostly prisoners of wars or captives from slave raids -Endured Middle Passage – where they crossed Atlantic -Abused, poorly fed, cramped -Slaves from East Africa transported across Sahara Desert -Led to Slave raids -Led to spread of Islam -Contributed to the creation of powerful, wealthy African states

$500 Random Identify a technological improvement/invention and explain how it made exploration possible.

$500 Answer Compass- Maps- Improved Ships-

Final Jeopardy Define Mercantilism. Explain its cause and effect on the country and colony.

Final Jeopardy Answer Mercantilism: the theory that a country should do all it can to increase its wealth, which meant taking wealth from other countries. ColonyParent Country CauseParent country to control natural resources. Accumulate wealth and colonize land. EffectColumbian Exchange. Natives were exploited, had no political or economical independence. Columbian Exchange. Favorable balance of trade – export more than import. Profit. Overall effects: Exchange of goods between old world and new world, colonizing the new world, slave trade, European rivalries over trade or territories.