INTENNNNSE JEOPARDY!
Unit 1 – Clash of Cultures
Renaissance
Protestant
Reformation
Native
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Culture
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Age of
Exploration
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RENAISSANCE - 10
1. What is the capital of Switzerland?
2. What is the capital of the Netherlands?
3. What is the capital of Italy?
RENAISSANCE (RES) – 10
1. Switzerland – Bern
2. Netherlands – Amsterdam
3. Italy – Rome
RENAISSANCE - 20
1. Who invented the printing press?
2. Who perfected the telescope?
3. Why were these inventions important to the
Renaissance?
RENAISSANCE (RES) – 20
1. Printing press: Johannes Gutenberg
2. Telescope: Galileo
3. These inventions were important to the
Renaissance because the printing press allowed
ideas to quickly spread and the telescope
allowed for people to see truth in the universe
for themselves. / These inventions allowed for
people to stop depending on just the Church for
information and just start depending on
themselves.
RENAISSANCE – 30
1. What does infallible mean?
2. What is the heliocentric model of the galaxy?
3. How did its’ discovery encourage skepticism
about the Catholic Church? Correctly use
infallible.
RENAISSANCE (RES) – 30
1. Infallible: Cannot be wrong.
2. Heliocentric model: Sun at the center of the
galaxy.
3. Its’ discovery encouraged skepticism about
the Church because the Church preached a
geocentric model and the invention of the
telescope allowed people to see the galaxy
was actually heliocentric, so the Church was
no longer infallible, as it was once thought.
RENAISSANCE – 40
1. Who was Wycliffe?
2. Who was Hus?
3. Why were they important to the Protestant
Reformation?
RENAISSANCE (RES) – 40
1. Wycliffe: First to translate the Bible into
vernacular (English)
2. Hus: First to fight to break away from the
Catholic Church
3. Importance: They inspired Martin Luther to
successfully break away from the Catholic
Church and start the Reformation.
RENAISSANCE – 50
1. Who was Martin Luther?
2. What were the 95 Theses?
3. Why would the Protestant Reformation have
been impossible to start before the invention
of the printing press? Must mention Hus and
Wycliffe.
RENAISSANCE (RES) – 50
1. Martin Luther: First to successfully break away
from the Catholic Church / started the
Protestant Reformation
2. 95 Theses: Luther’s list of complaints against the
Church
3. The Protestant Reformation would have been
impossible to start before the invention of the
printing press because ideas could not spread
fast enough without it, so the Catholic Church
could easily put a stop to a rebellion, like they
did with Wycliffe and Hus.
PROTESTANT REFORMATION – 10
1. Berlin is the capital of which country?
2. Dublin is the capital of which country?
3. Vatican City is the capital of which country?
PROTESTANT REFORMATION (RES) – 10
1. Berlin: Germany
2. Dublin: Ireland
3. Vatican City: Vatican City
PROTESTANT REFORMATION – 20
1. Other than the telescope, which Renaissance
invention had the biggest impact on the
Scientific Revolution?
2. How did this invention influence the
Scientific Revolution?
PROTESTANT REFORMATION (RES) – 20
1. Other than the telescope, the printing press
had the biggest impact on the Scientific
Revolution.
2. The printing press allowed for ideas to
scientists to quickly share information, which
would allow for inventions and discoveries to
take place quicker.
PROTESTANT REFORMATION– 30
1. What does vernacular mean?
2. Give an example of vernacular.
3. How would the invention of the printing
press lead to the Protestant Reformation?
Must correctly use vernacular.
PROTESTANT REFORMATION (RES) – 30
1. Vernacular: Spoken language
2. Example of vernacular: any language that is not
Latin, Pig Latin, or Chinese.
3. The invention of the printing press would lead to
the Protestant Reformation because people had
more access to books, including the Bible, that
were written in vernaculars. This made them
rely on themselves for information rather than
the Church, so they started to have different
ideas and the ideas spread too quickly for the
Church to stop them.
PROTESTANT REFORMATION – 40
1. Which economic system did the ideas from
the Protestant Reformation influence?
2. Explain the belief of that economic system.
3. How does this economic system affect the
United States?
PROTESTANT REFORMATION (RES) – 40
1. The Protestant Reformation influenced the
idea of capitalism.
2. Capitalism believes that people should own
property, and not the government.
3. Capitalism affects the United States because
we use this economic system.
PROTESTANT REFORMATION – 50
1. How did Luther and Quakers differ on the
idea of “all believers are equal”?
2. What was the Seneca Falls Conference?
3. How did the ideas from the Protestant
Reformation lead to women’s suffrage in the
United States? Must mention Seneca Falls
and religion.
PROTESTANT REFORMATION (RES) – 50
1. Luther believed that all MEN were equal in
church while the Quakers believed that all
PEOPLE, including women, were equal in church.
2. Seneca Falls Conference: the start of women’s
suffrage in the US
3. The ideas from the Protestant Reformation led
to women’s suffrage in the United States
because many of the women at the conference
were Quakers who believed that women were
equal EVERYWHERE, not just church.
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE –10
1. In which location of the Americas would you
find the Aztec Indians?
2. In which location of the Americas would you
find the Inca?
3. In which location of the Americas would you
find the Taino?
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE (RES) – 10
1. Aztec: Central Mexico
2. Inca: Western part of South America / Peru
3. Taino: Caribbean Islands
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE – 20
1. From which continent did the original Native
Americans come?
2. How did the original Native Americans get to
the Americas (be specific)?
3. Explain how the climate of the time allowed
for the original Native Americans to come
into the Americas.
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE (RES) – 20
1. They originally came from Asia.
2. They walked on the Bering Strait to get to the
Americas.
3. The climate of the time was extremely cold
(Ice Age), which meant the Bering Strait,
which is now water, was frozen over, allowing
them to walk across it.
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE – 30
1. In which location of the Americas would you
find the Maya Indians?
2. In which location of the Americas would you
find the Iroquois?
3. In which location of the Americas would you
find the Mississippi?
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE (RES) – 30
1. Maya: Southern Mexico to northern Central
America
2. Iroquois: Canada, US
3. Mississippi: Midwestern, Eastern, and
Southeastern part of the US
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE – 40
1. What does resilience mean?
2. Give an example of how the original Native
Americans proved to be resilient during their
early days.
3. What percentage of the current US
population is Native American?
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE (RES) – 40
1. Resilience: toughness
2. Examples of resilience include: building fires,
constructing insulated houses, making warm
clothes – all in FREEZING temperatures. /
Spreading across the Americas without
wheeled vehicles or riding animals.
3. 1.2% of the current US population is Native
Americans.
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE – 50
“Man has responsibility, not power.”
1. What does this quote mean?
2. How does it connect to Carl Sagan’s “Pale,
Blue Dot”?
3. How does it connect with Malala’s fight for
education?
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE (RES) – 50
“Man has responsibility, not power.”
1. This quote means that we have the illusion of being able
to control the world but really we are only supposed to
take care of one another and our world.
2. This connects to “Pale, Blue Dot” because Sagan’s
message was that we only have one world and one
people, and we must take care of one another since there
is no where else for use to go.
3. This connects to Malala’s story because even though she
no longer lives in Pakistan and can receive a great
education, she still feels responsible for the girls there
who need an education, and she fights for them.
AGE OF EXPLORATION – 10
1. In which region of Latin America would you
find Mexico?
2. In which region of Latin America would you
find Haiti?
3. In which region of Latin America would you
find Peru?
4. In which region of Latin America would you
find Costa Rica?
AGE OF EXPLORATION (RES) – 10
1.
2.
3.
4.
Mexico: North America
Haiti: Caribbean Islands
Peru: South America
Costa Rica: Central America
AGE OF EXPLORATION – 20
1. Who was the first conquistador to meet
Native Americans?
2. What was the first group of Native Americans
that Europeans met?
3. What two ways were Native Americans
annihilated? Explain how each destroyed
them.
AGE OF EXPLORATION (RES) – 20
1. The first conquistador to meet them was
Columbus.
2. The first Native Americans that were met
were Taino/Arawak.
3. They were annihilated through war
(Europeans had superior weapons) and
disease (Natives had no immunity to
European diseases).
AGE OF EXPLORATION– 30
1. Why is Bartolome de las Casas famous?
2. Explain the three different views he took
over time in relation to slavery, in the order
that he believed them. Mention African
slavery
AGE OF EXPLORATION (RES) – 30
1. De las Casas is famous because he was one of
the first Europeans to fight against ill-treatment
of Native Americans and slavery in general.
2. At first he believed it was okay for Natives to be
slaves. Then, he saw how slavery affected them
and he wanted Africans to be used as slaves
instead, believing they were stronger. Finally, he
saw that slavery in general was terrible and he
wanted it abolished.
AGE OF EXPLORATION – 40
1. How did the Catholic Church treat the Jews
and Moors (Muslims) in Europe, according to
APHOTUS?
2. How would the Catholic Church’s way of
dealing with different beliefs predict the
relationship that conquistadors would have
with Native Americans?
AGE OF EXPLORATION (RES) – 40
1. They kicked out and/or killed Jews and Moors
because they had different beliefs.
2. Their way of dealing with different beliefs
predicted the relationship that conquistadors
would have with Native Americans because
the conquistadors saw the Natives as
different and wanted to conquer them/had
no respect for them.
AGE OF EXPLORATION – 50
1. Describe Spain’s social structure (nobility vs.
peasants) at the time that Colum left Europe
to go to the New World.
2. What was Columbus’ social status in Europe?
3. How did Spain’s social structure influence
Columbus to explore “unknown oceans”?
AGE OF EXPLORATION (RES) – 50
1. At the time, Spain’s nobility was tiny (2% of the
population) and owned most of the land (95%)
while the peasants made up a large percentage
(98%) but owned very little (5%).
2. At the time, Columbus was not a noble – he
worked and was part of the peasant class.
3. Spain’s social structure influenced Columbus
because he wanted to make his own money and
become rich so that he could be like the nobles.
RANDOM – 10
1. What were the main motives of European
exploration?
2. Give an example how Columbus and his men
used all three motives with the Native
Americans.
RANDOM (RES) – 10
1. The main motives were gold, God, and glory.
2. They searched for gold (riches) with the
Native Americans, they tried to turn them
into Christians, and they became famous
(Columbus even got titles) for “discovering”
Natives.
RANDOM – 20
• Explain the legend of “The Two Wolves”. You
must include the lesson. You must include
how it can apply to our lives.
RANDOM (RES) – 20
• In the legend, a son told his grandfather of the
problems he had with his temper. The
grandfather explained that everyone has two
wolves inside of them, one who is good and kind,
and the other which is bad and mean. The one
that wins is the one that we feed.
• The lesson is that we each have choices to make
about being good or bad.
• It can apply to our lives because we need to
choose which actions we are willing to make in
order to become good or bad.
RANDOM – 30
1. Which Central American country connects to
South America?
2. Which Caribbean Island does the US own?
3. Which is the largest South American country?
RANDOM (RES) – 30
1. The Central American country that connects
to South America is Panama.
2. The Caribbean Island that the US owns is
Puerto Rico.
3. The largest South American country is Brazil.
RANDOM – 40
• “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts
absolutely.”
1. How did the Spaniards treat the Tainos?
2. How does this quote relate to this
treatment?
RANDOM (RES) – 40
• “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
1. The Spaniards needlessly killed people for fun, rode
on their backs like animals, forced them to work in
mines and bring back impossible amounts of gold,
etc.
2. This quote relates to this treatment because the
Spaniards knew they could get away with whichever
treatment they chose. They chose to make the lives of
the Natives miserable simply because they could.
RANDOM – 50
1. What is Howard Zinn’s criticism of how we
treat the historical account of European
exploration of the Americas?
2. Why does Zinn believe it is an “ideological
choice”?
RANDOM (RES) – 50
1. Zinn’s criticism is that we celebrate and glorify
people who did so much bad in the world – even
to the point of killing off an entire people. We
pretend that it is heroism when we explain it to
children instead of telling them the truth.
2. He believes it is an ideological choice we could
choose to tell the truth about the genocide but
because we don’t, we justify what was done.