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| Question | Answer |
| Two generations after the ________, 150,000 settlers cling to the edge of a vast _________. | Mayflower wildnerness |
| How long have the Puritans been in New England? | 30 years |
| How long have the Wabenaki been in New England? | 12,000 years |
| How many hunter-gathers live across the planet in the 17th century? | 55 million |
| In the New World, Native Americans out number settlers by nearly __ to __. It's _______. | 6 to 1 war |
| What Lewis child survives the Wabenaki attack? | Mercy Lewis |
| 1692, Salem, _____. A community in meltdown. ____ year-old Martha Corey. Devout Christian and church goer, on trial for her ______. | MA 65 life |
| Mercy Lewis, and ___ other women and girls, claim Corey is a _______. Haunting their ________, hurting them without touching them. ________ testifies. | 9 witch dreams Mercy |
| What religious group do the people of Salem belong to? | Puritans |
| True or False. The Puritans blame God for famine, disease and conflict. | False |
| How many are put to death in the 300-year-long witch hunting frenzy of the West? | 45,000 |
| Five people in _______ have already been accused. Now it is Martha Corey's word against her ___________ accusers. Martha's only hope is that the _______ will see through the girls' hysteria. | Salem teenage judge |
| In Salem, over ____ people are accused of witchcraft, among them, a four-year-old girl. _____ executions. _____ years later, one teenager withdraws her testimony, claiming to have been deceived by _________. | 100 20 14 Satan |
| What happens to Martha Corey? | shes hanged |
| True or False. Salem is among the last of the mass witch hunts. | True |
| Now the hunt for _________ is opening up the wilderness, beckoning a new breed of ________ in search of the earth's natural ________. Hunters, frontiersmen. | profit pioneer resources |
| How much larger than the U.S.A. is Siberia? | 1.5 times |
| What commodity will reshape the world? | fur |
| True or False. In the early 1700's the earth was experiencing a mini heat wave with the hottest temperatures in 10,000 years. | False (ice age) |
| Who were the Evenki? | hunter-gathers |
| What are the Evenki arrow tips made out of? | reindeer antler |
| What gives pioneers the edge over ancient cultures? | the gun |
| Invented in _______. Developed in Europe. Now, being mass-produced using _____ _____, production skyrockets 10,000%. | China cast iron |
| How much faster is the muzzle velocity of a gun than the velocity of an arrow? | 7 times |
| The wildnerness is being _______. Hunter-gathers displaced. A conflict playing out across the ________. | tamed planet |
| True or False. The fur trade opens up Russia and the North American wildnerness. | True |
| What new commercial captial is created because of the fur trade? | New York |
| True or False. Only one in five ships transporting the natural resources of the New World make it safely to Europe. | False |
| Sailors navigate by measuring the angles bewtween the ______ and the stars and comparing them with ______ charts, but these charts are basic and inaccurate. | moon star |
| One man will transform __________: astronomer to the English King, John Flamsteed. He'll unlock the keys to _______ trade and exploration by buliding his mural arc. | navigation global |
| For ___ months, Flamsteed has been building his mural arc, a __________ moved by a precision gearing system that measures the _______ of the stars in the night sky. | 14 telescope angle |
| In today's money, how much does Flamsteed personally spend to bring his dream to life? | 250,000 (1/4 million) |
| Flamsteed gives each _____ a unique marker. 28,000 measurements recording their exact positon, tripling the number of known start to nearly ________. The greatest breakthrough in navigation since the ________. | star 3,000 compass |
| How much more accurate is the star chart than before? | 15 times |
| Who was mankind's greatest explorer? | Captain James Cook |
| What was the name of Cook's ship? | the Endeavour |
| What ocean do they cross? | Pacific |
| What continent do Cook and his crew discover? | Australia |
| How long ago did the Aborigine's settle this continent? | 50,000 years ago |
| True or False. The Aborigine's have the oldest living culture in the world. | True |
| Who does Cook claim the land for? | British Empire |
| Cook and his crew discover an __________ like no other. The biggest _______ on earth. A continent with its ______ unique evolution. _______ of its mammals found nowhere else on earth. | ecosystem island own 85% |
| What man recorded all of the mammals and plants found in Australia? | Joseph Banks |
| How many plants does he collect on the expedition? | over 30,000 |
| What was so special about the cargo the Endeavour carried back to Britain? | animals and plants unknown to science |
| What happens to the Endeavour five weeks into the voyage? | hits a reef and begins to sink |
| As the men try to lighten the ship and refloat her, what is the only thing they wont throw overboard? | scientific samples |
| What is below Cook's ship? | The Great Barrier Reef |
| Over ____ epic voyages, Cook maps Australia, ____ __________, the Pacific Ocean, and the Americas. More of the ________ than any other explorer. | 3 New Zealand world |
| Over ____ epic voyages, Cook maps Australia, ____ __________, the Pacific Ocean, and the Americas. More of the ________ than any other explorer. | 3 New Zealand world |
| What man is bringing the Scientific Revolution to America? | Benjamin Franklin |
| What destructive force of nature had mankind lived in fear of since the dawn of time? | lightning |
| True or False. A lightning strike is a powerful as a ton of TNT and is five times hotter than the sun. | True |
| Franklin believes lightning is a form of what? | electricity |
| What does Franklin use to test his theory? | a kite with a metal wire at the top and a metal key at the base |
| From clouds, _______ electricity. The first ______ that lightning is electricity. | static proof |
| What invention comes out of Franklin's discovery? | the lightning rod |
| An isolated rebellion in a New England ____________ will erupt into war. | lumberyard |
| True or False. Ebenezer Mudgett made his fortune from wood. | True |
| What is the American settler's greatest source of profit? | forest |
| A third of all British _______ are built in New England. One war ship uses ________ trees and costs the equivalent of a modern _________ carrier. | ships 6,000 aircraft |
| In Boston, there is ____ British redcoat for every ____ citizens. | 1 4 |
| What do colonists protest against? | heavy taxes |
| What face off with British soldiers kills five civilians? | The Boston Massacre |
| True or False. Mudgett supports the fact that the biggest trees are set aside for British ships by law. | False |
| Sheriff Benjamin Whiting charges Mudgett with doing what? | stealing the king's wood |
| True or False. The Pine Tree Riot was an event in which Mudgett and his men attacked Sheriff Whiting and Deputy Quigley by striking them one time for every tree Mudgett was charged with stealing. | True |
| A year later in _______, Rebels destroy one million dollars' worth of ____, one of the most famous acts of resistance in American history. | Boston tea |
| What war begins in Lexington in 1775? | The Revolutionary War/The American Revolution/The War of Independence |
| In 1776 in Philadelphia, what does the Second Continental Congress vote to adopt? | The Declaration of Independence |
| Who edited this document? | Benjamin Franklin |
| In less than two centuries, mankind has opened up the __________ and mapped the planet, prospering from its natural __________. The Scientific Revolution has given rise to the ________ world. | wilderness resources modern |
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