Early Americas
The first people in North America were nomadic hunters & gatherers. What innovation allowed them to stay in one place?
Farming
Which famous trade route linked Europe, Africa, and Asia?
Silk Road
This country was the FIRST to send explorers to the Americas.
Spain
This man was the first European to reach the West Indies, although he believed he was in Asia.
Christopher Columbus
Asia & North America
Christianity is based on the teachings of this Jewish teacher from Nazareth who preached about salvation.
Jesus
This word means "the science of locating the position and plotting the course of ships."
Navigation
This man established a school for navigation, training people to become explorers.
Prince Henry the Navigator
These three civilizations developed the largest in the Americas.
Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans
This religion, founded by Muhammad, spread rapidly through conquest and trade.
Islam
Although Columbus incorrectly identified them as Indians, this group lived in the United States long before Europeans arrived.
Native Americans
(Indigenous people)
This man discovered that Columbus had not reached Asia, but that he had landed on continents that he would call "The New World".
Amerigo Vespucci
Disease
In Chapter 2, the Americas are referred to as the "New World." These continents are considered to be the "Old World."
Africa, Asia, and Europe
This Spanish conquistador was known for conquering the Aztec Empire.
Hernando Cortés (Cortez)
This man was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
This is the word used to describe the wooden homes built by many of the Iroquois tribes.
Longhouses
Our own government, a democratic republic, is primarily based on the ideas from these two classic civilizations.
Greek & Roman
This Spanish conquistador was responsible for the fall of the Inca in Peru?
Francisco Pizarro
Vasco Da Gama