History Detectives
This type of source was created during the time being studied by someone who experienced or witnessed the event.
What is a primary source?
This theory explains that early peoples migrated into the Americas across a land bridge connecting Asia and North America.
What is the Beringian Land Bridge Theory?
This Aztec city was built on an island in Lake Texcoco and became the center of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Europeans wanted to find new routes to Asia partly because they wanted valuable goods such as these.
What are spices?
In this year, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic and reached the Americas.
What is 1492?
When historians study why something happened and what happened because of it, they are studying this historical relationship.
What is cause and effect?
The environment in which a society lives can influence how its people do this in order to survive.
What is adapt to their environment?
These were floating agricultural plots used by the Aztecs to grow crops.
What are chinampas?
This city was an important connection between Europe and Asia and played a role in Europeans seeking new trade routes.
What is Constantinople?
These were the three ships Columbus took on his famous 1492 voyage.
What are the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
A historian should consider this when asking why a source was created and what the creator hoped to accomplish.
What is purpose?
This Indigenous group lived in the Arctic region of North America.
Who are the Inuit?
The Maya are especially known for advances in these two areas.
What are mathematics and calendars?
This famous traveler helped increase European interest in Asia through his accounts of his travels.
Who is Marco Polo?
This explorer is connected to Florida in the Age of Exploration.
Who is Ponce de León?
Two historians can study the same event but interpret it differently because of their evidence, perspective, and this larger process of writing and interpreting history.
What is historiography?
This Indigenous group is associated with the OR, WA, and northern CA.
Who are the Haida?
The Iroquois Confederacy used councils and representatives to help govern its member nations. This made it an important example of what?
What is representative government?
These three words summarize major motivations for European exploration.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
When historians examine Columbus's diary, they should consider his goals, perspective, and this potential problem with his account.
What is bias?
You are given a diary written by an explorer. Before deciding whether the diary gives an unbiased account, you examine who wrote it, why it was written, who it was written for, and the author's point of view. What historical skill are you practicing?
What is evaluating a primary source?
This Indigenous society is known for its cliff dwellings and kivas in the American Southwest.
Who are the Ancestral Pueblo?
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca lived in different regions of the Americas. What factor most strongly influenced the way each civilization developed its agriculture?
What is its environment/geography?
This person criticized the treatment of Indigenous peoples by the Spanish and is an important figure to know when studying the consequences of exploration.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
Plants, animals, people, and diseases moved between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after European contact. What is this exchange called?
What is Columbian Exchange?