Asian hunter and gatherers crossed this migrating to populate the American continents.
What is the Bering Strait?
100
Sailing in the ocean blue in 1492, he landed in the Caribbean.
Who is Columbus?
100
Period of time before the written record.
What is pre-history?
100
Native Americans used these to explain where they came from and who created them.
What are creation myths?
200
This Native American culture created a large city center at Cahokia and created large ceremonial centers made of dirt.
Who are the moundbuilders?
200
He established trade with India for Portugal in the late 1400's.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
200
Native American myths and stories were shared from one generation to the next in this tradition versus writing their stories.
What is the oral tradition?
200
This Native group created a great civilization in present day Mexico with a capital city at Tenochtitlan, built pyramids, kept time on calendars, and practiced human sacrifice.
Who are the Aztec?
300
Native Americans That lived in this region of North America hunted the buffalo, were fierce warriors, and followed the buffalo herds in a nomadic lifestlye.
What are the Great Plains?
300
He explored Florida in search of the "fountain of youth" and established the oldest city in North America at St. Augustine.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
300
The Native American name for the staple food crop of corn.
What is maize?
300
This Native American Empire was located in the Andes Mountain range of South America.
Who are the Inca?
400
An exchange of goods between the "Old World" and the "New World" brining new food crops and animals to each continent in trade exchanges.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
He defeated the mighty Aztec Empire with the help of other native tribes who resented the tributes they had to pay the Aztec along with their practice of human sacrifice.
Who is Cortez?
400
Across the globe this transition from nomadic hunting and gathering to farming occurred across the globe.
What is the Agricultural Revolution or the Neolithic Revolution?
400
Spanish conquistador who defeated the mighty Incan Empire after he captured the Incan emperor, held him ransom, and when he was paid, killed the emperor anyway.
Who is Pizarro?
500
A belief that nature and animals hold supernatural powers.
What is animism?
500
He established the city of Quebec in 1608 as a fur trade port and defensive fort to protect French claims in what is now Canada.
Who is Samuel Champlain?
500
Planting and harvesting enough food to survive.
What is subsistent farming?
500
Native American tribes such as the Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw were called the "Five Civilized Tribes" and lived in this region of what is now the United States.