Week 3 Early Humans
This was a type of stone used to make early tools, such as arrowheads, spear tips, scrapers, and knives
Flint
A canoe made from digging out the middle of a large log
Dugout Canoe
The trade route between Europe and Asia
The Silk Road
A crop grown to be sold for a profit
Cash Crop
Someone who agrees to learn a trade and work in exchange for room and board
An Apprentice
What is the capital of Idaho?
Boise
What were the earliest tools humans had?
Their hands
A picture carved into rock that represented beliefs, tribal stories, and significant events
Petroglyph
Groups of traders that traveled together
Caravans
Pirates who were protected by a country and could legally sell captured goods
Privateers
A crop grown in large quantities to sell for profit
Cash crop
The capital of this state is Lincoln
Nebraska
Scientists who study the evidence people leave behind
Archaeologists
A type of volcanic glass used to make tools such as arrowheads, spearheads, knives
Obsidian
The trade that began in 1492 between Europe and the Americas
The Columbian Exchange
A special license that made a pirate a privateer; It was given to ships by European monarchs; This license allowed the crew to legally capture ships and seize the goods on board and protected them from punishment
Letter of Marque
A legal document given by the king that gave land to a company or individual to create a colony
Charter
The capital of this state is Olympia
Washington
People who wandered from place to place to find resources
Nomads
The constitution of the Iroquois people
The Great Law of Peace
Map making is also known as ____________.
Cartography
It is estimated that diseases such as smallpox and influenza brought by Europeans killed what % of the native population?
90%
Men and women whose journey from England to the colonies was paid for by another person in exchange, they agreed to work for that person for a certain number of years
Indentured servants
What is the capital of South Carolina?
Columbia
This land bridge connected Asia and North America
Bering Strait
Small mounds for growing crops
This explorer was sponsored by Portugal; He landed in what is now South America and sailed around the southern tip of Africa to reach India
Pedro Cabral
Exploration of the Americas created a new market where traders would sell enslaved people from Africa to work on _____________ plantations in the Caribbean
Sugar
He was persecuted in England for being Catholic; he founded the colony of Maryland as a safe place for Catholics to live in the colonies
George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
The capital of this state is Sacramento
California