European Explorers
Definitions
Native People
100

The first conquistador to land in the New World.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

An artifact, a document, or other source of information that someone was an eyewitness.

What is a Primary Source?
100

The final leader of the Aztec empire, before the conquistadors took over.

Who is Montezuma?

200

The first person to circumnavigate the globe.

Who is Ferdinand Magellen?

200

An act, a document, or other source of information where someone was not an eyewitness.

What is a Secondary Source?

200

This tribe in what is now New England, built huge shelters made of wood, they called "Longhouses".

Who are the Iriquois?

300

The first ever European to reach the New World.

Who is Leif Erikson?

300

The ability to be nice and caring.

What is morality?

300

This Empire was able to supply future generations with its large harvests of corn, as well as building giant stone heads within the ground.

Who are the Olmec?

400
Landed in South America, and conquered the Aztec emmpire.

Who is Hernan Cortes?

400

An individual with an excess amount of money.

What is wealthy?

400

Just like one oftheir predecessors, they farmed huge harvests of corn, and often battled with neighboring city states for supplies.

What is the Maya?

500

The first European to found the settlement of Greenland, northwest of Iceland.

Who is Erik the Red?

500

The ability to have authority over others and the world around you.

What is power?

500

The final empire within South America before the conqistadors took over, and eventually was overun by European diseases.

What is the Aztecs?

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