Migration Theories
The land bridge theory suggests that...
What is hunting groups traveled to North America across a narrow strip of land?
Type of house the Anasazi lived in with ladders going up and down multiple levels.
What is a pueblo?
This tribe ruled a large empire in what is now Mexico.
The European explorer who discovered the New World but thought it was India.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
A device for finding direction invented by the Chinese.
What is a compass?
The continent that was connected to North America by the land bridge.
What is Asia?
Best known Northwest Coast Native Americans with the same name as a salmon.
Who are the Chinooks?
South American empire using a system of roads to connect its large network of cities.
Who are the Incas?
He was called the "explorer who stayed home" and he helped develop navigation schools in Portugal.
Who was Prince Henry?
Someone who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
The name of the land bridge.
What is Beringia?
This tribe built dugout canoes to hunt whales.
Who are the Makahs?
Interest in this country increased as Europeans began to read "The Travels of Marco Polo".
What is China?
The first European explorer to realize that the New World was not Asia but a new continent.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
A ship that used square or triangular sails to travel long distances quickly.
What is a caravel?
The Early Arrival theory suggests that...
What is early people came to North America by boat?
Name a tribe that was from the Eastern Woodlands.
Who are the Algonquians or Iroquois?
When land routes closed, explorers began sailing around this continent to reach Asia.
What is Africa?
The first known explorer to sail all the way around the world, proving it is in fact round.
A device used to keep very accurate time.
What is a chronometer?
This theory suggests that early Native Americans always lived here.
What is an Origin Story?
The kind of party Northwest Coast Native Americans held to show off their wealth.
What is a potlatch?
The sailing journey around Africa was dangerous, and the scientific theory of the world being round led early European explorers to look for this.
What is a western route to Asia?
The Spanish explorer who discovered Florida and thought he had found the "Fountain of Youth".
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
An instrument used to calculate the positions of the sun, moon, and stars.
What is an astrolabe?