Native American Civilizations
Indians from the Southwest region, known as cliff dwellers
What is Pueblos?
A Portuguese ship with triangular and square sales designed to travel long journeys
What is a caravel?
Financed by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, this explorer sailed west in 1492 hoping to discover a shorter route to China and the Indies.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This animal proved to be the most beneficial to the Indians- making travel and carrying loads much easier.
What is a horse?
Explorers wrote in these to record their exploits and document their activities
What is a journal?
Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfeet and Comanche
What are the Plains Indian's tribes?
This useful magnetic instrument allowed the explorers to set and maintain an accurate course
What is a compass?
This conquistador destroyed the Aztecs capital city- Tenochtitlan and built Mexico City in its place.
The most destructive animal brought with the explorers. Ate Indians crops and brought diseases
What is a pig?
Explorers went on the search for this precious metal that would bring them great wealth
What is gold?
These North American Indians are known for building mounds that could reach heights of 18 feet and stretch over hundreds of acres of land.
What are Mound Builders?
What is an astrolabe?
Set up a school for navigation where Portuguese captains learned how to use new methods and instruments.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Smallpox, typhus and measles- Diseases that devastated Indian populations.
What are human-borne diseases?
Mythical king in Africa that the explorers hoped to find
Who is Prester John?
This Central American civilization built large pyramids in the middle of their cities
Who are the Mayas?
The invention of the printing press allowed these to be rapidly produced
What is maps?
This explorer and his crew rounded the Cape of Good Hope (the southern tip of Africa) and traded goods and bought spices in India that they sold to finance 60 more voyages.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Roman Catholic Friar who served as a missionary to the Indians and spoke out against their cruel treatment.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
Capital of the Incan empire
What is Cuzco?
Characterized by war and warriors, this people group worshipped many gods and practiced human sacrifice
Who are the Aztecs?
What are trade winds?
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This profitable crop had the greatest impact in the New World. It brought wealth to the settlers, but also depleted the soil and land.
What is tobacco?
A type of mound that is in the shape of an animal or object
What is an effigy mound?