Native Americans
Historians believe the first peoples of the Americas crossed over this land bridge.
What is the Bering Land Bridge.
Most Africans lived off of this activity.
What is hunting and gathering?
This horrific disease in which victims are covered in black sores reduced Europe's population by 75% in some places.
What is the bubonic plague (or Black Death)?
This Canadian region still has French as its official language.
What is Quebec?
This term refers to the massive change in Native American life, from hunting and gathering to farming.
What is the agricultural revolution?
This powerful people inhabited what is now Mexico.
Who are the Aztecs?
Many west Africans would eventually be forced into this role.
What is slave(s)?
This French word means "rebirth", and refers to the renewal of art, literature, religion, and science in the 16th century.
What is "Renaissance?"
The French in Canada made money through this activity (not good for animals).
What is the fur trade?
Native American homes in the southwest were built out of this material.
What is adobe?
Many native tribes lived along this mighty river in North America.
What is the Mississippi?
It was possible to end slavery through this grueling activity.
What is manual labor?
This European invention allowed sailors to tell time by the sun.
What is an astrolabe?
This region, once claimed by France and named for a famous king, is now a US southeastern state.
What is Louisiana?
This Portuguese invention referred to a fast sailing ship with many sails.
What is a caravel?
Every Native American tribe was headed by this position.
What is a chief?
This European country was the first to explore west Africa.
What is Portugal?
Most Native Americans died from this cause (after European contact).
What is "disease?"
This term is Spanish for "conqueror."
What is "conquistador?"
Most European kings and queens wanted to explore for this reason.
What is they wanted more land?
This tribe was located in present day Arizona.
Who are the Apache?
These items were traded by the people of west Africa with the Europeans.
What are gold and ivory?
This (named after a famous explorer) refers to the global exchange of living things across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
European explorers were looking for this (now mythical) waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This term refers to the drawing of maps.
What is cartography?