Ancient Civilizations
North American Culture
Early Settlements
Exploration
Technological Advancements
100

This community was located in present-day Guatemala from 300-800 A.D.

Who are the Mayans?

100

Animal introduced to the Natives by the Spanish that changed their way of life.

What are horses?

100

This settlement was established in 1607 and became the first English colony in America.

What is the Jamestown settlement?

100

An exchange of animals, plants, diseases, and germs between Europeans and the Americas. 

What is the Columbian Exchange?

100

Invention that enabled people to share knowledge more quickly and widely.

What was the printing press?

200

Their capital was Tenochtitlan.

Who are the Aztecs?
200

The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other aspects of nature have spirits.

What is Animism?

200

Radical separatist group of English Protestants who settled in Plymouth in order to be left alone to lead a pure and religious life.

Who are the Pilgrims?

200

3 motives of Spanish of exploration in North America.

What is Gold, God, and Glory?

200

What allowed Columbus to easily take over the Natives and dominate the New World?

What are guns / gunpowder?

300

Located in Peru, this civilization created its own calendar.

Who are the Incas?

300

Smaller, less sophisticated societies during time relied on these crops for survival.

What are corn, beans, and squash?

300

15th century Portugal began trading to produce sugar and slave labor.

What is slave trading?

300

Established the permanent French settlement in America in 1608 at Quebec, along the St. Lawrence River. Gained the nickname "Father of New France".

Samuel de Champlain

300

Weapon developed by the Inuits for hunting seals and whales.

What is the harpoon?

400

The Hokokan, Anasazi, the Pueblo.

What were the tribes located in the American southwest?

400

Part of America where nomadic hunting occurred, farms, tepees, and earth lodges. Also known for having plenty of buffalo.

What are the Great Plains?

400

Lost colony in North Carolina founded in 1587.

What is the Roanoke Colony?

400

The treaty that divided trade routes in Asia between Spain and Portugal.

What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?

400

A small, fast Spanish sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries. More advanced and faster than previous ships.

What was the Caravel?

500

Native American Confederacy located in the Northeast comprised of 5 different tribes; the Mohawk, Onondaga, the Oneida, the Cayuga, and the Seneca.

What was the Iroquois Confederacy?

500

These 4 things transformed the North American environment before European colonization.

What are agriculture, architecture, trails, and tools.

500

Enslavement of Native Americans, death from war and disease, and displacement from European invaders.

What were the major consequences of European contact with Native Americans?

500

The explorer who is credited with the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

500

During the Renaissance, this invention used for navigation was adopted by Arab merchants who learned about it from the Chinese. 

What is the sailing compass?

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