Ancient Civilizations
This community was located in present-day Guatemala from 300-800 A.D.
Who are the Mayans?
Animal introduced to the Natives by the Spanish that changed their way of life.
What are horses?
This settlement was established in 1607 and became the first English colony in America.
What is the Jamestown settlement?
An exchange of animals, plants, diseases, and germs between Europeans and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Invention that enabled people to share knowledge more quickly and widely.
What was the printing press?
Their capital was Tenochtitlan.
The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other aspects of nature have spirits.
What is Animism?
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?
3 motives of Spanish of exploration in North America.
What is Gold, God, and Glory?
What allowed Columbus to easily take over the Natives and dominate the New World?
What are guns / gunpowder?
Located in Peru, this civilization created its own calendar.
Who are the Incas?
Smaller, less sophisticated societies during time relied on these crops for survival.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
15th century Portugal began trading to produce sugar and slave labor.
What is slave trading?
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
Weapon developed by the Inuits for hunting seals and whales.
What is the harpoon?
The Hokokan, Anasazi, the Pueblo.
What were the tribes located in the American southwest?
Part of America where nomadic hunting occurred, farms, tepees, and earth lodges. Also known for having plenty of buffalo.
What are the Great Plains?
Lost colony in North Carolina founded in 1587.
What is the Roanoke Colony?
The treaty that divided trade routes in Asia between Spain and Portugal.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
A small, fast Spanish sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries. More advanced and faster than previous ships.
What was the Caravel?
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?
These 4 things transformed the North American environment before European colonization.
What are agriculture, architecture, trails, and tools.
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?
The explorer who is credited with the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
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?