Vocabulary
THIS process is used to bring water to a place where normally there isn't any water. The Mayan and Incan people used this to allow them to grow crops on mountains.
What is irrigation?
What are landforms?
One theory for how the first Americans arrived is that they walked here from Asia across THIS 13,000 years ago.
What is the Beringia Land Bridge?
One big motivation for exploration and emigration was to escape the power of THIS, which investigated and tortured non-believers during the Spanish Inquisition.
What is the Church?
An unintentional consequence brought by the Europeans to the Americas, THIS wiped out 90% of the Native American population.
What is disease?
People who have chosen to leave their home country in order to have a better life in a different country have done THIS.
What is emigrated?
Humid Continental, Humid Subtropical, Marine West Coast, Highland, Mediterranean, Arid, and Semiarid are all examples of THESE kinds of regions.
What are climate regions?
The Paleo-Indians were THESE, which meant they moved from place to place looking for food.
New discoveries in navigation and THIS, during the Renaissance, helped Europeans to be able to explore lands further than they had before, including the Americas.
What is mapmaking?
Native Americans who were "convinced" to convert to Christianity and found themselves at missions run by European missionaries, were forced to give up THESE.
What is their culture, ceremonies, and traditions?
THIS means to take over or defeat a group of people or land--usually by force.
What is conquer?
Livestock and THIS are the two main economic industries in the Central and Great Plains.
What is farming?
The Anasazi and Hopewell Indians both used THIS to provide some of the food for their tribes, in addition to hunting.
What is farming?
THIS explorer is often credited with "discovering" America in 1492, but did not actually reach the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
THIS system gave Europeans the right to control Native Americans and force them to work farming and mining gold, so they could make money.
What is the Encomienda system?
THIS is a journey or trip taken by a group of people for a specific reason, especially that of exploration, scientific research, or war.
What is an expedition?
You will not find mountain lions in THIS landform region, because there are no trees for them to hide in.
What are the Plains?
The cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo may have looked a lot like THESE modern residences, with multiple levels, living spaces for multiple families, and balconies.
What are apartment buildings?
The expansion of the Ottoman Empire meant that Europeans needed a different route to get to THESE 2 countries in order to trade goods.
What is China and India?
What are power and money?
A community of plants and animals and the environment in which they live.
What is an ecosystem?
THIS climate region is known for mild temperatures, where it's cloudy and rainy all year round.
What is Marine West Coast?
Because there were no trees in the plains, the tribes in the Great Plains had to use THIS unusual source of fuel as a source of heat.
What are dried buffalo droppings?
The Americas were named after Amerigo Vespucci after he realized the land he saw was not THIS place.
What is India?
The 2 main differences between THESE was that one's work term was 4-7 years and the other's was for life.
What are indentured servants and enslaved people?