TERMS
THIS is what formed during the last Ice Age that allowed people from Asia to follow game from Asia into North America
A landbridge
He was a merchant who turned into an explorer, travelling to Asia and later returning to tell his stories
Marco Polo
This country hired Columbus to sail for them and gave him 3 ships on his first voyage.
Spain
Tenochtitlan (AKA techno-chicken) was the name of this native groups captial
Aztec
This was the name of the area early Native Americans crossed in order to get to North America
Beringia
This invention of the Islamic world was very important to the Age of Exploration when sailors tried to navigate the oceans and find their latitude.
Astrolabe
This conquistador was responsible for conquering the Incan empire with just 168 men and some horses.
Pizarro
This country was more interested in trade with Africa for Gold and was the first to make it round the Cape of Good Hope and reach India
Portugal
This group had an empire that stretched thousands of miles from almost across the entire continent of South America with rope bridges and stone-paved roads that connected the empire.
Inca
This was the primary crop the allowed early Americans to move from a culture based on hunter to one of farming
maize
This agreement allowed the Spanish and the Portuguese to avoid war and know where their possessions were in the New World
The Treaty of Tordesillas
John Cabot, originally from Italy, sailed for England, and landed on Newfoundland, giving England a claim on the __________ ____________ continent.
North American
They employed Henry Hudson who sailed up the Hudson river and explored Hudson bay.
The Dutch (Netherlands)
Both the Maya and the Aztec had priests and made this the center of the societies and way of life.
Religion
This animal brought by the Spanish was sometime mistaken for a large dog or deer without antlers that gave them a major advantage in battle.
Horse
This was known as a major period of intellectual and artistic creativity that spread throughout Europe where people had a interest in learning and knowledge
The Renaissance
This prince of Portugal set up a sailing school in Sarges. The school brought together astronomers, mathematicians, map makers, and navigators to advance Portuguese voyages of exploration and help sail to Asia
Henry the Navigator
Their settlement of New Amsterdam was founded on what is now the island of Manhattan in New york City
The Dutch (Netherlands)
This group of Native Americans lived in an area primarily within New York state and became one of the most powerful native groups in the Eastern woodlands after the 5 tribes formed a confederacy.
Iroquois
This invention allowed Marco Polo to tell is story that inspired the age of exploration and people like Columbus
Printing Press
Rights granted by the Spanish gov't for conquistadors to force Native Americans living on the lands claimed by the Spanish to demand taxes and labor turning NA's into slaves.
encomiendas
This Frenchmen explored and founded the city of Quebec in Canada
Samuel de Champlain
These 3 countries from Europe made it a priority to explore North of the Portugese and Spainish claims looking for the fabled Northwest passage to Asia.
England, France and the Netherlands
These Native Americans lived in the far north of North America, wore clothes made of seal skin, and lived in igloos
Inuit
Native Americans lived in many different place throughout the Americas. Name 3 things the different environments affected that made each tribe separate and distinctive. (HINT: basic needs of every human)
Food , clothing, and housing or shelter