The Plains Indians worshiped these animals because they provided them with just about everything they need to survive.
What are buffalo?
100
Columbus' first trip to the Americas was designed to reach this trade rich Asian country.
What is India?
100
These simple to disassemble shelters were used by the Plains Indians because they needed to always be on the move following their food source, buffalo.
What is a tepee?
100
These lines run north to south, but measure east and west from the Prime Meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
100
These Mesoamerican people predated the Mayan empire.
What were the Olmecs?
200
Many Mesoamerican civilizations depended on agriculture, therefore this star was worshiped as a god.
What is the sun?
200
These two monarchs funded Columbus' voyage to reach the east by sailing west.
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain?
200
These huts were created in the Southwest by plastering mud over wood frames and allowing it to bake in the hot sun.
What are Hogans?
200
This is the waist belt of the earth.
What is the Equator?
200
Archeologists examine these pieces of evidence left behind by earlier people.
What are artifacts?
300
The Iroquois believed that these three crops were a gift from their gods.
What are corn, beans and squash (the three sisters)?
300
These were the first people of the Americas to make contact with Columbus and his crew.
Who were the Tainos people?
300
These large houses were made out of a wood frame which was covered in bark. They often housed extended families.
What were long houses?
300
These are the areas that are at 90 degrees latitude.
What are the North and South Poles?
300
This was the name given to the land bridge that connected Asia to North America.
What is Beringia?
400
The Inca people built this temple high up in the mountains to serve as a refuge for religious leaders.
What is Machu Picchu?
400
The transferring of language, goods, ideas and diseases back and forth from the New and Old World is known as this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
These abodes made from compact snow and ice were the winter dwellings of the Eskimo and Inuit people of the far north.
What were igloos?
400
This longitude line is 180 degrees away from the Prime Meridian.
What is the International Dateline?
400
These man-made structures were used by the Incas as a way to farm high up in the Andes Mountains of Peru.
What were terraces?
500
During human sacrifice, the Aztec priests would often remove this human organ and offer it to the gods.
What is the heart?
500
These were the three ships Columbus used on his first voyage to the Americas.
What were the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria? Columbus himself captained the Santa Maria.
500
Ditches constructed by many tribes in the Southwest helped them to do this, which means transferring water from rivers and lakes to crops in dry land.
What is irrigation?
500
The Prime Meridian passes through this city in England.
What is Greenwich, England?
500
The land bridge that Archeologists believe was used by the earliest Americans is now under this narrow body of water.