Native American Tribes
Major Concepts
Early Explorers
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
Who were the first Americans?
What is Paleo Indians.
100
The holy book of Islam
What is the Qur'an.
100
First European explorer to sail across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Vasco Da Gama.
100
A first hand account of an event.
What is a primary source.
100
A system of government run by elected officials.
What is republic
200
This great warrior tribe of South America conquered much of its competition and created a vast and wealthy empire.
What is the Aztec?
200
This document is the first in history to give common people basic rights.
What is the Magna Carta.
200
This explorer who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias.
200
A second hand account of a situation.
What is a secondary source.
200
A system of virtual slavery for American Indian laborers.
What is encomienda
300
One of the latest, but largest and most powerful native groups in south America, this group practiced ritual sacrifice to the gods.
What is the Inca.
300
A series religious wars over the control over the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades.
300
The explorer who "discovered" Hispaniola.
Who is Christopher Columbus.
300
a period of renewed learning and creativity in Europe followed
What is Renaissance
300
A Spanish-American day laborer or unskilled farm worker.
What is peon
400
These tribal people constructed large burial grounds out of heaps of dirt.
What is mound builders.
400
The mass displacement of Africans from their native lands.
What is the African Diaspora.
400
The conqueror of the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes.
400
The ongoing battle to recapture Spanish lands from Muslim forces.
What is Reconquista
400
A ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign.
What is viceroy
500
This native tribe had no system of money, no formal government, and had a culture based on hospitality that eventually did them in.
Who are the Taino.
500
The shift from nomadic lifestyles to permanent farming communities where populations flourished.
What is the Agricultural Revolution.
500
The individual who stood up against the atrocities against the natives.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas
500
Ships that were well suited for seafaring explorations.
What is caravels
M
e
n
u