Stone Age
This land bridge allowed humans to travel from Asia to the Americas.
What is the Bering Strait Land Bridge?
This is an early civilization in South America.
Who were the Inca?
This warrior group was the very first Europeans to explore America in longships.
Who are the Vikings?
These three things (the 3 Gs) is what most Europen explorers were looking for.
What are Gold, Glory, & Gold?
Christopher Columbus misidentifed these these two things because he thought he was in India.
What are Indians (Native Amricans) and Buffalos (Bison)?
This is the period time when humans only used stone tools and weapons.
What is the Stone Age?
One of "New 7 Wonders of the World” this famous and ancient pyramid is located in Mexico.
What is Chichen Itza?
This was the first European (Viking) to set foot on North America.
Who is Leif Erikson?
This was the naval rank of Christopher Columbus.
What is an admrial?
This is the capital of Spain.
What is Madrid?
This is the oldest known civilization in the Americas.
Who were the Olmec?
One of the "New Seven Wonders of the World", this ancient and famous mountain top Inca citadel is located in Peru.
What is Machu Picchu?
This is a long, narrow and flat type of Viking ship that is capable of navigating both choppy seas and shallow rivers (and was even light enough to be carried over land).
What is a Longship?
This is the Queen of Spain who supported Christopher Columbus's journey.
Who is Queen Isabella?
This was the most dangerous thing the Europeans brought to the Americas. It killed more Native Americans than anything else.
What are infectious diseases?
The are the two early civilizations in Mexico that came after the Olmec.
Who were the Aztec and the Maya?
This theory often used to describe the first people in the Americas.
What is the Clovis First Theory?
This European and his three ships was the fist explorer to open the Americas for conquest and European colonization in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Spanish Soldiers are called this.
Who are Conquistadors?
This is the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These two dangerous stone age animals were hunted to extinction by humans.
What is the saber tooth tiger and the wooly mammoth?
This is how the Incas modified their environment to grow more food on the sides of mountains.
What are terraces?
These are the names of Christopher Columbus' three ships.
What are the Nina, Pinta, & Santa Maria?
This is an Inca device of small ropes used to keep records.
What is a Quipu?
This is the first European animal in the Americas.
What is a Horse?