Indigenous Settlement Patterns
This river was very important for the Mississippian people and their way of life.
What is the Mississippi River?
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas, often involving enslaved people.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This explorer sailed in 1492 and is credited with "discovering" the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This type of shelter, often used by Native Americans in the Great Plains, was easily movable and made from buffalo hides.
What is a tipi?
This food, originally from the Americas, became very popular in Europe after Columbus’s voyages.
What is the potato?
This agreement divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This Indigenous group is famous for their adobe homes and lived in the Southwest region of the United States.
Who are the Pueblo people?
This ancient route allowed for trade of silk and spices between Europe and Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
This Spanish explorer is famous for conquering the Aztecs in Mexico.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This farming method helped many Indigenous people grow crops by clearing land.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
This term describes the exchange of goods and ideas between the Old World and the New World after Columbus.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This English explorer was the first to map the coast of North America and sought a Northwest Passage.
Who is John Cabot?
These nomadic Native Americans followed bison across the Great Plains.
Who are the Plains Indians?
The fur trade in North America was mainly conducted with this European country known for its beaver hats.
What is France?
This settlement, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?