Italian born explorer who sailed for Spain and was the first European to sail to the New World and create permanent contact.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is the name of the advanced writing system used by the Maya people.
What are heiroglyphics?
These homes, made of ice, were where the Inuit people lived.
What are the igloos?
These were the homes of the Pueblo people.
What are the Adobe Pueblos?
This line (which goes left to right) in the middle of the earth splits the earth into a Northern and Western hemisphere.
What is the equator?
From the Christopher Columbus journal, this is what the Spanish claimed in the name of the king and queen.
What is the land?
This symbol was used to represent zero in the Maya number system.
What is a shell?
This is the type of clothing that the Inuit people had to wear because of the climate.
What is heavy, thick animal fur?
This is the type of climate that the Pueblo people lived in.
What is warm, hot?
This line (which goes up and down) in the middle of the earth splits the earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
From the Christopher Columbus journal, this is the compensation that the Spanish gave the Natives for the land?
What is nothing?
This person in Maya culture was viewed highly because they were seen as an intermediary, or middle-man, between the people and the gods.
Who are the kings or priests?
The Inuit people had to rely on hunting for food because they were unable to do this activity because of the cold tundra.
What is farming?
Unlike the Inuit people, the Pueblo were able to use the soil to do this type of activity to make food.
What is farming?
This is the name of the first number in a set of coordinates. These lines go lateral, meaning from left to right. They measure North and South.
What is latitude?
He was the first captain to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
In the Maya number system, if I added 2 dots plus 2 bars, I would get this answer.
What is 12?
This was the mode of transportation used by the Inuit on land and ice.
What are dogsleds or qamutik?
This was the location of the Pueblo People.
What is the Southwest of North America? Also accepted Arizona, New Mexico.
This is the name of the second number in a set of coordinates. These lines go vertical or up and down. They measure East and West.
What is longitude?
This Portugese ruler financed and organized exploration.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This is the name of the large cities that the Maya built in the rainforest.
What are city-states?
This single-passenger boat was used by the Inuit in the water to travel and hunt.
What are kayaks?
The Pueblo were given this name because of their skill making with woven plant materials.
What is Basketmakers?
The Tropic of Cancer is located at this coordinate.
What is 23.5 S?