Terms
Pre-Historic Indian Cultures
Instruments of Explorers
Early Explorers
Southeast Exploration
100
A preliminary conclusion that the historian must gather evidence to support.
What is the hypothesis?
100
Theory explaining the early arrival of Ancient Americans during the Ice Age.
What is the Land-Bridge Theory?
100
Special ship for long voyages with the Lateen Sail.
What was the Caravel?
100
Number of voyages Columbus made to the New World.
What was 4?
100
Spanish explorer discovered this important current around Florida.
What is Gulf Stream?
200
Type of source based upon personal interviews, speeches, govt. documents or diaries.
What are primary sources?
200
Most primitive of Pre-Historic Indians as hunter-gatherers.
What were the Paleo-Indians?
200
Navigation instrument for locating places using latitude.
What was the astrolabe?
200
Treaty between Spain and Portugal establishing a line of demarcation regarding exploration.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
Spanish conquistador that led an expedition through the southeast including Georgia.
Who was De Soto?
300
A biography is an example of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
300
They lived in warmer climate hunting large and small game animals. Later adopted pottery making.
What were the Archaic Indians?
300
Helped mariners find direction with the True North.
What was the compass?
300
He explored for England looking for the NW Passage.
Who was John Cabot?
300
Jean Ribault's attempted colonization on the St. Johns River.
Where was Ft. Caroline?
400
Time-line is an example of this concept for ordered events.
What is chronology?
400
The Woodland Indians built these mounds for ceremonial or religious reasons.
What were effigy mounds?
400
Used for surveying lands from a distance.
What was the crosshatch?
400
First explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
Who was Magellan?
400
Pedro Menendez successfully started this Spanish colony in N. Florida.
Where was St. Augustine?
500
A natural object.
What are ecofacts?
500
They lived along rivers with enclosed palisades and built flat-topped pyramids from earth.
Who were the Mississippians?
500
Give the explorers military superiority over natives in battle.
What were firearms?
500
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This explorer gave America its name.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
500
Killed about 90% of the Native-Americans in the wake of De Soto's march through the SE.
What were epidemics?