Vocabulary
To go from one country, region, or place to another.
What is to migrate?
Daughter of the powerful Chief Powhatan, the ruler of the Powhatan tribal nation.
Who was Pocahontas?
A period from the early 15th century and continuing into the early 17th century, during which European ships traveled around the world to search for new trading routes and partners to feed burgeoning capitalism in Europe.
What is the Age of Exploration?
The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
What is motivation?
an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck.
What is a mascot?
Pocahontas' names assigned at birth.
What are Amonute and Matoaka?
The first great supporter of naval exploration.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
Often unfair and untrue beliefs that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic.
What are stereotypes?
"Sovereignty" means a Native American nation can:
What is pass and enforce laws? (govern themselves)
Pocahontas' Christian name.
What is Rebecca?
explorer that returned to Italy after adventuring in China and brought back silks, teas, spices, and fairy tales about his travels.
Who was Marco Polo?
Reasons for using "Native American" Mascots.
What are to provide an identity that is American and not British, to be associated with ideas of being wild and free, and to honor indigenous cultures.
the process of glaciers forming, moving, and changing the Earth's surface, creating distinctive landforms
What is glaciation?
Husband of Pocahontas.
Who is John Rolfe?
a treaty that essentially drew an imaginary line down the center of the Atlantic Ocean and part of South America.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
A linear migration route, entirely at sea level, from northeast Asia into the Americas characterized by Kelp forests and other marine resources.
What is the Kelp Highway?
Institutions whose goal was to eliminate native American culture.
What is an Indian Boarding School?
The calmest period in Jamestown-Powhatan relations ushered by the marriage between Pocahontas and her husband.
What is the "peace of Pocahontas?
First European to sail to India.
Who was Vasco Da Gama?
A logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo.
What is a trade route?