Native Civilizations
The Inuit people lived in cold, harsh environments in this modern territory.
What is Canada/Alaska?
The first people came to America by walking from this cold, snowy continent.
What is Asia (or Siberia)?
This colony was founded by the English in modern day Virginia with the intention of finding gold.
What is Jamestown?
These three major European powers were the dominant forces in American colonization.
What are England, Spain, and France?
This individual is credited to being the first person to connect the old and new world.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This term is used to describe the half of the world that Europeans did not know of before the Age of Exploration.
What is the New World?
This civilization was prominent in the Southwestern United States in modern day New Mexico and Arizona.
What is the Navajo tribe?
What is Africa?
The puritans/pilgrims sailed to America in this famous boat.
What is the Mayflower?
This major European power was the first country to explore the American continents.
What is Spain?
This explorer quietly landed in North America roughly 500 years before another very famous colonizer.
Who is Lief Erikson?
This term is used to describe the half of the world that Europeans DID know of before the Age of Exploration.
What is the Old World?
This great Mayan invention was used to track the stars and planets extremely accurately.
What is the Mayan calendar?
The land bridge that was created during the last Ice Age.
What is the Bering Land Strait? (Or Beringia)
Religious persecution pushed many people from this country into the Northeastern region of the United States such as Massachusetts.
What is England?
This explorer is credited with being the first person to ever sail around the entire globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
These poor Europeans signed labor contracts in order to get to America. They were not slaves but they were also not free.
What is an indentured servant?
This prominent tribe was dominant in the Great Plains of modern day United States such as North and South Dakota.
What is the Sioux tribe?
Early Americans learned to grow these three main crops together.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
This group of islands is where Columbus first landed in 1492.
What is the West Indies?
Most early European explorers were searching for trade routes to this continent.
What is Asia?
This colonizer is most famous for conquering the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
This is the Spanish word for a colonizer.
What is a Conquistador?
This large group of people were originally from Southeastern territory of North America but were eventually forced West into modern day Oklahoma.
What is the Cherokee tribe?
The time frame that most scientists believe early humans migrated to the Americas.
What is 20,000 - 40,000 BCE?
This country was known for hiring people from other countries to explore on their behalf.
This small country did not colonize America as much as England, France, or Spain, but still had significant impact on the Age of Exploration.
What is Portugal?
America was named after this explorer for his significant exploration of both of the American continents.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
These continents are considered part of the "Old World"
What is Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia?