Vocabulary
Native Americans
Explorers
Exploration
Final Jepordy
100
This is a thick sheet of ice.
What is a Glacier?
100
The people who crossed the land bridge into Alaska between 38,000 and 10,0000 BC were called this.
Who are the Paleo-Indians?
100
He wanted to found a new route to Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This was the exchange of plants, animals, and goods between the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
These people moved around from place to place in search of food.
who are the Hunter-gatherers?
200
This is the movement of people from place to place.
What is Migration?
200
This is the region that includes present-day Mexico and parts of Central America.
What is Mesoamerica?
200
This King and Queen of Spain funded the voyages of Columbus.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
200
A frozen land bridge that connected Asia with present day Alaska.
What was the Bering Land Bridge?
200
These are the Spanish military bases.
What are presidios?
300
These people were Spanish warriors who conquered much of the Americas.
Who are the Conquistadors?
300
Name a factor that lead to the decrease in the Native American Population.
What is disease?
300
He left Cuba and sailed and conquered present-day Mexico.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
300
This was the imaginary boundary that divided the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
300
This Native American group were fierce warriors with superior military ability.
Who are the Aztecs?
400
This is a large estate farmed by many workers
What is a Plantation?
400
This group built the first pyramids in America.
Who are the Olmecs?
400
He discovered the present-day coast of Florida in search for the fountain of youth.
Who is Ponce DeLeon?
400
This was the system that gave Spanish settlers the right to tax local Native Americans and force them to work.
What is encomienda?
400
This Portuguese navigator's crew was the first to circumnavigate the earth. Name the explorer AND define circumnavigate!!
Who is Ferdinand Magellan and What is sail around the earth?
500
Scientists believe that the first people in North America arrived during this period in history.
What is the Ice Age?
500
This group began as a small tribe that settled along the Andes mountains.
Who are the Inca?
500
In 1501, this explorer led a Spanish fleet to the coast of present-day South America.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
500
Name the ruler of the Aztec empire and his capital city. ** Answer with 2 questions!!!
Who is Moctezuma and What is Tenochtitlan?
500
The Indian woman who helped Cortes win allies.
Who is Malintzin?
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