Geography
Periods of extreme cold during which huge glaciers the covered much of the Earth
What is an Ice Age?
What are civilizations?
This invention led to the spread of information and ideas about the world.
This was the first successful English colony in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
This became the chant of revolution, and the reason people opposed British rule.
A movement of a large number of people to a new area
What is a migration?
One of two civilizations that were eventually destroyed by European explorers.
Who are the Aztec or the Inca?
This device allowed sailors to determine their direction when they were far from land.
What is the compass or the astrolabe?
This colony became known eventually as New York.
What is "New Amsterdam"?
This city became known as the hotspot of revolution.
What is Boston?
A strip of land exposed during lower sea levels that ran from Siberia to Alaska.
What is Beringea?
This group of people lived in our area, and formed system of government that linked different groups.
Who are the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee?
What is Asia?
This region of colonies was strong in trade, manufacturing, and fishing.
What is the New England colonies?
This is where the 'Shot Heard Round the World" came from.
What is Lexington or Concord?
The study of ancient people
What is archaeology?
This animal, introduced by the Spanish, became a technological advancement to people of the Great Plains.
What is the horse?
Columbus had a different plan. He decided to sail in this direction.
What is 'West'?
This region of colonies was known for its diversity of immigrants to the New World.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Those who chose to stay with the British were called this.
These prehistoric mammals died out probably from overhunting by early Americans
What are wooly mammoths?
This group of indigenous people lived here, in what is now Ithaca and the surrounding area.
Who are the Cayuga Indians?
The year that Columbus and First Americans made contact with each other and changed the world.
What is 1492?
This region found it's first profits from tobacco, and relied heavily on agriculture.
What are the Southern Colonies?
Thomas Jefferson was selected to draft this famous document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?