American History
These were the first people in North and South America.
Who were the Native Americans?
These were the military expeditions to Jerusalem.
What were the Crusades?
This is the continent Ms. Cunha lives on.
What is South America?
Cortes conquered this Native American empire.
Native Americans were shocked to see these animals when Cortes and other conquistadors arrived in the Americas.
What are horses?
This Spanish conquistador was searching for the Fountain of Youth.
Wu Zeiten was the only female emperor of this country.
What is China?
The country that lies to the south of the United States.
What is Mexico?
This was the Aztec leader when Cortes first arrived in Mexico.
Who was Moctezuma?
These two continents are joined together physically, so their names are also sometimes joined.
This Spanish conquistador was the first European to see the Mississippi River.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
These were boats the Vikings used.
What is the longship?
Polar bears walk on this ocean.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This is the name of the city that was the center of the Aztec Empire.
What was Tenochtitlan?
This land bridge that connected Asia and Europe allowed the first peoples to reach the Americas.
What was Beringia?
This colony mysteriously disappeared.
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
This road went from China to Europe and was not made of the material that names it.
What is the Silk Road?
You live north of this important line of latitude.
What is the equator?
This man was an enemy of Cortes. He was also the governor of Cuba.
Who was Velazquez?
This era of history came after Ancient Times and before Modern Times.
What is the Middle Ages?
This person is credited with bringing potatoes and tobacco to England.
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
This is the form of government in the Middle Ages, in which a king is at top, followed by lords and knights, and serfs or peasants at the bottom.
What is feudalism?
These map lines are also called meridians.
What are lines of longitude?
This was the century that Cortes conquered Mexico.
This European is credited with being the first to reach North America.
Who was Leif the Lucky?