Vocabulary
This is the way of life for a group of people.
What is a culture?
Most historians believe that the first Americans came from here.
What is Asia?
This is the official declaration of owning something, such as an area of land.
What is claim?
Europeans often built these military settlements surrounded by walls.
What are forts?
The name of the Columbian Exchange comes from this person.
This is a settlement ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
This is an object made by humans that can tell a lot about the history of a place and it's people.
What is an artifact?
Christopher Columbus claimed the land he found for this country.
What is Spain?
This is the name of the first lasting colony that the colonists build.
What is Jamestown?
Name one good item that the Native Americans received from the Europeans.
What are wheat, rice, horses, citrus fruit, chickens, pigs, cows?
This is the planting and growing of crops for food.
What is agriculture?
Thousands of years ago, this connected Asia and the Americas.
What is land?
Christopher Columbus was looking for a direct route to this place.
What is Asia?
In 1620, Pilgrims settled Plymouth in what is now Massachusetts because they wanted this.
What is religious freedom?
Name one thing that Europe received from the Americas.
What are corn, potatoes, gold, tomatoes, squash, turkey, pumpkins, pineapple, tobacco?
This is the planting and growing of crops for food.
What is agriculture?
This is how agriculture change the way that people lived.
What is that once they learned how to farm, people could stay in one place?
For this many years, explorers would come to North and South America.
What is 200 years?
By the early 1700's, this many English colonies stretched along the Atlantic coast.
What is thirteen?
What is smallpox? (germs, etc.)
These people studies artifacts and sites to learn about ancient people.
What are archeologists?
Give one way the environment affected the cultures people developed.
What is people who lived by the water learned to fish, etc.?
Columbus called the Native Americans "Indians" because of this.
Columbus thought that he had reached the Indies, so he called them Indians.
In this year, enslaved men and women were brought from Africa and forced to work.
What is 1619?
Europeans were used to governing themselves a bit due to this custom from England.
What is the House of Burgesses?