Early American Peoples
This is the study of human history with ancient artifacts.
Archaeology
What is the term for someone who moves from place to place in search of food.
Nomads
This explorer and map maker is credited with naming America.
Amerigo Vespucci
Europeans wanted this food changing commodity from the East Indies.
This explorer was the first European to sail to the southern tip of Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
This was the first crop that Native Americans learned to widely harvest
Maize
This early American civilization was found in present day Mexico and sacrificed millions.
Aztecs
This explorer was a Prince of Portugal and inspired many other explorers.
Henry the Navigator
This is a body of land claimed by a foreign power that uses it to gain wealth and power.
Colony
This is the term for sailing across the globe.
Circumnavigate.
This is the term for people moving to another area or location.
Migration
This civilization was located in Central America and built many pyramid like temples.
Mayans
This explorer was the first explorer to sail across the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
This cash crop helped save the colony of Jamestown from ruin.
Tobacco
This explorer was the first European to sail to India.
Vasco da Gama
The traditions, customs, and ways of a people.
Culture
This civilization was found in present day South America and made structures such as Machu Picchu
Incans
This explorer conquered the Aztecs.
Hernan Cortes
This was the first British colony in the Americas.
Jamestown
This explorer sailed down the St. Lawrence River for the French.
Jacques Cartier
This is the name of the land bridge that allowed early Native Americans to come into America.
Beringia
This is the term for having more than one God, which many early civilizations had.
Polytheism
This explorer searched for the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
Juan Ponce de Leon
Puritans
Incans