First Americans
During the Ice Age, scientists think people reached the Americas by traveling across this.
What is a land bridge?
American Indian cultural regions formed because groups adapted to these where they settled.
What are their environments?
This was a major motivation for European exploration.
What is profit?
Spanish conquistadors came to the Americas hoping to do this for Spain.
What is conquer a large empire?
The French and Dutch settlements both depended heavily on this economic activity.
What is the fur trade?
The main reason the first Americans migrated from Asia to the Americas.
What is searching for food?
One thing that characterizes an American Indian cultural region is that people share this.
What is a similar language?
Marco Polo encouraged European exploration by doing this.
What is writing a book about his travels in Asia?
The main goal of Spanish missionaries was to do this.
What is teach their religion to American Indians?
The French relationship with many American Indians was best described this way.
What are business partners?
Historians learn how American Indians lived long ago by studying these objects left behind.
What are artifacts?
Most American Indians viewed the environment as part of this larger whole.
What is a community of living things?
The first European explorers hoped to find this route.
What is a water route to Asia?
These two groups settled in the Spanish borderlands.
Who are soldiers and missionaries?
New Amsterdam differed from many other European colonies because it included this.
What is a diverse population?
This activity enabled most American Indians to settle in permanent villages.
What is farming?
American Indians' survival depended heavily on their ability to use these.
What are natural resources?
One major effect of Columbus's voyages was the transfer of these between Europe and the Americas.
What are foods?
In North America, these workers increasingly took the place of enslaved American Indian workers.
Who are enslaved Africans?
After the English took New Netherland in 1664, it received this new name.
What is New York?
For most American Indian groups, this factor was most important in determining their way of life.
What are food sources?
This environmental factor strongly influenced the kinds of homes created by American Indian groups.
What is climate?
The Columbian Exchange caused many American Indian groups to die from these.
What are diseases?
This term describes the Spanish military explorers whose goals included conquest.
Who are conquistadors?
The London Company sent colonists to Virginia primarily to do this.
What is start a moneymaking colony?