Native Americans
Human's first migrated to North and South America ________ ago
30,0000
What was the name of the explorer who discovered the Americas in the late 14th century?
Christopher Columbus
Where are potatoes originally from?
Peru
This group of colonies was known for their ship building, fishing, and whaling industries.
What was the name of the geographic feature that allowed for humans to cross over from Asia into North Africa?
Bering Land Bridge or "Beringia"
What was the name of the explorer who realized Europeans had not found a westward sea route to India, but rather a whole "New World" that would eventually be named after him?
Amerigo Vespucci
What term was used to describe the Americas before the continents were given names?
Which colonies were known as the "breadbasket" of the 13 colonies?
The Middle Colonies
What was the main reason different Native American cultures developed differently from one another?
Geography & Climate
What were the three G's that characterize the motivations for European exploration?
God, Gold, and Glory
What wiped out nearly 90% of the Native population of the Americas?
Diseases like smallpox and typhoid
Why did the Southern Colonies rely so heavily on slave labor as opposed to the others?
The Southern Colonies were agriculture based, with massive plantations that grew cash crops like tobacco and cotton and needed huge amounts of manual labor.
What was the name of the type of shelter Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands would create?
Longhouses
What made it possible for Europeans to begin exploring the world by sea?
Technology
What was the "Columbian Exchange"?
The transfer of goods, crops, culture, disease, and people between the Eastern and Western hemispheres (Europe and the Americas)
Why did Europeans look to Africa for enslaved peoples to bring to their colonies?
Native populations were wiped out, and Africa had huge, skilled populations of people with no "political" repercussions.
What was the main resource of Native Americans living in the Great Plains?
Buffalo
What new ship was highly maneuverable, seaworthy, cheap to build, and could be utilized for numerous purposes from carrying cargo to being a warship, to being a fishing boat?
Caravel
Which European explorer mapped the East Coast of New England and New York, and discovered navigable waterways that are now famous in New York state?
Henry Hudson
What does the "Middle Passage"refer to?
The inhumane and horrific journey of enslaved Africans being transported from Africa across the Atlantic to the colonies of the "New World"