European Stuff
The "first" person to discover the americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Named after Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts.
What is the Dawes Act?
The Vikings discovered the Americas first.
What is True?
The first person to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
These people made a relatively accurate 365-day calendar and developed a number system including zero.
Who are the Mayans?
The new world was named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Portugal and Spain.
Who were the early leaders in the Age of Exploration?
The Old World hadn’t seen a tomato. New World crops became popular in the Old World. Horses changed the lifestyle of the New World. Many Native American tribes were wiped out due to disease and European brutality. Old World animals expanded the food supply in the New World.
What are facts about the Columbian Exchange?
Asians found America 16000 years ago when crossing the Bering land bridge.
What is False?
Reason: Prehistoric bacteria and microorganisms found the Americas more than 3 billion years ago by spreading through the sea and air across the world.