The First Americans
This is the name of the land bridge that the early peoples crossed from Asia to the Americas.
What is Beringia?
His book about traveling to China and the Indies inspired many people & explorers.
Who is Marco Polo?
This is the cultural region that we all live in.
What is California?
What is a natural resource?
The most popular car color.
What is white?
These are the two things shared in a cultural region.
What is culture & language?
They were fur trappers who went west in New France searching for beaver pelts.
Who are coureurs de bois?
This region is mainly comprised of a tundra, or cold temperatures and no trees.
What is the Arctic?
A Spanish soldier-explorer
What is a conquistador?
A number with a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
What is a googol?
This is the country that the first Americans arrived from.
What is Siberia?
Explorers from this country claimed and conquered the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru.
What is Spain?
This is the most important crop of the Southwest region.
All the physical surroundings in a place.
What is environment?
Most of the bones in your body is located here.
To move from one place and establish a home in a new place.
What is migrate?
This was the first English colony.
What is Jamestown?
In this region, they made robes out of rabbit hides to keep warm during the winter.
What is the Great Basin?
A people's way of life, including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings, & clothing
What is culture?
This is what you call a group of dolphins.
It was because of this ability to change to match the environment that turned the first Americans into different tribes with different cultures.
Before it was called New York by the English, this is what that area was called by the Dutch.
What is New Netherland?
This is the region characterized by forests, lakes, & streams, with sturdy log-frame houses covered by elm bark. They hunter deer & other animals, gathered nuts & berries, & started farming crops.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
The swapping of plants, animals, diseases, & people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe & the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The only species of bird that can fly backwards.
What is a hummingbird?