Vocabulary
The process of one country claiming land and creating settlements in another area
Colonization
the verbal sharing and retelling of stories and information; a main method of preserving past knowledge before people developed systems of writing
Oral Tradition
The Three Sisters crops included which plants?
Corn, beans, squash
New type of ship that emerged during the Age of Exploration; faster and more maneuverable than previous ships
Caravel
Sea route through North America to the Pacific Ocean
Northwest Passage
Related to the time before explorer Christopher Columbus arrived and the region became known as the Americas
Pre-Columbian
Firsthand accounts, or original materials of history
Primary Source
Indigenous people of the Great Plans relied upon which animal?
American Bison
What did the Europeans introduce to the Indigenous people which caused them to die
Diseases
Animal fur traded between the French and Algonquin
Beaver and/or Mink
Someone who studies the past by examining artifacts
Archaeologist
Early humans entered North America through what modern US state?
Alaska
A natural resource found in the Southwest region of America
Clay
The transfer of goods, agricultural products, diseases, animals, plant life, and people across the Atlantic Ocean starting in 1492
Columbian Exchange
Netherlands trading company founded in 1621
Dutch West India Company
The original or native inhabitants of a place
Indigenous
Things available in an environment that people use to help them live
Resources
A natural resource found n the Eastern Woodlands region of America
Timber
Italian explorer who sailed west on behalf of Spain across the Atlantic Ocean in attempts to reach Asia; landed in the Caribbean in 1492 and established a colony for Spain
Christopher Columbus
A legislative assembly created by the Virginia Company and made up of elected representatives
House of Burgesses
Economic center of the Dutch colony in America
New Amsterdam
How long ago did people migrate to the region that would become known as North America?
18,000 years ago
A mountain range in eastern North America that extends from Alabama into Canada
Appalachian Mountains
Religion Spanish missionaries wanted Indigenous people to convert to.
Christianity
Religion the French wanted Indigenous people to convert to.
Catholicism