Early Inhabitants
What was the name of the land bridge that connected Asia to North America?
What is Beringia?
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
What does "Pre-Columbian" mean?
What is before the arrival of Columbus/Europeans?
What invention helped spread exploration ideas quickly?
What is the Printing Press?
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What is the transfer of goods, animals, plants, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds?
What type of homes did Great Plains tribes use?
What are teepees?
What major event caused ocean levels to drop, exposing the land bridge?
What is the Ice Age?
Which civilization built large cities and had a complex calendar system?
Who are the Maya?
What tool used the stars to help sailors navigate?
What is the astrolabe?
What did Europeans gain from the Columbian Exchange?
What are crops like corn and potatoes?
What crops were known as the “Three Sisters”?
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Why did early people migrate across the land bridge?
What is to find food and follow animals?
Which civilization built terraces in the Andes Mountains?
Who are the Inca?
What fast ship helped European explorers travel long distances?
What is the caravel?
What was a negative impact of the Columbian Exchange on Native Americans?
What are diseases like smallpox?
Which tribes formed the Iroquois Confederacy?
What are the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca?
What direction did people migrate across Beringia...
into or out of North America?
What is into North America?
What was the capital city of the Aztec Empire, and where was it built?
What is Tenochtitlán, built on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco?
Which country sent explorers to find gold and spread Christianity?
What is Spain?
Which country explored and traded furs in the New World?
What is France?
Who chose the male leaders in the Iroquois village council?
Who are the women?
Explain how the Ice Age exposed Beringia.
During the Ice Age, much of Earth's water was frozen in glaciers, causing sea levels to drop. This exposed a land bridge, called Beringia, between Asia and North America.
Name all three major Pre-Columbian civilizations and one way each adapted to their environment.
Maya—slash and burn farming; Inca—terrace farming; Aztec— floating gardens
Name two tools (besides the printing press) that made exploration easier and what each did.
Compass—shows direction; Astrolabe—used stars to navigate
Name the country and river where the French settled, and what they traded.
What is France, the St. Lawrence River, and furs?
Fill in the PEGS chart: Give one example of each (Political, Economic, Geographic, Social).
P—village council, E—trade/farming, G—mountains/forests, S—clans/family roles