Native American Vocabulary
To move from one place to another
What is migrate?
The name of the land bridge the first people crossed to get into the Americas
What is Beringia?
The continents of Europe, Asia, & Africa
What is the Old World?
The man who influenced the start of the Age of Exploration by publishing his journals of his travels to Asia
Who is Marco Polo?
This Spanish explorer is best known for rediscovering America and influencing other explorers to venture to the Americas
Who is Christopher Columbus?
all of the physical surroundings in a place
What is environment?
The time period that allowed the first people to travel into the Americas
What is the Ice Age?
an influence that draws someone to a new location
What is a pull factor?
What are the main three motivations of exploration?
What are gold, glory, and gold?
This Spanish explorer is best known for conquering the Aztec empire
Who is Hernan Cortes?
useful material found in nature, including water, vegetation, animals, and minerals
What is natural resources?
Native Americans had to do this in order to survive in their new environments
What is adapt?
an influence that drives someone away from a location
What is a push factor?
Which religion did those traveling to the Americans want to convert Native Americans to?
What is Christianity?
This French explorer was credited with discovering and claiming the land now known as Canada
Who is Jacques Cartier?
a people’s identity and way of life, including customs, food, dwellings, family structure
What is culture?
How Natives were grouped throughout the North American continent because they shared similar environments and cultures
What is a cultural region?
the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What product did French explorers go to the Americas looking for?
What are furs?
This Spanish explorer is credited as the first European known to have visited present day United States
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
an area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
What is a cultural region?
Identify six cultural regions
Arctic, Eastern Woodlands, Southeast, Great Plains, Plateau, Great Basin, Northwest Coast, Southwest, California
the process of integrating the economy globally, marked especially by free trade, the free flow of money, and the use of cheaper foreign labor
What is globalization?
List the three main effects of colonization.
1. Slavery
2. Globalization
3. Colonization
This English explorer discovered various North American water routes, which led other Europeans to journey to North America where colonization and trading would take place
Hint: A strait, a bay, and a river in New York are all named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?