Indigenous Peoples
This word describes the people who are native to a particular place.
What is Indigenous?
This explorer sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 while searching for a route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This period brought a renewed interest in art, science, learning, and Ancient Greek and Roman ideas.
What is the Renaissance?
This ocean was used by European explorers to reach the Americas from Europe
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The Pilgrims traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on this famous ship.
What is the Mayflower?
This Indigenous woman helped create a connection between the Powhatan people and English colonists at Jamestown.
Who is Pocahontas?
Some Europeans moved to new places because they wanted to practice this freely.
What is religion?
This invention helped books and new ideas spread quickly throughout Europe.
What is the printing press?
This Spanish explorer is famous for exploring the southeastern United States and the Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
This agreement established rules for self-government among the Plymouth colonists.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This land bridge connected Asia and North America during the Ice Age.
What is the Bering Strait Land Bridge?
This explorer helped Europeans realize that the Americas were a separate continent.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This navigation tool helped sailors determine their position by using the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
This continent is where many European explorers were trying to reach a new route to.
Asia
He was the governor of Plymouth Colony and wrote about the Pilgrims' experiences.
Who is William Bradford?
This war was fought between New England colonists and many Indigenous peoples led by Metacomet, also known as King Philip.
What is King Philip's War?
This European country established Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is England?
This German monk challenged the Catholic Church and helped begin the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This European country established the 13 Colonies along the Atlantic coast.
What is England?
This is an agreement between two groups to work together.
What is an alliance?
This alliance was formed by five Indigenous nations in the northeastern region of North America to promote peace and cooperation.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This exchange of plants, animals, people, diseases, and goods began after Europeans reached the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This movement began when people challenged the practices and authority of the Catholic Church
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This continent is often referred to as the "New World"
North America
This Indigenous leader helped Jamestown colonists survive by trading food with them.
Powhatan