Native Americans
Geography
Columbian Exchange
Exploration
Potpourri
100

Corn, Beans, and squash.

What are The Three Sisters?

100
This hot, dry climate is home to states like Arizona and New Mexico.

What is Southwest?

100

When Columbus reached the Americas, he thought he had landed in this location. 

What is Asia/India?

100
This explorer helped link the eastern and western hemispheres through his "discovery" of the New World. 

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

This was a movement of ideas, people, goods and disease between the Western and Eastern hemispheres. 

What is the Columbian Exchange?

200

This Native American region is considered the "richest" in resources due to its extensive trade network and abundance of salmon. 

What is the Northwest?

200

Located in the middle of the country, this vast, flat area is prone to tornadoes.

What are the Great Plains?
200

In this country's exploration, they specialized in fur trading and settled in Canada, the Great Lakes and along the Mississippi River. 

What is France?

200

These Spanish explorers wanted to spread their faith, find gold, and conquer the Native Americans.

Who were the Conquistadors?

200

These multi-level cities made of mud, clay, and brick were lived in by Southwest Native American tribes. 

What are pueblos?

300

This tribe, located in the Far North/Arctic Tundra, lived in igloos and hunted for whales and seals via kayaks. 

What is the Inuit tribe?

300

Of the geographical features that we have discussed, this has the highest elevation in the U.S.

What are the Rocky Mountains?

300
This super crop was brought from the Americas and helped end famine and hunger for the Europeans. 

What is the potato?

300

These were the 3 major reasons why Europeans started to explore new lands. 

What is God, Glory, and Gold (Three G's)?

300

This type of Native American housing showed great adaptation to the environment due to its quick ability to be taken down and put back up.

What is a tipi?
400
This mammal served as a vital source of food and influenced the Nomadic way of life for Great Plains tribes. 
What is the buffalo?
400

This temperate climate region, containing four seasons, can be found in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. 

What is the Humid Continental region?

400

In the 15th through 17th centuries, this is the destruction of the Native American population via disease and sickness.

What is The Great Dying?

400

This man set up a school for exploration in the 1400s. 

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

400

This crop negatively impacted the Americas by increasing slave trade production following the Columbian Exchange. 

What is sugar cane?

500

This nomadic Native American tribe lived in the Great Plains and utilized buffalo as their primary source of food. 

What is the Sioux tribe?

500

This major body of fresh, flowing water borders 10 of our states, including those in "MIMAL."

What is the Mississippi River?
500

This trade item, brought from the Old World, completely changed the way the Native Americans traveled, battled, and hunted. 

What is the horse?

500
This Norse explorer was thought to be the first European to set foot in the Americas during his exploration. 

Who is Leif Erikson?

500

This region is known to be the first present-day United States location discovered by the European explorers.

What are the Coastal Plains?
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