Mesoamerica
100: What were the two ways in which people first came to the continent?
What is walking and sailing?
100: Who was the first European to come to the americas?
Answer: Who was Leif Erikson?
100: What is one commodity Native American tribes never traded?
Answer: What is land?
100: In what year did Christopher Columbus first arrive in the Americas?
Answer: What is 1492?
100: Who was the first president of the United States?
Answer: Who was George Washington?
Answer: What is corn, gourds, pumpkins, or peppers?
200: Why did Leif Erikson's father, Erik the Red, leave Iceland?
Answer: What is murder?
200: What did most Native American tribes believe happened after you died?
Answer: What is become a spirit?
200: What was Columbus originally searching for when he set sail across the Atlantic?
Answer: What is a new trade route to Asia?
200: What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims sailed to America on?
Answer: What is the Mayflower?
300: Which Mesoamerican civilization is known for its capital city of Tenochtitlan?
Answer: What is the Aztec civilization?
300: What is the name of the explorer that America is named after?
Answer: Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300: What was the largest factor in bringing tribes into contact with one another?
Answer: What is trade?
300: What did Columbus think of the native people he and his crew first encountered?
Answer: What is good slaves?
300: How many original British colonies existed in America?
Answer: What is 13?
400: What is the name of the ancient civilization known for its pyramids and calendar systems?
What is the Maya civilization?
400: What is the name of the map projection displayed around the classroom?
Answer: What is the Mercator projection?
400: What was the largest factor in shaping how native American societies developed?
Answer: What is their environment?
400: What were the names of the three ships Columbus sailed on his first voyage?
Answer: What are the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
400: Where was the first Constitutional Convention held?
Answer: Philadelphia
500: What was the significance of the Olmec civilization in Mesoamerican history?
What is they were the first empire?
500: Who was the Spanish conquistador that conquered the Aztecs?
Answer: Hernán Cortés
500: How did the arrival of Europeans affect Native American populations?
Answer: What is disease and displacement?
500: What is the term used for the exchange and global transfer of living things?
Answer: What is the Columbian Exchange?
500: Who was the first president to live in the White House?
Answer: John Adams