Columbus who?
This was the year that Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to explore new lands.
When is 1492?
This form of travel is what natives are believed to have used to originally arrive in the Americas.
What is walking?
This portable house was useful to nomadic tribes.
What is a tepee? (tipi)
This ocean was crossed by all European explorers in route to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What was meant when the boy in the story explains "we took their language into our mouths, forgetting our own."
What is that part of the natives' culture was lost forever?
Where Christopher Columbus landed in October 1492.
What is The Bahamas?
This is what we call tribes that stay in the same area.
What are sedentary?
This crop was among the easiest to grow as it takes less rain.
What is corn?
This was the most powerful nation in the world during the "Age of Discovery."
What is the United Kingdom? (UK; Great Britain; England)
Many countries in Central America and South America speak this language as their primary language.
What is Spanish?
This is where Christopher Columbus was really headed on his journey in 1492.
What are the West Indies?
This is the term for tribes that move to follow their food source.
What is nomadic?
This was a more permanent house of the Eastern Woodland native people.
What is a Longhouse?
It's what explorers were hoping to gain by making these voyages.
What is gold, spices, fame & glory etc.?
It's what colonization means.
What is creating settlements in other lands that are ruled by the primary country?
Name at least 2 of the items that Columbus collected during his expeditions.
What were gold, spices and slaves?
Where scientists theorize where Indigenous peoples walked from over 10,000 years ago.
What is Asia?
What is ALL of it? (100%)
This is what the U.S. has renamed what used to be called the "Columbus Day" holiday.
What is Indigenous Peoples Day? (i.e. Native American Heritage Day)
These three superpower countries in the late 1400's to the early 1600's were the main explorers of the Americas.
What are the UK, Spain and France?
She wrote "Encounter" -- the story of the native boy who dreamed of 3 winged birds with sharp teeth -- which were 3 ships in real life.
Who is Jane Yolen?
What are Virginia and nearby colonies?
The tribes in this area of North America were credited with building 2 and 3 story structures called Pueblos out of mud and clay.
What is the Southwest?
This Queen sent the first pirate ships (called Sea Dogs) to go raid the Spanish ships of their gold and other valuables.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
What is attack the ships of the British navy? (quite unsuccessfully, by the way)