Columbus who?
This was the year that Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to explore new lands.
When is 1492?
This tribe helped saved many English lives in 1607 at the Jamestown settlement.
Who were the Powhatans?
It's the approximate range of years that the AGE of DISCOVERY took place.
When was the LATE 1400's to the EARLY 1600's?
This ocean was crossed by all European explorers in route to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What was meant when the native boy in Jane Yolen's story explains "we took their language into our mouths, forgetting our own."
What is that part of the natives' culture was lost forever? (Forced to learn to speak Spanish)
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 that grew VERY well in Virginia/North Carolina soil, was able to be sold for the highest return in value.
What is tobacco?
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 is India?
Not packing enough food and supplies, illnesses, and not arriving during the Spring.
What are reasons that early English settlements failed?
This was a more permanent house of the Eastern Woodland native people.
What is a Longhouse?
It's the geographical mistake Columbus made causing him to land where he did.
What is not knowing that North & South America were on the map?
It's why we speak English in the United States.
What is that the UK defeated Spain when attacked at sea in 1588? (First UK ships turned back the Spanish armada, then the Spanish ships got caught in a storm)
It's the reason Columbus and other early explorers went on expeditions in the world.
What was to find gold (gain wealth), resources (spices, silk) and claim land in the name of their monarchs?
A Powhatan tribe member, she married an English settler, which paved the way for her to be a Disney superstar.
Who was Pocohantas?
This Queen sent the first pirate ships (called Sea Dogs) to go raid the Spanish ships of their gold and other valuables.
Who was Elizabeth I?
The person that "America" was named for.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
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)