Native American Regions
This region included groups such as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Natchez, and Seminole.
Southeast
These large animals were especially important to many Native American groups of the Great Plains.
Buffalo
These people were the first Europeans to reach North America.
Vikings
Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, turkeys, and cocoa were goods that came from this part of the world.
New World
The three major motivations for European exploration were often called the 3 Gs: God, Gold, and this.
Glory
This Native American group built tall, multi-story buildings out of adobe in the Southwest.
Pueblo
The Algonquian people lived in these round homes.
Wigwams
This French explorer claimed Canada for France.
Jacques Cartier
Cows, pigs, horses, wheat, and sugarcane were goods brought from this part of the world.
Old World
Europeans wanted to spread this religion during their exploration of the Americas.
Christianity
Many Native American groups in this region hunted buffalo and lived in tipis.
Great Plains
The Great Plains groups often lived in these portable homes because they moved from place to place.
Tipis
This Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico explored Florida.
Juan Ponce de Leon
This was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, people, ideas, and diseases between the Old World and New World.
Columbian Exchange
This explorer's first name was Amerigo, and North and South America were named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci
The Iroquois lived in these large wooden homes that could house several families.
Longhouses
This set of rules helped organize the Iroquois Confederacy and explained how its leaders and nations should work together.
Great Law of Peace
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
Hernan Cortes
Europeans brought these illnesses, including smallpox, which caused the deaths of millions of Native Americans.
Diseases
This economic theory said that a country's power depended on how much gold, silver, and resources it controlled.
Mercantilism
This Native American region included both the Algonquian and Iroquois peoples and had many forests and rivers.
Eastern Woodlands
These people lived in the Eastern Woodlands, lived in round homes, and were different from the Iroquois, who lived in longhouses.
Algonquians
This explorer sailed for the Dutch and claimed modern-day New York in 1609.
Henry Hudson
The arrival of horses, cows, pigs, and other Old World animals changed Native American life by providing new sources of food, transportation, and other resources. These animals came from this part of the world.
Old World
The interaction between European explorers and Indigenous peoples eventually helped create this enormous exchange of goods, animals, plants, and diseases that changed economies and societies around the world.
Columbian Exchange