Chapter 1: The First People in America
What is the movement of a number of people often to establish a new homeland?
Migration
What native tribe means "ancient ones?"
Anasazi
Traders used caravan routes and the ____ ____, which linked China and the West.
Silk Road
What two African kingdoms dominated their neighbors leading to the West African Slave Trade?
Kongo, Ndongo
Who is a person appointed by a king or queen to rule an area on his or her behalf?
Viceroy
What are communities of people who move from place to place, relying on plants and animals found in the wild for food?
Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers
_____ is a kind of clay still used for building in the Southwest.
Adobe
What improved the safety and efficiency of ocean travel?
Magnetic compasses
Who were the first Europeans to explore North America?
The Vikings
What were the THREE main kinds of settlements?
Pueblos, Missions, Presidios
The way a society behaves and its system of beliefs, laws, and customs is called _______.
Culture
Who lived in present-day Arizona after arriving from Mexico around the year 300 CE?
Hohokam
The _____ Atlantic Current moves clockwise between Europe and the Caribbean, and the _____ Atlantic Current travels counterclockwise between Africa and South America.
North, South
Born in Italy and trained in Portugal, ___________ ________ thought he could reach India faster if he sailed west.
Christopher Columbus
To revolt or rebel against authority, especially by sailors against their officers is called ______.
Mutiny
What were the FOUR ancient American cultures?
Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca
What are the SEVEN different environments of North America?
North, Northwest, West, Southwest, Great Plains, Southeast, Northeast
By the 1400s, the Portuguese began using small sailing ships called ________.
Caravels
Native Americans didn't have ________ to diseases such as smallpox, measles, and the flu.
Immunity
A _______ is a permission from the monarch to start a colony.
Charter
What type of government is ruled by god(s) and the priests are in charge?
Theocracy
What were the FIVE original tribes of the Iroquois League (now upstate New York)?
Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida
___ ________ were nine expeditions by Europeans to win back control of their holy sites from the Muslims.
The Crusades
A new kind of Spanish explorer and conqueror were called ______________.
Conquistadores
In 1682, Rene-Robert Cavalier sailed the length of the Mississippi River and claimed the area including what is now Louisiana for the ______.
French