First Americans
These huge sheets of ice held so much water that sea levels dropped and uncovered the land bridge.
What are Glaciers?
Plains peoples like the Lakota depended on this animal for food, clothing, and shelter.
What is buffalo?
These tribe members chose the sachems and could remove them.
Who are clan mothers?
These three words sum up why Europeans explored.
What are gold, God, and glory?
In this year, Columbus reached the Caribbean and started lasting contact between the hemispheres.
What is 1492?
This land bridge once connected Asia and North America during the Ice Age.
What is Beringia?
What structure did the Natives in New York and the Eastern Woodlands live in?
How many nations were in the Iroquois League?
Five (Mohawk, Oneida, Onodaga, Cayuga, and Seneca)
Sailors used this tool to find their latitude by measuring the sun or stars.
What is the astrolabe?
This disease from Europe killed millions of Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
This theory says early people traveled by boat along the Pacific coast, eating fish, seals, and shellfish.
What is the coastal route theory?
Corn, beans, and squash were known by this name.
The Three Sisters
This famous Manhattan street follows the path of an old Lenape trail.
What is Broadway?
This small, fast Portuguese ship had triangular sails that let it sail against the wind.
What is the caravel?
The Spanish brought this animal, which changed how Plains peoples hunted buffalo.
What is the horse?
The time frame for human migration to the America's is understood to be
12,000-30,000 years ago
Describe one way a Native peoples adapted to their enviroment?
Adobe Houses - Southwest
Igloos - Inuits/ Northern Arctic Regions
Teepees - Plains peoples
The name Haudenosaunee means this.
"People of the Longhouse"
Explain how the desire for spices and new technology worked together to start the Age of Exploration.
Europeans wanted an all-water route to Asia to get spices without middlemen. Tools like the caravel, compass, and astrolabe made long ocean voyages possible.
This crop from the Americas fed so many people that Europe’s population grew. (Think Ireland)
What is the potato?
Explain why early hunters crossed Beringia and how they spread across the Americas.
They following large bands of animals, since they were hunter gatherers. Those bands of animals traveled over the land bridge.
This Algonquian people lived in the land that is now New York City.
Who are the Lenape?
Explain how the Grand Council made decisions and give one way it was similar to the U.S. government.
They decided by consensus, so everyone had to agree. Like Congress, representatives from separate nations met to make decisions for the whole group.
In 1453, this empire captured Constantinople and made trade routes to Asia harder to use.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Explain why historians call it an “exchange,” and give one positive and one negative effect.
Goods, animals, people, and diseases moved in both directions. Positive: new foods like corn and potatoes. Negative: disease killed millions of Native people, or Africans were enslaved to work on plantations.