Native American Migration/ Settlement
Where is the Bering Strait?
Between Russia and Alaska.
What European explorer created the first permanent settlement in the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
What did Europeans want while trading from Africa?
Gold and Salt
What was traded in the Columbian Exchange?
Food and Animals.
Idaho
Boise
Why was rivers important for native American tribes?
Reliable food and water.
What explorer was America named after?
Amerigo Vespucci
What did Mansa Musa do to make him famous.
Went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and crash the economy by giving away gold.
What invention helped spread navigational knowledge?
The Printing Press.
California
Sacramento
What food did the natives eat more of after the ice age?
More berries and crops.
What explorer circumnavigated the Globe?
Magellan
What dessert in Africa was crossed for trade?
The Sahara desert
What continent did Portugal first travel too?
Africa
Colorado
Denver
What are the charectisrtics and uses of a Wickup?
Easy to set up and move. Made out of grass and saplings.
What explorer discovered the Americas first?
Leif Erickson
Double Jeopardy: How was war in West Africa different before Europeans sought to buy slaves.
Involved Captives from War.
What did the Treaty of Tordisillas do?
It split the world in half. Spain colonized the west and Portugal could colonize the East.
Florida
Tallahassee
This explorer helped conquer the Aztec Empire.
Hernan Cortez
Why did the Moroccan invasion of the Songhai empire succeed?
Early Firearms and Cannons.
Maine
Augusta