Early Native Americans
Things left behind by early people such as stone tools, baskets, and carvings
What are Artifacts?
These were highly developed societies
What are Civilizations?
The Spanish name for the great stone dwellings built by the Anasazi
What are Pueblos?
Scientific knowledge for practical purposes such as the ability to travel farther to expand trade routes
What is technology?
The study of ancient peoples
What is Archeology?
People who move from place to place
What are nomads?
Sun dried mud brick used to build homes
What is Adobe?
The period of intellectual and artistic creativity that inspired many Europeans to explore the New World
What is The Renaissance?
A new from of sailing technology that allowed explorers to travel better on the high seas
What is a Caravel?
Periods of very cold temperatures when parts of the earth were covered with large sheets of ice
What are Ice Ages?
movement of a large number of people into a new homeland
What is migration?
Governments that link different groups
What are Federations?
European Explorers used this instrument to measure the stars
What is an Astrolabe?
A journey to a holy place
What is a Pilgrimage?
Maise is an early form of this vegetable
What is Corn?
These people ruled in a theocratic government.
What are religious leaders? Priests would also work
The contact from the Old World to the New World that led to an exchange of plants, animals, and disease that altered life on both sides of the Atlantic
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The imaginary line drawn by the Pope that ran down the middle of the Atlantic from the North Pole to the South Pole in order to divide land between Spain and Portugal
What is the Line of Demarcation?
Muslim houses of worship
What is a Mosque?
Scientists use this to find out how old an artifact is
What is carbon dating?
Symbols or pictures used to represent things, ideas, and sounds
What are Hieroglyphics?
This is a word that describes a certain person or group's way of life
What is Culture?
Spanish Explorers were also known as this
What are Conquistadors?
A narrow, twisting sea passage to the ocean
What is a Strait?
The idea that a nation's power is based on it's wealth
What is Mecantilism?
The Anasazi may have abandoned their large villages due to this.
What are droughts?
Create a complete sentence; Federations, Governments, Different Groups
Federations are Governments that link Different Groups.
Religious Communities set up by European Explorers
What are Missions?
You do this to the globe when you sail around the world
What is Circumnavigate?
Broad platforms cut into steep slopes used by the Inca to plant crops
What are Terraces?
A fee that conquered inhabitants are forced to pay
What is Tribute?
Native American culture varied depending on this.
What is the Region they lived in?
This word means "fort" in Spanish and they were built to protect missions
What is a Presidio?
A large estate where crops are planted
What is a Plantation?
These ideas came from the Greeks and Romans
What are Classical Ideas?
Create a complete sentence; Civilization, Maya, Theocracy
The Maya Civilization was ruled by a Theocracy.
This invention allowed Native Americans to live in one spot rather than constantly moving around
What is farming?
This European Nation established and governed a vast American Empire in the 16th Century
Who were the Spanish?
This route was supposed to help explorers get to Asia through the Americas
What was the Northwest Passage?
Create a complete sentence; Archaeologists, Carbon Dating, Artifact
Archaeologists use Carbon Dating to determine the age of an Artifact.
Early Native Americans migrated to America from Asia in search of this.
What are New Hunting Grounds?
Coastal Native Americans developed cultures that were centered around this.
What is The Ocean?
This led Europeans to explore overseas
What is New Knowledge and Ideas?
The Portuguese were searching for this as they ushered in a new era of overseas exploration
What are New Trade Routes?
Coureurs de Bois means this.
What is "runner of the woods"?