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Corn
Maize
Christopher Columbus
Civilization that built terraces to grow crops on mountainsides
Inca
Learned farming from the Pueblos
Navajos
How people migrated to North America from Asia
The Bering Land Bridge
Sail or travel around the world
Circumnavigate
Portuguese explorer credited as being the first to sail around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
Early civilization called "Mother Culture of Mesoamerica"
Olmec
Lived on the sides of high mesas in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah.
Mesa Verde Anasazi
Animals mistakenly called buffalo
Bison
Spanish conquerors
Conquistadors
Explored Florida and was looking for the rumored Fountain of Youth
Ponce de Leon
Civilization that developed an accurate 365-day calendar
Maya
Known for their Kachina (kuh·chee·nuh) rituals
The Hopi
Find spices and valuable goods
Scientists who study the remains of past human and animal life
Archaeologist
He found that the Mississippi River flowed into the Gulf of Mexico in New Orleans.
Robert La Salle
Civilization that build capital city of Tenochtitlán, the largest city in the Americas
Aztec
About 700 B.C., a group of American Indians began building burial mounds in the Ohio River Valley to honor their dead.
The Adena or Hopewell Indians
Before Christopher Columbus, this city was the biggest city in North America, north of Mexico.
Cahokia
People who move from place to place in search of hunting grounds
Nomads
Explored the American Southwest and was searching for the legendary "Seven Cities of Gold."
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
The civilization that was the largest empire in South America before the arrival of the Spanish.
Inca
They lived in what is now upper New York and composed of five tribes- the Oneida, Mohawk, Onandaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.
Iroquois
France's main economic reason for exploring North America
Fur trade