Geography
Vocabulary
Historical Events
Early Civilizations
Age of Exploration
100
Mountain range in Peru and Chile
What are The Andes
100
The natives or first people to inhabit a land
What are "Indigenous" people?
100
Norse (mainly Norwegian) settlers who arrived in Newfoundland and Greenland in 985 A.D.
Who were the Vikings?
100
The Mayans did not have an alphabet/written language but had a way to record important historical events that scientists can learn from today.
What were carved pictures or glyphs?
100
Spain and Portugal initially supplied funds for exploration and later conquered the indigenous people who lived there.
Why are Spanish and Portuguese the most commonly spoken languages in Central and South America?
200
An imaginary line around the center of the Earth where daylight and darkness are nearly equal year-round.
What is The Equator?
200
People such as early Native Americans who wandered from place to place hunting and gathering in search of food.
What are "Nomads?"
200
The first Inuit crossed the land bridge from Asia to North America
What is 4000-3000 B.C.
200
The two major civilizations of Central America.
What are the Mayan and Aztec cultures?
200
To find shorter trade routes to India/Asia.
Why did the Europeans send explorers across the ocean?
300
What is The Western hemisphere?
300
Historical period before Christopher Columbus made his voyages
What is Pre-Columbian?
300
In the 16th Century, the last Aztec emperor who was treated like a god, was killed by the Spanish conquerors.
Who was Montezuma?
300
This civilization built markets, high temples and pyramids whose architecture amazed the Spanish explorers who arrived in the early 1500s.
Who were the Aztecs?
300
Horses, pigs, cows, sheep, goats, apples, bananas, and grains as well as languages, Christianity, tools and weapons and diseases.
What did the Spanish conquerors bring to the Americas that were unknown before they arrived?
400
Location of the West Indies
What is The Caribbean Sea
400
What happens when a culture or civilization falls apart or disappears.
What is "decline?"
400
How scientists study cultures that existed 1000s of years ago.
What are ruins and archeological artifacts (jewelry, paintings, statues)?
400
This ancient civilisation worshipped the sun god and built tall structures from stone blocks without using nails.
Who were the Incas?
400
When Columbus landed in the Caribbean he made a big mistake.
Why did Columbus call the islands the Indies and the indigenous people Indians?
500
Location of Mayan cities
What are Mexico and Central America
500
Spanish name for conquerors like Pizarro
What are "conquistadores?"
500
One of the mightiest empires of the Americas whose civilization spread over the western coast of South America, but lasted less than a century (1440-1532 A.D.)
Who were the Incas?
500
We learned about the diet and class structure of this ancient civilization from the remains of the animals they ate (alligators, shellfish, deer)
Who were the Mayans?
500
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Who finally gave Columbus the money to see a new route to India?