Native American Nations
This Nation was famous for their League of Five Nations and Society of False Faces.
Iroquois
What is the special name for corn, beans, and squash?
Three Sisters
Who sailed for England as privateer, explored the western coast of North America and circumnavigated the globe?
Sir Francis Drake
Who shut down the land routes to the Far East?
the Turks
Who was the first European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
What French explorer explored the St. Lawrence region of Canada?
Jacques Cartier
This Nation lived in Peru and built thousands of miles of roads over rocky land for protection.
Inca
Maize was grown for food, what is it?
Corn
Who started a navigational school even though he was never an explorer?
Prince Henry of Portugal
A German mapmaker drew a world map naming the New World after what explorer?
Amerigo Vespucci (America)
Who was the Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru?
Francisco Pizarro González
What Spanish explorer discovered the Mississippi River flowed south into the Gulf of Mexico?
Hernando de Soto
This Nation used special rooms called kivas for religious ceremonies and believed in spirits called kachinas.
Pueblo
What is the name for the special way of writing by arranging knotted and colored strings?
Quipu
Who was a Portuguese explorer who sailed south around the tip of Africa to India?
Vasco de Gama
Who discovered the Grand Banks, rich fishing banks off the coast of Newfoundland?
John Cabot
Who was the a Portuguese explorer that tried to circumnavigate the world but was killed in the Philippines?
Ferdinand Magellan
What Spanish explorer traveled in the Southwest and discovered the Grand Canyon?
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
What nation was warlike and practiced human sacrifices to please their gods?
Aztec
What two nations are considered the Great Empires?
Aztec and Inca
Who was an Italian who sailed for Spain and discovered the “New World” in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Who was the Spanish explorer that searched for the “fountain of youth,” but found Florida instead?
Juan Ponce de León
Who sailed for both the English and the Dutch in search for a Northwest Passage through North America?
Henry Hudson
What do we call the agreement that split the world in two between Spain and Portugal?
Treaty of Tordesillas
This nation believed in the “Great Spirit of Manitou” and memory scrolls.
Algonquin
Name 3 natural resources used by the Native Americans.
trees, water, land animals, sea animals, dirt,
Who was an Italian who sailed for England and discovered Newfoundland and Nova Scotia?
John Cabot
What Spanish explorer was ruthless, cruel and conquered the Aztec of Mexico?
Hernán Cortés
Who was the an Italian explorer that sailed for France along the Atlantic Coast of North America?
Giovanni da Verrazzano
What was an important navigational tool in the 15th century?
astrolabe