Terms
Pre-Historic Indian Cultures
Instruments of Explorers
Early Explorers
Southeast Exploration
100

A preliminary conclusion that the historian must gather evidence to support.

What is the hypothesis?

100

Theory explaining the early arrival of Ancient Americans during the Ice Age.

What is the Land-Bridge Theory?

100

Special ship for long voyages with the Lateen Sail.

What was the Caravel?

100

Number of voyages Columbus made to the New World.

What was 4?

100

Spanish explorer discovered this important current around Florida.

What is Gulf Stream?

200

Type of source based upon personal interviews, speeches, govt. documents or diaries.

What are primary sources?

200

Most primitive of Pre-Historic Indians as hunter-gatherers.


What were the Paleo-Indians?

200

Navigation instrument for locating places using latitude.

What was the astrolabe?

200

Treaty between Spain and Portugal establishing a line of demarcation regarding exploration. 


What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?

200

Spanish conquistador that led an expedition through the southeast including Georgia.

Who was De Soto?

300

A biography is an example of this type of source.

What is a secondary source?

300

They lived in warmer climate hunting large and small game animals.  Later adopted pottery making.


What were the Archaic Indians?

300

Helped mariners find direction with the True North.


What was the compass?

300

He explored for England looking for the NW Passage.


Who was John Cabot?

300

Jean Ribault's attempted colonization on the St. Johns River.

Where was Ft. Caroline?

400

Time-line is an example of this concept for ordered events.


What is chronology?

400

The Woodland Indians built these mounds for ceremonial or religious reasons.


What were effigy mounds?

400

Used for surveying lands from a distance.


What was the crosshatch?

400

First explorer to circumnavigate the globe.

Who was Magellan?

400

Pedro Menendez successfully started this Spanish colony in N. Florida.


Where was St. Augustine?

500

A natural object.


What are ecofacts?

500

They lived along rivers with enclosed palisades and built flat-topped pyramids from earth.


Who were the Mississippians?

500

Give the explorers military superiority over natives in battle.


What were firearms?

500

This explorer gave America its name.

Who was Amerigo Vespucci?

500

Killed about 90% of the Native-Americans in the wake of De Soto's march through the SE.

What were epidemics?