A preliminary conclusion that the historian must gather evidence to support.
What is the hypothesis?
Theory explaining the early arrival of Ancient Americans during the Ice Age.
What is the Land-Bridge Theory?
Special ship for long voyages with the Lateen Sail.
What was the Caravel?
Number of voyages Columbus made to the New World.
What was 4?
Spanish explorer discovered this important current around Florida.
What is Gulf Stream?
Type of source based upon personal interviews, speeches, govt. documents or diaries.
What are primary sources?
Most primitive of Pre-Historic Indians as hunter-gatherers.
What were the Paleo-Indians?
Navigation instrument for locating places using latitude.
What was the astrolabe?
Treaty between Spain and Portugal establishing a line of demarcation regarding exploration.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Spanish conquistador that led an expedition through the southeast including Georgia.
Who was De Soto?
A biography is an example of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
They lived in warmer climate hunting large and small game animals. Later adopted pottery making.
What were the Archaic Indians?
Helped mariners find direction with the True North.
What was the compass?
He explored for England looking for the NW Passage.
Who was John Cabot?
Jean Ribault's attempted colonization on the St. Johns River.
Where was Ft. Caroline?
Time-line is an example of this concept for ordered events.
What is chronology?
The Woodland Indians built these mounds for ceremonial or religious reasons.
What were effigy mounds?
Used for surveying lands from a distance.
What was the crosshatch?
First explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
Who was Magellan?
Pedro Menendez successfully started this Spanish colony in N. Florida.
Where was St. Augustine?
A natural object.
What are ecofacts?
They lived along rivers with enclosed palisades and built flat-topped pyramids from earth.
Who were the Mississippians?
Give the explorers military superiority over natives in battle.
What were firearms?
This explorer gave America its name.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
Killed about 90% of the Native-Americans in the wake of De Soto's march through the SE.
What were epidemics?