Explorers
Was trying to reach the Indies, but landed in the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
An Animal that was an important natural resource to the Sioux or Plains Native Americans.
What is Buffalo?
The number of English colonies that formed the original United States.
What are 13?
People who study the past using documents (primary resources).
Who are historians?
The Nile River flows through this continent and the Sahara is a desert in the North of this continent.
What is Africa?
The 7 Continents.
What are Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, Antarctica, North America, and Africa.
What are Tipis?
The first colonist traded with these people for things they needed.
What is Native Americans?
The source of Ancient Egypt’s wealth that flooded each year.
Referred to as “the Far East”. It was ruled by an emperor. People here learned how to make silk threads.
What is China?
America was named after him, was a master navigator.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Tribe that lived in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah and lived in Hogans.
What is Navajo?
These people left England for religious beliefs and landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The father of the Jewish nation found in the book of Genesis in the Bible.
Who is Abraham?
(Double Jeopardy)
People of this country built large citadel cities in the Indus Valley that mysteriously disappeared.
What is India?
Viking looking for land to the west, leader of the first Europeans to have landed in the Americas.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
The Inuit lived in these houses.
What are igloos?
(Double Jeopardy)
The first successful English colony established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Ancient people who were sailors and traders who lived in Canaan. They made purple dye & glass.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Found a way to reach Asia by sailing west around the Americas, crew was first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The Tlingit built these to tell their history.
What are totem poles?
(Double Jeopardy)
The three regions that made of the original Colonies.
What are New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies?
Ruler of Babylon who wrote the first set of written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This king of Babylon went “mad” for a time and thought he was a god. He built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?