1st Americans
Time Periods
Exploration
Columbus
Hodge Podge
100

The first Americans showed up in North America this many years ago.

What is 12,000-14,000 years ago?

100

Period associated with the grinding stone.

What is Archaic?

100

This country had a monopoly on trade with the East Indies.

What is Italy.

100

This country funded Columbus's exploration.

What is Spain?

100

His tomb was discovered in 1922.

Who is King Tut?

200

This is the land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska during the Ice Age.

What is Beringia?

200

Period were the average life expectancy was 18 years old.

What is Woodland?

200

This stimulated exploration for new marketplaces.

What is the Black Death?

200

Columbus believed when he landed he was here.

What is the East Indies?

200

Historians focus on studying these type of artifacts.

What is written artifacts?

300

Naia was this age when she died.

What is 15-16 years old?

300

Period associated with hunting big game animals.

What is Paleo?

300

This country was the first to take the lead in exploration.

What is Portugal?

300

Columbus called the natives Indians, but they called themselves this.

What is Tainos?

300

This country dominated the new world in the 1500's.

What is Spain?

400

The supercontinent that existed 240 million years ago.

What is Pangea?

400

Period associated with burial mounds.

What is Mississippian?

400

This was the initial goal of exploration.

What is to find an all water route to the East Indies?

400

Oranges were gained by the ___ in the Columbian Exchange.

What is the New World?

400

This man's voyage proved you could sail west to get to the East Indies.

Who is Magellan?

500

Naia proved the first Americans came from here.

What is Asia?

500

Period of hunters and gatherers that descended from the Paleo People.

What is Archaic?

500

Portugal has approx. this percentage of the world's Christian population.

What is 2%?

500

The exchange of goods, people, ideas, and technology from the new and old worlds.

What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
This treaty drew an imaginary line down the Atlantic Ocean and gave everything west of the line to Spain and east to Portugal.

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?