Mesoamerica
The ancient civilization known for creating accurate calendars and pyramids.
What is the Maya?
The country Prince Henry the Navigator helped lead in exploration.
What is Portugal?
The first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Native Americans of the Great Plains relied on this animal for food, clothing, and shelter.
What is the buffalo (bison)?
The trade route connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
The Aztec capital city built on a lake.
What is Tenochtitlán?
He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The Pilgrims signed this agreement to establish self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Iroquois lived in these large family dwellings.
What are longhouses?
The journey enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
This crop was the basis of Mesoamerican diet and society.
What is maize (corn)?
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain and reached the Caribbean in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This colony was founded by William Penn as a “holy experiment.”
What is Pennsylvania?
Native Americans of the Arctic relied on this food source.
What are fish and seals?
England’s economic system that sought to control colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
The Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the New World between these two countries.
What are Spain and Portugal?
The New England colonies’ economy was based on this activity.
What is trade, shipbuilding, or fishing?
The Cherokee were forced to move west on this tragic journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The war between Britain and France in North America (1754–1763).
What is the French and Indian War?
The Inca used this system of knotted strings to record data.
What is quipu?
The Columbian Exchange introduced this deadly disease to the Americas.
What is smallpox?
The rebellion in Virginia that showed tension between settlers and colonial leaders.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This confederacy of tribes served as a model of democracy.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The system that granted Spanish colonists the right to demand labor from Native Americans.
What is the encomienda system?