Meet the Conquistadors

Let's Catch a Cab 1

100

How do some scientists believe peoples from Asia got to the Americas?

A land bridge

200

This is a tool or object that humans made and archaeologists study to help them understand the past

Artifact

300

What was a type of fort that was known as a town, also a city in Colorado

Pueblo

400

Name of a person of New Spain that had parents from Spain but were born in the Americas 

Creole 

500

What is the breeding of plants and animals to human advantage? 

Domestication

Let's Catch a Cab 2

100

This explorer thought he found a trade route to Asia for England, but he was wrong!

John Cabot

200

What is the practice of breeding plants and animals to human's advantages?

Domestication 

300

What is the practice of bringing water to crops? 

Irrigation

400

A type of fortification that where soldiers lived

Presidio

500

This Native American tribe died out within 100 years of Columbus sailing to the West Indies.

The Taino people

Age of Exploration

100

What year did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue, setting a turning point in exploration?

1492

200

How many years did it take Megellan's ships to circumnavigate, or sail across the world? 

3-3 1/2 years

300

What Native American group had tribes called the Hopewell, Adena, and Mississippians? 

Mound Builders

400

The Columbian Exchange involved goods from what three areas?

Europe, the Americas, and Africa

500

Who were the King and Queen of Spain that paid for Columbus to go to the New World? 

Ferdinand and isabella 

Spain Builds an Empire

100

The Aztecs built their capital city on a lake. What was the name of the capital? 

Tenochtitlan 

200

What was the name of  the type of fortification that were called towns? 

Pueblo

300

Explorer looking for the fountain of youth

Ponce de Leon

400

What were three of the reasons for victory for the Spaniards in the Americas?

Disease, the Natives thought the Europeans were Gods, and superior military equipment 

500

What were the names of the social classes of New Spain in order from the top to the bottom?

Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, and slaves 

Colonizing North America

100

What were the explorers of North America trying to find? 

The Northwest Passage, a trade route to Asia

200

What was the big industry of trade in North America? 

Furs

300

The Dutch brought over a tradition of leaving their shoes out for this person...

Santa Claus or Saint Nick

400

Samuel de Champlain founded the first settlement in present-day Canada. What was the name of it and it is a city of Canada today? 

Quebec

500

Martin Luther posted 95 Theses to the door of the Church starting this movement.

The Protestant Reformation