Natives I
Lived from the Mississippi River to Rocky Mountains; Cheyenne and Sioux grew crops, hunted buffalo, rode horses and lived in teepees
Plains
Alaska/Canada; Aluet and Inuit made boats with whale ribs, wasted no animal parts and built dome shaped houses with ice. Cree traveled to hunt Caribou in toboggans (sleds)
Artic/Subartic
Who is credited with discovering America?
Christopher Columbus
Led by Henry the Navigator, this time period in the 1400-1500s resulted in European countries have mapped the world more accurately than ever before.
Age of Exploration
Name of the land bridge hunter-gatherers used to follow animals into North America
Bering Strait
New York to Virginia; Iroquois become a very powerful tribe and were at war a lot with other tribes
Northeast
Pacific Coast; Diverse culture area with over 100 tribes and 200 dialects/languages - many used harpoons to fish while traveling miles to sea
California
Early Italian explorer that traveled the Silk Road to China, and told the world about his travels through the book "Description of the World"
Marco Polo
Explorer that traveled for Spain; searched for India and found the Bahamas in 1492. He conquered Natives and set up the first Spanish colony in the West.
Christopher Columbus
Time period where Europe had a renewed interest in knowledge and learning
Renaissance
North Carolina to Gulf of Mexico; Cherokee and Seminole hunted buffalo or bear, farmed beans or squash and allowed women in high positions
Southeast
Arizona/New Mexico; Hopi live in pueblos or apartment-like dwellings and built irrigation ditches for farming
Southwest
Explorer that traveled for Spain and Portugal; Realized he was in a "new world" which led to a German mapmaker recognizing his findings as "America"
Amerigo Vespucci
Explorer for England and the Netherlands that claimed land in Canada for England, and claimed the Hudson River for the dutch. He also set up a fur trading post in Albany, New York
Henry Hudson
Conquistador describes a conqueror from what two countries?
Spain and Portugal
Lived near Nevada/Utah Desert; Shoshone had to dig for food, ate snakes or lizards, spent much of their time searching for water
Great Basin
Pacifc Coast Cascade/Rocky Mountains; Chinook lived in sophisticated fishing villages and their totem poles tell a story. Nez Perce fished salmon and built underground houses in the winter
Northwest/Plateau
This explorer from Spain traveled to the Philippines and was killed there. His group was the first to sail around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
French Explorer that traveled the St. Lawrence River and claimed land for France in Canada a decade after Verrazano searched for the Northwest passage
Jacques Cartier
Type of houses that Northeast Woodlands Natives lived in
Longhouses
Native American culture group known as the Temple Mound Builders. They developed after the Adena and the Hopewell.
Mississippians
This group of people were cliff-dwellers that build apartment-like pueblos with adobe bricks
Anasazi
Spanish explorers that conquered the Aztecs and Incas, made Spain the richest country in the world
Cortes/Pizarro
Explorer for Portugal that found a sea route to India after rounding the Cape of Good Hope
Vasco da Gama
The first North American government was created by the
Iroquois OR Iroquois League