Pre-Columbus
The bridge between Asia and North American during the Ice Age.
What is the Bering Strait?
They moved from place to place, following the herds of buffalo.
What are nomads?
The system of trade between Europe and Asia.
What is The Silk Road?
This person was the first European to "discover" the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This was an unsuccessful English colony in which its inhabitants disappeared.
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
People who hunt and gather food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
The Pueblo lived in homes made from this natural resource.
What is adobe? What is clay?
They invented gunpowder.
Who are the Chinese?
This country conquered the Aztecs and the Incas.
What is Spain?
This was the first successful English colony made up of wealthy men.
What is Jamestown?
These are large mammals with tusks during the Ice Age.
What are wooly mammoths?
The natives of the Great Plains lived in these homes because it was easy to put up and take down.
What are teepees?
People wanted to go to India for this.
What are spices?
This country claimed land in what is now Canada and traded fur.
What is France?
He said, "Those who don't work, don't eat."
Who is Captain John Smith?
These people made sharp pointed tools from stone.
Who are the Clovis people?
These large homes were made of cedar logs.
What are plank houses?
This are people who trade or sell goods.
What are merchants?
This is the name of the northern route from America to Asia that explorers tried to find.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This were large pieces of land offered to anyone willing to move to New Spain.
What are economiendas?
Hunter and gathers were finally able to settle in one place because they were able to do this.
What is farm?
This is the name given to the most important crops the Natives grew; beans, corn, and squash.
What are "The Three Sisters?"
This was a high sought after commodity made from silkworms.
What is silk?
This is the exchange of goods, information, ideas, and etc. between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This country forced Catholicism and slavery onto Native Americans by building missionaries.
What is Spain?