vocab
When there are multiple, legitimate points of view about questions that matter to people
What is controversy?
What Europeans began to call the continents in the western hemisphere, named after Amerigo Vespucci who realized it was a continent separate from Asia
What is America?
People from Hawaii that memorized the stars and constellations to help them travel
Who are Polynesian Wayfinders?
Getting money
What is wealth?
Land governed by a sovereign state in the name of its citizens
What is a Nation?
What European explorers called the western hemisphere when they started to map it
What is New World?
The first European explorer to set foot on American Soil. He was also a Viking.
who is Leif Erikson?
Taking over
what is Power?
The study of human history through remains and artifacts they left behind.
what is ARCHAEOLOGY?
A Kuna word meaning “mature land” to refer to all of North and South America
What is ABYA YALA?
Realized that the Americas were separate from Asia
who is Amerigo Vespucci ?
motivated by a desire to spread Christianity to new lands and convert indigenous populations.
What is religion?
So long ago it was before people kept oral or written records
what is TIME IMMEMORIAL?
The part of the USA between Canada and Mexico on the north and south and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on the west and east
what is Main Land?
Sailed the ocean blue in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What is Silk Road?
A sophisticated way of passing down information from one generation to the next, created before written language had been invented
What is Oral Tradition?
What many Indigenous people call the continent of North America based on different stories about the earth being formed
what is Turtle Island?
An Italian who wrote about his years in China
Who is Marco Polo?
the Three Gs for exploration
What is God, Gold, Glory?