Maya,Inca,Aztec:
What modern day country was the Mayan empire from?
Mexico
What did Christopher Columbus call the Native Americans?
Indians
What European explorer discovered the Americas?
Christopher Columbas
What country funded Columbus’s voyage?
Spain
What was the largest Ice age animal?
Wooly mammoth
Which disease killed off most of the Aztecs?
Small Pox
Where did the Native Americans originate?
Siberia and Asia
What year was the Americas permanently discovered?
1492
Where was Columbus from?
Italy
How was the Ice age put to an end?
The changes in the earths orbits and the resulting impact on sunlight reaching the Northern Hemisphere
Who conquered the Inca empire?
Francisco Pizarro
What famous holiday honors the Native Americans?
Thanksgiving
What was Columbus’s flagship named?
Santa Maria
How many ships were sent to North America during this voyage?
3 ships
Frozen ground that contains preserved organisms
Permafrost
What was Maliches role in the conquest of Mexico?
A human translator for Hernan Cortes
Who ruled the Cherokee tribe?
John Ross
Where was Ferdinand Magellan killed?
The Philippine’s
Columbus believed he was in what island when he found the Americas?
Indies Island
What is the name of the ancient relative of the Gray Wolf?
Dire Wolf
What was the name of the Aztec god that was mistaken for Hernan Cortes?
Quetzalcoatl
What was the first Native American tribe that was met by the Europeans?
Taino
Before Columbus, who found the Americas?
The Vikings but they weren’t super interested
The Santa Maria wrecked of the coast of?
Haiti
What caused the Ice age?
The Global tilt on the earth