Meso-America
A part basketball, part football game played with a rubber ball. The loser typically was condemned to death.
What is Ulama?
Reasons Columbus wanted to sail west.
What were wanting to finish the Crusades, evangelize, and find a way to India via the western waterways.
planted gardens and built libraries.
What did the Spanish Missions do besides evangelize?
Huguenots
Who were the French Protestants persecuted for their faith?
Founded in 1620 by Puritans.
What was Plymouth?
Tenochtitlan
What was the Aztec capital city?
Sagres
Sought a southern Polaris
1572 by French Catholics
When did St. Bartholomew's massacre occur?
Colony in Virginia founded in 1607
What was Jamestown?
Centralized in the Yucatan.
Where were the Mayan civilizations located?
Book of Prophecies
John Harrison
Who designed the first chronometer?
Who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world?
First European to find the Atlantic Ocean
Who was John Cabot?
A pyramidal style of government consisting of an emperor, four trusted prefects, and provincial governors.
What is Ma'at Government?
Leaking ship and more rope.
What were reasons the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria had to return twice before sailing west?
Mississippi River
What river did De Soto discover?
In 1590, this colony was discovered missing.
What was Roanoke?
Two leading founders of Plymouth.
Who were William Brewster and William Bradford?
Garden plots that produced two crops per year.
What were chinampas?
Pastor Antonio
Who helped Columbus learn to read Scripture, rethink navigation, and boat making?
Founder of Quebec.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
Founded Georgia
Who was James Oglethorpe?
Lived by the motto, "Whoever does not work, does not eat." Helped a colony survive.
Who was John Smith?