Indigenous Peoples
These three crops were often planted together because they helped one another grow.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
These religious wars increased European contact with goods and ideas from Asia.
What were the Crusades?
This explorer sailed west for Spain in 1492 but reached the Americas instead of Asia.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This exchange connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas after Columbus’s voyages.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
his Indigenous nation formed an alliance with the Plymouth colonists.
Who were the Wampanoag?
Alabama is located in this Indigenous cultural region.
Where is the Southeast Woodlands?
The Crusades were mainly fought over control of this region.
What is the Holy Land?
This explorer traveled through the Southeast searching for riches.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
Horses were transported from this continent to the Americas.
What is Europe?
The Wampanoag shared knowledge that helped this colony survive.
What was Plymouth Colony?
Indigenous groups used nearby plants, animals, and natural materials to meet their needs. This shows how they adapted to their
What is the enviornment?
This period brought renewed interest in learning, art, science, and exploration.
What is the Renaissance?
This explorer searched the Southwest for legendary cities of gold.
Who was Francisco Vásquez de Coronado?
Corn and potatoes traveled from the Americas to this continent.
What is Europe?
The French and Huron benefited from exchanging furs and European goods through this activity.
What is trade?
This crop gave bean vines a tall stalk on which to climb.
What is corn?
This invention allowed information and new ideas to spread more quickly.
What is the printing press?
This explorer searched northeastern waterways for a Northwest Passage.
Who was Henry Hudson?
These caused the deaths of many Indigenous people who lacked immunity.
What were European diseases?
The Powhatan Wars involved the Powhatan people and settlers from this English colony.
What was Jamestown?
What are the cultural regions of Native Americans
This document, written by Martin Luther, criticized practices of the Catholic Church.
What are the 95 Theses?
This Portuguese prince sponsored voyages along the western coast of Africa.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
Name two types of things exchanged during the Columbian Exchange.
What are plants, animals, diseases, people, goods, or ideas?
Accept any two correct examples.
Competition for these two things was a major cause of conflict between colonists and Indigenous peoples.
What are land and natural resources?