Columbus
Italy
What is the country Christopher Columbus was originally from?
What are the Great Plains?
A "Great" landform with flat level land.
What are the three reasons explorers from Spain, England, France, and the Neatherlands explored?
Three G's (God, Gold, & Glory)
What is the cultural group that used the irrigation process to move/store water in dry areas?
Southwest (Mexico, Arizona, ect...)
What is the housing of the Iroquois?
longhouse
Spain
What is the country Columbus claimed land for/the country that gave him the money to explore?
What is the body of what the Mississippi River empties into?
Gulf of Mexico
What is the reason explorers wished to travel to Asia?
to obtain spices, silk, and other foreign goods to sell
What is the cultural group that were nomadic and survived on berries, bison, and antelop?
Plains People
What is the reason Native Americans had different cultures?
Adapted to different environments
What is the name of the route Columbus took to reach the Americas? (Hint: Other explorers tried this rount to Asia too.)
Northwest Passage
What is the longest river system in the US? (Hint: There are two rivers that make up this system.)
Mississippi and Missouri River
What was the results of slavery, killing, and stealing food on the Island of Hispanola?
Decrease in Native American population
What is the cultural group that survived off the Pacific Ocean (salmon, deer, seeds, berries, and nuts)?
Northen California
What is what earliest American crossed from Asia to reach North America?
land bridge
Asia/India
What is where Columbus was trying to reach on his voyage?
What is the largest mountain system in the United States?
The Rocky Mountains
What is how Bartoleme de las Cases described the native people?
obedient, faithful, humble, patient, peaceful (good or kind people)
What is the location of the cultural group called "the Mississippians"?
Cahokia
What is what caused the death of millions of Native Americans?
Disease, overwork, and slavery
What is the worldwide exchange of goods, ideas, animals, crops, and even disease between continents?
Columbian exchange
What are the oceans that flank (run along side) of the United States?
Atlantic and Pacific
What is all the Spainard cared about?
riches and land
What is the climate of the location of Southeastern cultural groups?
Long summers and short winters
What is characteristics of a Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilization?
They had a system of writing, great cities, social