First Americans
These were the first people to arrive in the Americas
Who are hunter-gathers?
This tribe in Arizona dug irrigation ditches for farming.
Who were the Hohokam?
The Inuit lived in this cold, treelesss region.
What is the Arctic?
Columbus sailed for this country's king and queen.
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What is Spain?
Bonus: Who were Ferdinand & Isabella?
This staple crop from the Americas improved diets in Europe.
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What are potatoes?
What are tomatoes?
What is Corn?
Settlements often formed near these natural resources.
What are rivers and lakes?
This group built pueblos out of adobe bricks in the Four Corners region.
Who were the Anasazi?
The Sioux lived on these dry, grassy lands with hot summers and cold winters.
What are the Great Plains?
He landed in this area on October 12, 1492.
What is the West Indies?
These animals brought by Europeans transformed farming and transportation in the Americas.
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What are horses?
What cattle?
What are pigs?
This civilization was known for mathematics, astronomy, and a 365-day calendar.
Maya
These builders created structures that were similar to pyramids.
Who were the mound builders?
The Natchez were the largest tribe in this hot, humid region.
What is the Souteast?
Who was the conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
Brought by Europeans, this destroyed native tribes in the Americas.
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What is disease?
Bonus: What is small pox?
What is measles?
What is the flu?
This civilization was located in present-day Mexico.
Aztec
This was formed by five clans in the 1500s but failed to stop wars.
What is the Iroquois League?
The Chipewyan were the largest tribe in this forested evergreen region.
What is the Subarctic?
Who was conquered the Incas?
Francisco Pizarro
As part of the Columbian Exchange, what had the greatest impact on the Americas?
Disease
This civilization had 10 million people and 10,000 miles of roads and bridges.
Inca
Many of the early tribes first learned to grow these THREE crops.
corn, beans, squash
Over 200 tribes lived here, with hot dry summers and mild wet winters.
What is California?
What did Columbus believe he had originally discovered when landing in the New World?
West Indies (actually landed in Hispaniola)
Overall, the Columbian Exchange permanently connected these two "worlds."
What are the Old World and the New World?