Historical Thinking
This type of source was created by someone who experienced or witnessed the event or time period.
What is a Primary Source?
This Spanish explorer claimed Florida for Spain.
This explorer was one of the first to land in the New World as he searched for another way to India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What is the Southwest Region?
English settlers came to the New World for this to escape the crowded island of England.
What is Land?
This economic system saw companies fund colonies by selling stock to investors.
The emperor of Mali, Mansa Musa, turned this city into a center for Islamic Learning and Culture.
What is Timbuktu?
This type of source analyzes primary sources to determine their significance.
What is a Secondary Source?
This Spanish Explorer explored the Southwest and plains regions of the US. He also discovered the Grand Canyon.
Who is Francisco de Coronado?
This French explorer explored the St. Lawrence River and established a fort at Quebec.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Native Americans in the Eastern woodlands and the southeast built these.
What are Mounds?
English settlers were drawn by this in order to get rich quick.
What is Personal Wealth?
This saw a transfer of crops, animals, and diseases go from the New World to Europe and Vice Versa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the sea route that brought slaves from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This historical thinking skill ask historians to review the narrative they have created to determine its significance.
What is Historical Interpretation?
The Spanish Explorer who first discovered the Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
This French explorer journeyed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and named the Louisiana Territory.
Who is Robert de La Salle?
Tribes in this area where known for rock drawings called Petroglyphs.
Who are the Great Basin and Plateau Tribes?
English settlers came to America seeking this and the desire to explore new lands
What is adventure?
This division made by Pope Alexander IV separated Spain and Portugal's claims to the America's.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
This was the first large empire in West Africa and amassed wealth by trading copper, salt, gold, and ivory.
What is Ghana?
This historical thinking skill asks historians to review primary sources, often from multiple perspectives, and determine their credibility.
What is Historical Evaluation?
This Spanish Explorer conquered the Aztec Civilization.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
This French Explorer discovered and explored the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
What is Animism?
English settlers came to America to gain both of these freedoms.
This is the first self-governing body in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This West African Empire conquered Ghana and expanded its ivory and gold trade. Its capital became the center of Islamic Learning.
What is Mali?
This historical thinking skill asks historians to create a narrative of facts based on credible sources.
What is Historical Synthesis?
This Norseman led the viking exploration of North America in 1000AD.
Who is Leif Ericsson?
This English sea captain raided Spanish outposts in the New World and took on the Spanish armada.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
These cultures were known for their creativity in building canals, pyramids, and temples in Mesoamerica.
Who are the Central and South American Tribes?
This economic system was used to increase the wealth of the mother country by using colonies to gain raw material and then selling goods back to the colonies.
What is Mercantilism?
This first U.S. Colony was built with economic motives and was run by John Smith.
What is the Jamestown Colony?
This West African Empire grew after the decline of Mali and became the largest in West African history.
What is Songhai?