Native American Life
This was the first domesticated crop developed in southern Mexico around 10,000 years ago.
What is Maze or corn.
These companies were organized as a corporation to reduce personal liability, produce profits for shareholders, and fund expeditions of exploration.
What were Joint-Stock Companies?
This was first invented in China and showed the direction of true north.
What was the magnetic compass?
This nation first laid claim to the New World.
What is Spain?
A primary motivation for exploration and colonization.
What was God, glory, or gold?
Theory that states Native Americans crossed from Siberia to Alaska via a frozen land bridge 20,000 years ago.
What is the Land Bridge theory?
The royal patron of Portugal who funded expeditions and started a sailing school.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
This tool helped plot direction and location using the stars.
What is the astrolabe?
This nation established its first successful New World colony at Jamestown.
What is England?
A reason why Europeans soldiers had a considerable advantage over their counterparts in the Americas.
What is guns, cannons, gunpower, or horses?
Goods from the Gulf of Mexico, Rocky Mountains, Northeast, Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Atlantic Coast were all found in this Mississippi River Valley trade center.
What was Cahokia?
Either of the first two European nations to explore new sea routes to the Indian Ocean.
Who is Portugal or Spain?
New more maneuverable and faster ships used by explorers such as Columbus.
What were caravels?
This European nation was the first to establish sea trade routes to the Indies around the southern tip of Africa.
What was Portugal?
These charts were the newest version of cartography use to navigate new territory and provided a reliable and accurate mapping technique that Europeans could use to re-navigate the sea.
What were portolan maps?
This Native American culture group was able to live in semi-permanent settlements, primarily from the sea and lush coniferous rainforests.
What is the Northwest Pacific culture?
The royal patrons of Spain who funded Christopher Columbus's expeditions to the New World.
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain?
Early explorers discovered these consistent wind patterns which more easily allowed Europeans to sail to and from the New World.
What are trade winds or westerlies?
This nation was the first to explore the Saint Lawrence River and establish a colony in lower Canada.
Who is France?
This Spanish priest was noted for his argument against the harsh treatment of the Native Americans has his defense for their rights.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
This Native American culture group established seasonal settlements near river basins in the spring and winter while moving frequently summer due to lack of water resources.
What is the Great Basin culture?
With the decline of this trade route, following the end of the Mongolian Empire in the 1300s, Europeans were left without a connection to the lucrative markets of India and China.
What was the Silk Road?
This invention provided for better steering on caravel ships.
What was the stern-post rudder?
This nation was the first to establish a colony at the mouth of the Hudson River on Manhattan Island.
What is the Netherlands or Dutch?
The number of voyages Christopher Columbus made to the New World.
What is four?