Native Americans/European Explorers Vocabulary Part I Native American History European Explorers Native American History/ 5 W’s Vocabulary Part II European Explorers
The Question The Answer An object that is discovered which gives clues to ancient civilization.
The Question Categories What is an artifact?
The Question The Answer A person who teaches his faith to other people.
The Question Categories What is a missionary?
The Question The Answer A method in which trees and brush are burned to clear land for fields and villages.
The Question Categories What is slash –and –burn?
The Question The Answer The ability to fight off diseases.
The Question Categories What is immunity?
The Question The Answer An agreement signed in 1494 between Portugal and Spain that divided new land between the two countries.
The Question Categories What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The Question The Answer A Spanish conqueror.
The Question Categories What is a conquistador?
The Question The Answer A sophisticated instrument that the Mayans created using advanced mathematical and astronomical skills.
The Question Categories What is a calendar?
The Question The Answer Most of the Native American tribes lived in this North Carolina Region.
The Question Categories What is the Coastal Plains?
The Question The Answer The modern city that sits on the site of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
The Question Categories What is Mexico City?
The Question The Answer The ancient land-bridge that connected Asia and North America.
The Question Categories What is Beringia?
The Question The Answer The largest threat to Native Americans.
The Question Categories What is the Europeans?
The Question The Answer One would the describe the first inhabitants of North Carolina as______.
The Question Categories What are nomadic hunters?
The Question The Answer I was the first Englishman to sail around the world.
The Question Categories Who was Sir Francis Drake?
The Question The Answer I was the first European to circumnavigate around the world.
The Question Categories Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
The Question The Answer I explored modern-day Peru and conquered the Incas.
The Question Categories Who was Francisco Pizzaro?
The Question The Answer I sailed around the Southern tip of Africa to Asia.
The Question Categories Who was Vasco da Gama?
The Question The Answer I was the first European to reach the New World in 1492.
The Question Categories Who was Christopher Columbus?
The Question The Answer I explored the eastern coast of South America and America is named for me.
The Question Categories Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
The Question The Answer The event in 1607 the ended European Exploration.
The Question Categories What is the first English colony at Jamestown?
The Question The Answer Three results of European Exploration.
The Question Categories What were the death of millions of Native Americans, the Columbian Exchange, the Slave Trade, and European colonies in the Americas were established?
The Question The Answer Four reasons the Europeans explored the New World.
The Question Categories What were mercantilism, economic and military competition among countries, spread Christianity, and it was an adventure?
The Question The Answer The first Europeans to reach the New World.
The Question Categories Who were the Vikings?
The Question The Answer Most North Carolina Native American tribes were matriarchal. Matriarchal means_____.
The Question Categories What is mothers were the center of families?
The Question The Answer This caused the deaths of millions of Native Americans.
The Question Categories What is the spread of disease?
The Question The Answer Stories passed down from generation to generation.
The Question Categories What is oral history?
The Question The Answer The movement of plants, animals, diseases, and other living things between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
The Question Categories What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Question The Answer A settlement in which the people of a particular region teach their faith to others.
The Question Categories What is a mission?
The Answer Question The Native American Language spoken by Native Americans living in the Catawba County Region.
The Question Categories What is the Siouan?
The Question The Answer A scientist who studies human culture.
The Question Categories What is an anthropologist?
The Question The Answer A scientist who studies the remains of ancient cultures.
The Question Categories What is an archaeologist?
The Question The Answer I explored Florida and was searching for the “Fountain of Youth”.
The Question Categories Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
The Question The Answer I explored the Southeastern part of North America. I was the first to explore the Carolinas and to reach the Mississippi Valley.
The Question Categories Who was Hernando de Soto?
The Question The Answer I explored modern-day Panama and discovered the Pacific.
The Question Categories Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
The Question The Answer I was an Italian who sailed for England and explored Newfoundland and Canada.
The Question Categories Who was John Cabot?
The Question The Answer The names of the 3 ships of Columbus’ first voyage to America.
The Question Categories What was the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?