1. Advanced Placement United States History UNIT I: Period 1: Precolumbian-1607

3. Chapter 1 Overview/Discussion Questions
Who discovered America????
How did the Native “Americans” get here?
Were Natives “savages?”
Why did the Europeans want to explore???

5. Major North American Native American Tribes

6. Major Central/South American Native Tribes

7. Major Trade Routes

8. Major European Explorers
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartholomeu Días
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Vasco Núñez Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernán Cortés
Francisco Pizarro
Hernando de Soto
Francisco Coronado
John Cabot
Giovanni Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
Sir Francis Drake
Henry Hudson
Marquette and Joliette