Age of Discovery Unit
Mr. Lickteig
Fort Riley Middle School
Fort Riley, KS
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| to move from place to place in search of food | ||
| how early humans fed themselves | ||
| a type of subsistence agriculture involving herding animals into fenced areas of grass | ||
| taming animals to make them useful to humans | ||
| to plant crops; taming plants | ||
| farming; led to civilization | ||
| when groups of people came together to develop different forms of technology and culture | ||
| morpheme meaning "field" | ||
| morpheme meaning "to grow" | ||
| morpheme meaning "relating to citizenship" | ||
| the land bridge that allowed for human migration to the Americas | ||
| morpheme for "to move" | ||
| farming to feed your family only | ||
| farming using machines, typically for profit | ||
| the most important crop to an area | ||
| the staple crop of the world | ||
| the staple crop of the US | ||
| the staple crop of Kansas | ||
| the yield from plants in a single growing season | ||
| morpheme meaning "to travel" | ||
| morpheme meaning "under" | ||
| morpheme meaning "around" | ||
| to travel around the entire item; ex: the world | ||
| the first European to the Americas | ||
| Viking, discovered America 500 years before Columbus | ||
| person who funded exotic trips around Africa in search of wealth; other nations began to follow suit | ||
| Prince Henry's nation | ||
| 1492; first European to Americas and encourage further exploration; Italian by birth, sailed for Spain | ||
| Queen of Spain that gave Columbus the opportunity to make his trip to the New World | ||
| Europe, Asia, and Africa prior to the Columbian Exchange | ||
| North and South America prior to the Columbian Exchange | ||
| the year Columbus sailed the ocean blue | ||
| an agreement between (at least) two different groups or nations | ||
| signed in 1494 to prevent violence between Spain and Portugal on who's land was who's in the New World, written by Pope Alexander VI | ||
| first European to see the Amazon River, America is named for him; Portugese explorer | ||
| first European to see the Pacific Ocean by crossing the isthmus of Panama, which he referred to as the "South Sea" because he was facing south; Spanish explorer | ||
| a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas | ||
| European explorer who ventured through Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth; Spanish explorer | ||
| what Ponce de Leon was searching for in Florida | ||
| what Coronado was searching for in Kansas | ||
| conquistador; conquered the Aztec Empire | ||
| leader of the Aztec Empire during the conquest of the Aztec by the Spanish (1519-1521) | ||
| Spanish explorer who defeated a Native empire | ||
| first man to circumnavigate the earth, although he didn't live to see it through; Spanish explorer | ||
| the tip of South America where Magellan passed through on his trip to circumnavigate the globe | ||
| a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | ||
| Spanish conquistador who defeated the Inca Empire | ||
| the native empire located in Mexico | ||
| the native empire located in South America; Andes Mountains | ||
| the native empire that had fallen apart before Europeans; located in the Yucatan Penninsula and Central America | ||
| root word meaning "central" | ||
| dry, lacking significant amounts of rain | ||
| Spanish explorer who explored parts of the Southeastern United States in search of gold | ||
| Spanish explorer; first European to Kansas (200 years before the next group of explorers) | ||
| Dutch explorer who discovered parts of the river that later becomes New York City | ||
| English explorer who was searching for a Northwest Passage to Asia; discovered a large bay in Northern Canada | ||
| French explorer who was the first European to see the Mississippi River | ||
| the meeting of Old and New Worlds during the Age of Discovery; the transfer of animals, plants, disease, and technology between the two different worlds | ||
| New York City was originally claimed for this Nation by Hudson; was called New Amsterdam |
