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| 7238910079 | Reasons for exploration in the New World | Demand for more and cheaper products Search for new routes Gold, Glory, Gospel--wanted to become rich and famous, convert people to Christianity. | 0 | |
| 7238928174 | Recorded history began________ years ago. | 6,000 | 1 | |
| 7238931654 | What was three-sister farming? | An agricultural method in which corn, beans and squash were grown together | 2 | |
| 7238935778 | A theory that suggest that the continents were once a whole as one mega-continent | Pangaea | 3 | |
| 7238946105 | Linking Asia and North America across what is known as the Bering Sea. People were said to walk across before the sea level rose and sealed it off. | The Land Bridge | 4 | |
| 7238948952 | The Land Bridge is said to have occurred _________________ years ago. | 35,000 | 5 | |
| 7238954194 | Countless________ emerged with an estimated _________ languages. | Tribes, 2,000 | 6 | |
| 7238958186 | Peru, with elaborate network of roads and bridges linking their empire. | Incas | 7 | |
| 7238960579 | Yucatan peninsula, with their step pyramids. | Mayas | 8 | |
| 7238963108 | Mexico, with step pyramids and huge sacrifices of conquered peoples. | Aztecs | 9 | |
| 7238972234 | Developed around 5,000 B.C. , Settled to be farmers, gave rise to towns, increased profit, simple to grow and harvest, | Corn/Maize | 10 | |
| 7238997413 | Maize early on affected which civilizations? | Mayan, Aztec, Incan empires and Mississippians, Mound Builders, Anasazis. | 11 | |
| 7239129777 | 1st corn growers, lived in adobe houses. | Pueblo Indians | 12 | |
| 7239138028 | Built huge ceremonial and burial mounds and were located in the Ohio River Valley. | Mound Builders | 13 | |
| 7239159560 | Grew corn, beans and squash known as sister farming, had the best (most diverse) diet of all the North American Indians. | Eastern Indians | 14 | |
| 7239160783 | How did three sister farming work? | Corn grew in a stalk providing a trellis for beans, beans grew up the stalk, squash's broad leaves kept the sun off the ground and thus kept the moisture in the soil. | 15 | |
| 7239171171 | A group of 5 tribes in New York State, each tribe kept their independence, | Iroquois Confederation | 16 | |
| 7239173830 | Leader of the Iroquois Confederation | Hiawatha | 17 | |
| 7239178925 | Differences between the Indians and the Europeans: | -Native Americans felt tribes owned the land (Europeans felt man owned the land) -Indians felt nature was mixed with many spirits (Europeans were Christian and monotheistic) -Indians had little or no interest in money (Europeans loved money or gold) | 18 | |
| 7239192615 | Who were the first Europeans to come to America? | Norse (Vikings from Norway) | 19 | |
| 7239197371 | Leader of the Vikings | Erik the Red and Leif Erikson | 20 | |
| 7239200333 | Vikings landed in __________ or ___________ | Newfoundland or Vinland | 21 | |
| 7239231136 | Travled to China and stirred up a storm of European interest. | Marco Polo | 22 | |
| 7239232957 | a ship with a triangular sail that could better tack ahead into the wind and thus return to Europe from the African coast | Caravel | 23 | |
| 7239238095 | a sextant gizmo that could tell a ship's latitude | Astrolabe | 24 | |
| 7239242428 | The first slave trade was across the __________________. | Sahara Desert | 25 | |
| 7239254046 | Christopher Columbus convinced ________________ and _____________ to fund his expedition. | Isabella and Ferdinand | 26 | |
| 7239277142 | What was Christopher Columbus's goal? | Reach the East Indies by sailing West, thus bypassing the around-Africa route that Portugal monopolized. | 27 | |
| 7239305083 | The Columbian Exchange from the New World to the Old World | Corn, potatoes, tobacco, beans, squash, wild rice. | 28 | |
| 7239310814 | The Columbian Exchange from the Old World to the New World | Cows, pigs, horses, sugar cane, carrots, apples, diseases. | 29 | |
| 7239325615 | Portugal and Spain feuded over who got what land. The pope drew this line as he was respected by both. The line ran North-South and chopped off the Brazilian coast of South America. Portugal got everything east of the line and Spain got everything west. | Treaty Line of Tordesillas 1494 | 30 | |
| 7239386265 | "Discovered" the Pacific Ocean across isthmus of Panama | Vasco Balboa | 31 | |
| 7239392717 | Circumnavigates the globe | Ferdinand Magellan | 32 | |
| 7239400109 | Conquers Incan Empire of Peru | Francisco Coronado | 33 | |
| 7239403546 | Indians were "commended" or given to Spanish landlords. Idea was to convert Indians to Christianity. | Ecomienda System | 34 | |
| 7239419976 | Native American Empire who lived in Mexico | Aztecs | 35 | |
| 7239421891 | Developed to gather the savings from the middle class to support finance colonies. | Joint stock companies | 36 | |
| 7239435242 | Groups of ships sent by King Phillip II of Spain to invade England in 1588. Was defeated by English "sea dogs" in the Channel. | Spanish Armada | 37 | |
| 7263408793 | The first European explorers reached the region that would become the Americas more than ____________________ | 500 years ago | 38 | |
| 7263413916 | What proof has led researchers to conclude that the earth once contained a singular continent | There are identical species of fish in freshwater lakes across the globe | 39 | |
| 7263421686 | What is the dominant theory about how the first people arrived in what we now call North America | They walked across a land bridge from Eurasia to North America | 40 | |
| 7263437846 | The Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs owe the development of their sophisticated early civilization to _______________ | Agriculture, partially the cultivation of corn or maize | 41 |
