New World Beginnings
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| 333718706 | Corn or Maize | Staple crop that formed the economic foundation of Indian civilizations. | |
| 333718707 | Portugal | First European nation to send explorers around the west coast of Africa. | |
| 333718708 | Horse | Animal introduced by Europeans that changed Indian way of life on the Great Plains | |
| 333718709 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Treaty that secured Spanish title to lands in Americas by dividing them with Portugal. | |
| 333718710 | Mestizos | Person of mixed European and Indian ancestry. | |
| 333718711 | St. Augustine | Founded in 1565, it's the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in US territory | |
| 333718712 | Black Legend | Belief that the Spanish only killed, tortured, and stole in the Americas while doing nothing good | |
| 333718713 | Roanoke Island, NC | Colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580's. | |
| 333718714 | Joint-stock | Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool financial capital for colonial ventures. | |
| 333718715 | Charter | Royal document granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guaranteeing settlers their rights as English citizens. | |
| 333718716 | Indentured Servants | Penniless people obligated to forced labor for a fixed number of years, often in exchange for passage to the New World. | |
| 333718717 | Act of Toleration | Maryland statute of 1649 that granted religious freedom to all Christians, but not Jews and atheists. | |
| 333718718 | Squatters | Poor farmers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied land and raised crops without gaining legal title to the soil | |
| 333718719 | House of Burgesses | First representative government in New World. | |
| 333718720 | Ferdinand and Isabella | Financiers and beneficiaries of Columbus's voyages of discovery. | |
| 333718721 | Cortes | Conqueror of the Aztecs. | |
| 333718722 | Pizarro | Conqueror of the Incas. | |
| 333718723 | Dias and DaGama | Portuguese navigators who led early voyages of discovery. | |
| 333718724 | Columbus | Italian-born explorer who believed he arrived off the coast of Asia rather than on an unknown continent. | |
| 333718725 | Montezuma | Powerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquerors | |
| 333718726 | Elizabeth I | Unmarried English ruler who led England to national glory. | |
| 333718727 | Hiawatha | Legendary founder of the powerful Iroquois Confederation | |
| 333718728 | John Cabot | Italian-born explorer sent by the English to explore the coast of North America in 1498 | |
| 333718729 | Georgia | Founded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists. | |
| 333718730 | North Carolina | Colony that was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit". | |
| 333718731 | Smith and Rolfe | leaders who rescued Jamestown from the "starving time". | |
| 333718732 | Maryland | Founded as a haven for Roman Catholics. | |
| 333718733 | Lord Baltimore | Catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers. | |
| 333718734 | South Carolina | Colony that turned to disease-resistant African-American slaves for labor in its extensive rice plantations. | |
| 333718735 | Raleigh and Gilbert | Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies |
