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  • A Moroccan slave of a Spanish nobleman-turned-explorer
    Esteban
  • The tribe of Woodland Indians around Jamestown
    Powhatan
  • The African empire that made their city independent by founding a thriving trade market
    Songhai
  • The improved instrument able to tell direction and time by lining up horizons and star coordinates
    astrolabe
  • What Christopher Columbus hoped to spread but mistreated and enslaved the Indians instead
    Catholicism
  • First Spaniard to explore Florida
    Juan Ponce de Leon
  • The Spaniard who came from Mexico to seek the legendary gold cities of Cibola and discovered adobe villages of Pueblo Indians
    Francisco Coronado
  • The fast sailing ships the Spanish used
    caravels
  • longhouses Eastern Woodland Indians constructed
    wigwams
  • The leader of Jamestown that demanded obedience and initiated a relationship with the Indians there
    John Smith
  • Seamen from northern Europe that planted colonies in Iceland or Greenland
    Vikings
  • Who the Native Americans believed communicated with spirits
    shamans
  • The chief of the Powhatan Indians
    Powhatan
  • Native American groups that lived in the Ohio Valley and Southeast, were called mound builders
    Southeast
  • The Frenchman who discovered the St. Lawrence River
    Jacques Cartier
  • The African empire that possessed gold and built trading posts on the edge of the Sahara
    Ghana
  • The people who used caravels, new instruments for navigation, focused on finding routes to the Indies
    Spanish
  • Give one example of a Native American tribe who lived on the Great Plains.
    Sioux, Cheyenne, Blackfoot
  • The oldest permanent city settled by Europeans in the United States
    St. Augustine
  • Where Christopher Columbus really ended up on his journey
    Bahamas
  • Spanish conquerors of Central and South America
    conquistadors
  • The first representative assembly in America
    Virginia House of Burgesses
  • Give one example of a Native American tribe from the Great Basin and Plateau regions.
    Shoshone, Ute, Nez Perce
  • Who was put in charge of the Lost Colony after Raleigh returned to England?
    John White
  • The best known Viking who founded Vinland (Newfoundland)
    Leif Ericson
  • Where Jamestown is located
    present day Chesapeake Bay, Virginia
  • What Englishman founded the Lost Colony?
    Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Samuel de Champlain became known as what for France?
    Father of New France
  • The man "America" was named after
    Amerigo Vespucci
  • What the earliest clans of people were because they were constantly on the move in search of food
    nomadic
  • The river that Hernando de Soto discovered
    Mississippi River
  • Native American groups called cliff dwellers, constructed houses in the sides of cliffs, made houses from adobe
    Southwest
  • During the Songhai empire, what market began to develop?
    Trans-Atlantic slave trade
  • Ancient civilization that occupied southern Mexico; Their name means "rubber people"
    Olmec
  • rock drawings that Native Americans from the Great Basin area carved
    petroglyphs
  • The people who settled around the St. Lawrence and Mississippi Rivers, traded clothing and tools for fur, built outposts to protect traders
    The French
  • Ancient civilization that occupied Mexico; were warriors
    Aztec
  • English pirates who disrupted the flow of Spanish wealth from the Americas
    Sea Dogs
  • The African empire that passed most of its history down orally
    Mali
  • What happened to the Lost Colony?
    disappeared with no trace
  • The three leading African empires during the 17th century (put in order of when established)
    Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
  • Almost all Africans brought over were __.
    slaves
  • Ancient civilization that occupied the western side of South America; built large architectural works and cities with networks of roads
    Inca
  • What Christopher Columbus called the natives because he thought he had found the Indies
    Indians
  • Give one example of a Native American tribe who lived in the Southeast.
    Cherokee, Seminole, Creek
  • Give one example of a Native American tribe from the Southwest Region.
    Pueblo, Apache, Hopi, Navajo
  • The first permanent English colony in the New World
    Jamestown
  • Native American groups that settled in frigid regions, constructed igloos, and hunted animals like caribou
    Arctic and Subarctic
  • The Frenchman who claimed the Mississippi River for France
    Robert de La Salle
  • The winter of 1609-1610 was called because of terrible famine
    "starving time"
  • The Frenchman who explored the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes Region, founded the city of Quebec
    Samuel de Champlain
  • What the mound builders used their mounds of earth for
    tombs or religious ceremonies
  • A famous Sea Dog, plundered Spanish ports, called "master thief" and "dragon" by the Spanish
    Sir Francis Drake
  • Present-day Mexico and Central America
    Mesoamerica
  • symbolic poles carved from large trees to depict family history, local legends, and important events
    totem poles
  • a dried clay and straw mixture used to construct houses
    adobe
  • Native American groups that lived on prairies and in tepees, hunted bison
    Great Plains
  • Native American groups who lived in the East from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, lived in wigwams
    Eastern Woodlands
  • The daughter of the Powhatan chief who helped the colonists through difficult months
    Pocahontas
  • Francisco Coronado was the first European to see what in America?
    Grand Canyon
  • From what country did Christopher Columbus gain support for his journey to the Indies?
    Spain
  • Give one example of a Native American tribe that lived in the Eastern Woodlands.
    Algonquian, Huron, Iroquois
  • The new governor of Jamestown after Smith left for England
    Lord De La Warr
  • The name of the Lost Colony
    Roanoke
  • Native American belief that all natural objects, whether inanimate or animate, have souls
    animism
  • This African man was considered the wealthiest man to ever live
    Mansa Musa
  • Give one example of the Native Americans who lived in the Arctic and Subarctic Regions.
    Inuit
  • The journey of African slaves in chains across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
    "Middle Passage"
  • The Englishman who laid claim to the Atlantic coast of North America
    John Cabot
  • Individuals who agreed to work for someone for a few years in exchange for transportation across the Atlantic; the first Africans to arrive in America
    indentured servants
  • Native American groups that were nomadic hunter-gatherers, lived near the Rocky Mts, and drew petroglyphs on the side of rocks
    Great Basin and Plateau
  • Native American groups that built houses from cedar, lived along oceans and rivers, carved totem poles
    Northwest Coast
  • The Spaniard who hoped to find riches in North America, explored in Florida, and discovered the Mississippi River
    Hernando de Soto
  • An island Christopher Columbus went ashore to and named himself
    San Salvador
  • Ancient civilization that occupied what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala; built temples and step pyramids
    Maya
  • snow and ice block houses tribes like the Inuits constructed
    igloos
  • The three ships Columbus sailed with
    Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
  • Name four of the seven reasons for colonization by the English
    Land, Political Freedom, Personal Riches, Adventure, English Dominance, National Wealth, Religious Freedom
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