Transcript Jeopardy Template

Major Vocab
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The name of the Ice Age Land bridge
that may have brought the first
inhabitants over from Asia.
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Beringia
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The name for the region that
includes much of Mexico and Central
America. This is where the
agricultural revolution took place,
leading to the first civilizations in
the Americas.
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Mesoamerica
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The top three motivating factors for
exploration of the Americas.
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God, Glory, and Gold
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The term given to the learning of farming
methods that happened between 9,000 and
10,000 years ago in the Americas is called
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The agricultural revolution
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-Interactions between Native Americans and
Europeans led the the sharing of ideas,
livestock, foods, and disease. What is this
called?
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The Columbian Exchange
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This group is talented in engineering and
mathematics. They developed complex
calendars, built temple pyramids, and were
experienced traders.
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The Maya
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The Mississippian cultures built a great city
which covered 5 square miles with hundreds of
flat topped pyramids. The remains are 8 miles
from St. Louis Missouri. What is its name?
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-Cahokia
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Five nations bound together, maintaining an
alliance to fight their rivals. They were the
Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and
Mohawk. They created the alliance to be able
to stop their own quarrels and fight the Huron
people from whom threat was imminent.
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Iroquois Confederacy
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Great military power that conquered
neighboring cities with their military power.
They controlled trade and demanded payments
from cities they conquered.
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The Aztec
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People of the Northeast (currently known as
New England) who spoke the same language,
built wigwams and longhouses, and practiced
slash-and-burn farming.
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The Algonquian Peoples
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He paid for expeditions and may have set up a
navigation school for mapmakers, astronomers
and ship-builders.
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Prince Henry “The Navigator”
Of Portugal
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Why was Portugal one of the first nations
involved in exploration?
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They are on the Westernmost
edge of Europe and enemies
were to the East.
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The explorer that repeated Columbus’s voyage
and determined that it was not Asia, but a new
land mass that had been found. The land mass
took on his name.
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Amerigo Vespucci
(Spain)
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Who discovered Florida while sailing from
Puerto Rico?
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Juan Ponce de Leon
(Spain)
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He defeated the Aztecs and destroyed their
capital city, the site of present day Mexico
City.
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Hernan Cortes
(Spain)
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English explorer who, in 1609, explored
Northeastern North America including several
waterways that became useful trade routes.
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Henry Hudson
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An Italian that sailed for the English in 1497;
he claimed parts of Canada (we think) for
England, thinking he had found a route to Asia.
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John Cabot
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French explorer that founded Quebec, the
capital of what became New France, in 1608.
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Samuel de Champlain
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Led an expedition through Florida and parts of
NC, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas.
They raided villages of the natives for
supplies.
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Hernando de Soto
(Spain)
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Explorer that likely landed San Salvador,
incorrectly identified the people, eventually
enslaved natives, disappointed colonists with
false promises of riches, and forced the
enslaved to mine for gold.
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Christopher Columbus
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Native tribe known for irrigation canals,
pottery, and crops such as corn, cotton, beans,
and squash.
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The Hohokam
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The largest group in the Southeast (where we
live). There were around 20,000 of them in 60
towns across this area.
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The Cherokee
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Spanish word given to large multistory
buildings of the Anisazi.
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Pueblos
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The general name given to groups on the
Westernmost border of America. They built
canoes, homes, and totem poles, relying on the
dense forests of that area.
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The Pacific Coast groups
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Native group from the Great Plains that
became skilled on horseback after the
introduction of the horse by Europeans.
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Sioux
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