| A | B |
|---|
| migration | to move from place to place |
| Bering Strait land Bridge | allowed for people to cross from Siberia to Alaska long ago |
| Native Americans | name given to the first Americans |
| Indians | name given to Native Americans by Columbus, as he thought he was in the East Indies |
| hunting and gathering | a method used to survive by early Native Americans |
| Resources and Climate | lifestyles were different because of these |
| 29 million | number of Native Americans living in the Western Hemisphere in 1492 |
| Mayans | lived in Mexico and Guatemala |
| Aztecs | lived in Central Mexico |
| Incas | lived in the Andes Mountains in South America |
| Mayan achievements | developed the use of zero and predicted eclipses |
| Aztec achievements | powerful people, created a large empire, used pictographs |
| Inca achievements | built canals and terraces to improve farming |
| Northeastern Woodland Indians | lived in large villages, grew plants for food, included the Iroquois |
| Great Plains Indians | were nomadic, depended upon the buffalo for survival |
| Southwest Indians | built adobe building into cliffs, included the Navajo and Apache |
| Pacific Northwest Indians | fished for salmon, grew plants, carved totem poles |
| Prince Henry of Portugal | opened a school for navigation and map making |
| Christopher Columbus | sialed for Spain, looking for East Indies discovered the "New World" |
| Ferdinand Magellan | After three years at sea his voyages proved the world was round |
