| A | B |
|---|
| Bering Land Bridge | Paleo-Indians crossed into Alaska |
| How was the Bering Land bridge formed | ice age caused water level to drop |
| Paleo-Indians | people who came from Asia into the Americas |
| Migration | movement of people or animals from one region to another |
| Hunter-gatherers | people who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food |
| Nomads | a person with no home, they roam to find food and shelter |
| culture | a group'd set of common values and traditions, language,government and family |
| Olmec | earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica |
| Olmec's contributions | stone architecture, pyramids, sculpture |
| Maya's contributions | maize, crops, pyramids, temples, palaces, bridges |
| Aztec contributions | warriors, city of Tenochtitlan |
| Incan contributions | government, language, records, block buildings,paved roads |
| Specialization of Labor | workers repeat a single-step again and again |
| Anasazi | developed adobe |
| pueblos | aboveground houses made of heavy clay called adobe |
| Totem Poles | ancester or animal spirits in tall wooden poles |
| Teepee | cone-shaped shelters |
| Iroquois League | a confederation established by the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onandaga, and Seneca |
| Feudalism | a system of promises between lords and vassels that seperated territories and people |
| Crusades | series of wars between Christians and Muslims |
| Caravel | ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind |
| astrolabe | device that allowed navigators to use stars to determine their location |
| Christopher Columbus | sailor from Italy, sent by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to travel across the Atlantic |
| Columbian Exchange | transfer of plants and animals between Europe and America |
| Triangular trade | gooda and slaves were traded among Americas, Britain, and Africa |
| Ferdinand Magellan | portugese navigator killed in the Phillipines |
| Conquistadors | soldiers who led military expediations in the Americas |
| Hernando Cortez | sailed from Cuba to present day Mexico |
| smallpox | disease brought by Spain that brough about the fall of the Aztec Empire |
| Francisco Pizarro | conquistador who captured the Incan capitol |
| Northwest Passage | a water route through North America that allowed ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
| Spanish Settlements | focus on Central America |
| English settlements | Virginia and North Carolina |
| French settlements | Florida |
| Dutch settlements | land between the Delaware and Hudson Rivers |
