| A | B |
| They were famous for their League of Five Nations and Society of False Faces. | Iroquois |
| They lived in Peru and built thousands of miles of roads over rocky land for protection. | Inca |
| They used special rooms called kivas for religious ceremonies and believed in spirits called kachinas. | Pueblo |
| They were warlike and practiced human sacrifices to please their gods. | Aztec |
| They believed in the “Great Spirit of Manitou” and memory scrolls. | Algonquin |
| It was the special name for corn, beans, and squash. | Three Sisters |
| All the Native Americans grew it for food. | maize |
| They used quipu as a special way of writing by arranging knotted and colored strings. | Inca |
| He sailed for England as privateer. He explored the western coast of North America and circumnavigated the globe. | Drake |
| They shut down the land routes to the Far East. | Turks |
| He started a navigational school even though he was never an explorer. | Prince Henry of Portugal |
| He was a Portuguese explorer who sailed south around the tip of Africa to India. | Vasco da Gama |
| He was an Italian who sailed for Spain and discovered the “New World” in 1492. | Columbus |
| He was an Italian who sailed for England and discovered Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. | Cabot |
| He discovered the Grand Banks, rich fishing banks off the coast of Newfoundland. | Cabot |
| A German mapmaker drew a world map naming the New World after him. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| A Spanish explorer searched for the “fountain of youth,” but found Florida instead. | Ponce de León |
| This Spanish explorer was ruthless and cruel. He conquered the Aztec of Mexico. | Cortes |
| He was the first European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean. | Balboa |
| This Spanish explorer conquered the Inca Empire in Peru. | Pizarro |
| This Portuguese explorer tried to circumnavigate the world but was killed in the Philippine Islands. | Magellan |
| He sailed for both the English and the Dutch in search for a Northwest Passage through North America. | Hudson |
| He was an Italian explorer, sailed for France along the Atlantic Coast of North America. | Verrazano |
| A French explorer explored the St. Lawrence region of Canada. | Cartier |
| This Spanish explorer discovered the Mississippi River flowed south into the Gulf of Mexico. | De Soto |
| This Spanish explorer traveled in the Southwest and discovered the Grand Canyon. | Coronado |
| This was an agreement that split the world in two between Spain and Portugal. | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| This was an important navigational tool in the 15th century. | astrolabe |