"Exploration & Discovery: Three Worlds Meet"

Innovation which allowed the ship to sail against the wind and on a zigzag course

Main Aztec city that was destroyed by Spanish and upon the city’s ruins was built Mexico City

Native Americans -civilization flourished in Guatemala and Yucatan Peninsula from 250 to 900 AD

Native Americans -lived mesa tops, cliff sides, canyon bottoms of 4 Corners region AD 100-1300

Ships used by Portuguese & Spanish explorers-Had smaller decks, sternpost rudder, shallow draft

Period of European history - 1400 to 1600 -Renewed interest in classical culture, art, learning

Spanish Explorer who destroyed the Aztec people

Most famous King of Mali - Ruled in 1300's - Expanded Mali and role of Islam in the country

Native Americas-around 1400 AD created empire reaching 2,500 miles on west coast South America

This cartographer’s system of latitude and longitude from the A.D. 100’s is still used today

Genoese sailor who wanted to found a route to Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean.

A social ordering by rank or class

Household made up of a mother, a father, and their children

Aztec Emperor that was defeated by the Spanish

Native American group - lived in the valleys of Salt and Gila rivers about 300 BC to 1400 AD

Mississippian Mound Builders-Monk's Mound largest of 120 mounds-Wealthy corn traders

An empire that, at the height of its power in the 1500s, controlled much of West Africa

Most important Renaissance geographer– created map using improved lines of longitude & latitude

Native Americans-Built villages in forest clearings-blended agriculture w/ hunting & gathering

Founder of Quebec, capital of the colony of New France

A navigational device used to tell latitude / distance north or south of the equator

Pope who divided the world giving Spain everything west and Portugal everything east

First Explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa

Explorer who found a water route from Portugal to Eastern Asia by going around Africa

Explorer for which America gets her name

First European Explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean

Explorer who sought for the Fountain of Youth, but instead found Florida

King of Spain who financed Columbus’ journeys of exploration

Explorer who searched for the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola

Farming technique- Allowed Natives to harvest three crops–beans, corn, squash – from one field

Religious movement -16^th Century Europe-Reform of Catholic Church-lead to start of Protestants

A Christian religion lead by the Pope in Rome

Portuguese Navigator-Sent ships to explore west coast of Africa-Started a school of Navigation

Explorer whose crew became the first people to circumnavigate the globe

No fixed home, moving from place to place based on seasons & availability of food & water

Native American people - inhabited coastal marshlands of California; thought a boat was a bird

The land bridge between Asia and North America that existed during the Ice Age

Explorer who tried to find the Northwest Passage

Spanish Explorer who plundered the Inca Empire

A group of people descended from a common ancestor

Native Americans in Caribbean Islands - First group encountered by Columbus

Native American-northwest coastal region-Collected shellfish-hunted for whale, seal, sea otter

1494 arrangement - Spain & Portugal agreed to divide lands of Western Hemisphere between them

A religion founded in Arabia in 622 by the prophet Muhammad

Native American peoples —descendants of the Anasazi —inhabiting the deserts of the Southwest

Native American people - 1200 to 400 BC; civilization in humid rain forest of Gulf Coast

Establishment of outlying settlements by a parent country

Most complex Mound Builder society - Ohio and Mississippi valleys from about 700 to 1500 AD

Large farm - slaves are used to grow a single crop, such as sugar cane, rice, or cotton

The ties between members of a family

Christian military expeditions in Holy Land - 1096 AD to 1270 AD, intended to drive out Muslims

Transfer of plants, animals, & diseases between Western Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere

Explorer who was the first to follow the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico

First known map to label “America” – known as America’s “Birth Certificate”

Native American empire in Valley of Mexico - 1200s AD ; eventually overtaken by Spanish -Cortes

Pueblo religious leader who organized an uprising in 1680 against the Spanish missions

The assignment of different tasks and responsibilities to different groups or individuals

A navigational device used to orient oneself according to the cardinal directions