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Native Americans possibly crossed this former land bridge from Asia to the Americas
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Straits of Magellan
Strait of Gibraltar
Bering Strait
Atlantic Causeway
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The group of Indians that were noted for forming peaceful confederations (such as the Iroquois League of Five Nations)
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Great Basin Indians
West Coast Indians (California and Pacific Northwest)
Plateau Indians
Great Plains Indians
Southwest Indians
Northeast Woodland Indians (Northeast and Southeast)
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Native Americans possibly crossed this former land bridge from Asia to the Americas
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The group of Indians that were noted for forming peaceful confederations (such as the Iroquois League of Five Nations)
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Structure made by Woodland Nations; made of earth and filled with weapons, pottery, and jewelry
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a dried clay-and-straw mixture home
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Great Basin and Plateau Indians sometimes lived in lodges of logs and earth called . . .
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The group of Native Americans who built totem poles
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Carved from large trees and depicted local legends and important events.
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Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
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wandering, moving about from place to place
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the Native Americans who lived in the flat parts of the western United States between the Mississippi River and the Rockies; skilled horsemen who hunted bison; lived a nomadic life; dwelled in tipis
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TRUE/FALSE: Many Native American nations have stories of the creation of the world that sound similar to the biblical account of creation.
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Were probably the first to discover America, They visited North America in 1000 AD but never shared their discovery with others
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Vikings are also known as . . .
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The viking who found a new land and called it Vinland
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He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to the Indies; he never realized that he had discovered a New World.
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The Spanish monarchs who supported Columbus's voyage
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Columbus wanted to go to the West Indies for this specialty product
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Match the Spanish explorer with his description:
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Term meaning "conqueror"; descriptive of some Spanish explorers
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Englishexplorer who claimed Newfoundland in 1497 for England while looking for the Northwest Passage
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Nickname for English sea captains authorized to raid Spanish ships and towns
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first Englishman to sail around the world
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Queen of England who unofficially fought with Spain to keep control of England
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Match the French explorer with his description:
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French Protestants who had to flee France because of religious persecution
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Founder of England's first American colony. (Roanoke, it failed)
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The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia
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English explorer who is considered responsible for helping the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, survive; told men that if they did not work they could not eat;
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Winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown was called this because the mosquitoes and poor work ethic of some of the men led to many deaths due to starvation and disease:
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Elected assembly in colonial Virginia, created in 1618; first representative government in the new world
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The nation that came to North America mostly for the fur trade, allowed only Catholic settlers, came mostly as single men, and inhabited Canada and the Mississippi River valley
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The most profitable crop for Jamestown settlers; introduced by John Rolfe