US History Fall Unit 1 Review

Vocabulary and key identification review covering early navigation tools, the Land Bridge Theory, the Columbian Exchange, and European explorers for US History Unit 1.

Astrolabe

An instrument used to calculate latitude.

Caravel

A fast-moving boat.

Maize

Early corn.

Circumnavigate

To travel all the way around the world.

Technology

Scientific knowledge.

Artifact

Things left behind by early people.

Culture

A developed way of life.

Land Bridge Theory

The explanation that during the last ice age, large glaciers formed and water levels dropped, allowing animals to walk across a land bridge with humans following them for food before the ice melted.

Columbian Exchange (Americas to Europe)

Items transported from the Americas to Europe, including the potato, turkey, and pumpkin.

Columbian Exchange (Europe to Americas)

Items transported from Europe to the Americas, including the banana, grape, and onion.

Potato

A food crop that the Incas had first.

Ponce De Leon

The first Spanish explorer in North America.

Ferdinand Magellan

An explorer who crossed the Pacific to circumnavigate the globe (resulting in one ship returning back to Spain), encountered giants, and died in the Philippines.

Francisco Pizarro

A Spanish conquistador who sailed to the Pacific with 180 soldiers, captured the Inca ruler, and whose best weapon was disease.

Hernan Cortes

A Spanish conquistador who took over the Aztecs using horses, with his best weapon being disease.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

An explorer who ran from the law, jumped on a ship with a dog, stayed in Panama, and married the chief's daughter.

Christopher Columbus

An explorer born in Germany who wished to sail west to China, sailed to the Americas, and believed he had reached China.

Coronado

An explorer who sought to find the "Seven cities of cibola."