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| How many years of recorded western history are there? |
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| What was the first land mass to rise above sea level? |
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| 2 million years ago -->10,000 years ago |
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| The Great Salt Lake is all that is left of this river |
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| What was the land bridge from Asia called? |
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| What did maize for hunter-gatherer societies? |
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| made them into settled agricultural villages |
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| What is one reason that the N.A.s were so easily subdued by the Europeans? |
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| Populations not very dense |
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| What is the term for the N.A.s growing beans, corn, and squash? |
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| Who was the leader of a N.A. family? |
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| What did the N.A.s sometimes do to help w/ hunting? |
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| What N.A. tribe had a sophisticated military alliance that made an approximation of the nation state of Mexico? |
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| Who was the leader of the Iroquois? |
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| These people designed this special kind of ship to deal with harsh African winds |
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NAME THAT PERSON:
Bartholomeu Dias |
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| Reached the tip of Africa |
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Vasco Da Gama |
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| What two elements helped propel explorations? |
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| Renaissance optimism, compasses |
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| What plant did Europeans especially use from the New World |
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| What did N.A.s very much like from the Europeans? |
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| What plant did Europeans bring to the New World? |
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NAME THAT PERSON:
Vasco Nunez Balboa |
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| Discovered the Pacific Ocean |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
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| Made first circumnavigation |
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Juan Ponce de Leon |
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Coronado |
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| Saw Grand Canyon, lots of buffalo. Wanted gold, got adobe |
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Hernado de Soto |
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| wanted gold, tortured natives |
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Francisco Pizarro |
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| crushed the incas, got silver fromm Potosi |
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| Where was the "laboratory" for military techniques for the Europeans? |
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| Who was the "traitor"/translator for Hernan Cortes? |
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| How did Cortes beat the Aztecs? |
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-Got Indian tribes that were mad at Aztecs
-Burned ships
-Moctezuma let him in thinking he was Quetzalcoatl
-Fight on noche triste |
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| Who did the English send over to the new world? |
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| Who did the French send to the new world? |
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| Jaques Cartier and Verrazano |
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Don Juan de Onate |
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-journeyed further into America
-cut off foot of everyone in Battle of Acorna |
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| What is the name of the rebellion in which Pueblo rebels destroyed Catholic churches, killed Spanish settlers, and built a kiva? |
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NAME THAT PERSON:
Cabrillo |
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| Came to CA, didn't see much |
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| What was the myth (well, it wasn't really a myth) that all Europeans came and gave all of the N.A.s smallpox and enslaved them? |
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