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Native American and Explorers Notes Unit
Social Studies~ Team 6 ~ Miss Springborn
Name ______
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Due on ______
Test on ______
Use your textbook, Call to Freedom, to answer the following questions…
Chapter 1-The World Before the Opening of the Atlantic
Chapter 1, Section 1, Pages 4-9 The Earliest Americans
1. What does the word migration mean?
2. Why did the first Paleo-Indians cross the Bering straight?
Using the map at the bottom of page 5
3. Where did the Paleo- Indians come from?
4. How do people get to America TODAY?
5. Read the Connecting to Science and Technology Section and tell me how scientists use carbon 14 to determine the age of artifacts…
6. What are some of the inventions of the Mayan Civilization?
7. What city was at the center of the Aztec Civilization?
8. Where was the Inca Civilization located?
9. What were some of the advancements of the Inca’s?
Chapter 1, Section2, Pages 10-16 Cultural Areas in North America
1. According to the map on page 11, how many cultural areas are located in North America?
2. How might the geography and climate of an area influence the culture that develops in that location?
3. What were kayaks used for?
4. What was an igloo?
5. Read Connecting to the Arts section on page 13, what was carved into totem poles?
6. In the daily life box on page 15, the author talks about the powerful buffalo of the Great Plains region. What could the Buffalo provide to the community after it was killed?
7. What groups made up the Iroquois League?
Chapter 1, Section 3,Pages 17-22 Europe during the Middle Ages
1. Who was Leif Erickson?
2. When did the Vikings land in the area they called Vinland?
3. Why didn’t they stay in Vinland for very long?
4. In the That’s Interesting box on page 18, Why is strange that the area where the Vikings lived is named Iceland
Take a look at the Vikings trips
Toward the end of the 8th century CE, Viking seafarers from what we now call Norway (A), Denmark (B), and Sweden (C) embarked on a series of daring voyages for trade, colonization, and sometimes even plunder. Over the next 250 years, they planted settlements in Europe — from the British Isles (D) and France (E) to Italy (F) and Russia (G). Vikings from Norway, in particular, became the first Europeans, ever, to establish a passage across the Atlantic to North America. They did it in stages, setting up bases, as they went, in the Shetland Islands (H), Faroe Islands (I), Iceland (J), Greenland (K), and — for just a few years — in the place they called Vinland (L)
WARNING: A Little bit of 6th Grade Reviewed!!!
Still Section 3, Pages 17-22
5. What were the middle Ages like in Europe?
(Think back to 6th GRADE!!)
6. What did the Magna Carta of 1215 say about government?
7. What was the Renaissance? (Think back to 6th GRADE!!)
Chapter 1, Section 4, Pages 23-27 Trade Across Continents
1. What city was the center of trade in today’s Saudi Arabia?
2. How did the Silk Road connect Europe and Asia? (Look at the Global Connections Box, pg 25)
Draw the silk road on the map below….
Chapter 2- The Age of Exploration
Chapter 2, Section 1, Pages 32-37, Europeans Set Sail
1. What is the meaning of the word capitol?
2. Why would a merchant want to create a Joint-Stock Company?
3. What was the astrolabe and how did it help sailors?
4. Why was it so b ad for the merchants of Venice to have a monopoly on the trade between Europe and Asia?
5. Who did Prince Henry help?
Chapter 2, Section 2, Pages 38-43 Voyages to the Americas
1. Who was Christopher Columbus?
2. How did the King and Queen of Spain help Columbus?
3. Where did Columbus land on his FIRST trip to the United States?
4. Why did Pope Alexander VI need to make up the Line of Demarcation?
5. Who was the Treaty of Tordesillas between?
6. How many trips did Columbus take to the new world before his death?
Chapter 2, Section 3, Pages 44-49 Voyages to the Americas
1. Which cape on what continent did Vasco da Gama sail around?
2. How did the Americas end up named AFTER the explorer Amerigo Vespucci????
3. Mark Ferdinand Magellan’s route around the world on the map below…
4. When Magellan sailed around the world, what is the word used to describe what he did to the earth?
Chapter 2, Section 4, Pages 50-53 The Opening of the Atlantic
1. What was the Columbian Exchange?
On the map below, draw arrows to connect the continents involved in the Columbian Exchange…
2. Where was the Northwest Passage located?
3. Which explorers went looking for the Northwest Passage?
Connecting to Geography: The Columbian Exchange
Pages 56-59
LIST / DRAW PICTURES OF…the plants that started in North and South America
the plants/food that started in Asia, Europe,
and Africa…
the animals that were originally found in
North and South America…
the animals that were originally found in Asia,
Europe, and Africa…
Chapter 3- New Empires in the Americas
Chapter 3, Section 1, Pages 66-71 The Conquistadores
1. Define the word Conquistadores…
2. What was Cortez looking for in Mexico? How was he going to take these things?
3. What helped Pizarro and his men conquer the Incas in Peru?
4. What was similar between Cortez’s conquering and Pizarro’s?