early Americas

a long journey involving travel by sea or in space

• Columbian Exchange

• coat-of-arms

• Tainos

• voyage

Columbian Exchange

• someone who explores an unfamiliar area; an adventurer

• a long journey involving travel by sea or in space

• people who lived on the land discovered by Christopher Columbus, and were killed and forced into slaves by Christopher Columbus’s people

• the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa and the Old World during the 15th and 16th centuries

What are three reasons colonists came to America?

• freedom

• freedom of religion

• better economic opportunity

• high taxes

Between North America and Asia there is a body of water called the Bering _________.

• isthmus

• strait

• ocean

• river

What word means: a narrow area of water joining two larger areas of water?

• strait

• stream

• ocean

• river

What ocean is between North and South America and Africa?

• Pacific Ocean

• Southern Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

What ocean is between Asia and North and South America?

• Indian Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

What word means: a new area where a group of people decide to live?

• isthmus

• settlement

• house

• strait

There is an __________ that connects North America and South America.

• strait

• settlement

• isthmus

• ocean

a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination

• voyage

• route

• portrait

• myth