Early America and Exploration Vocabulary Crossword

1. Desire for gold, natural resources, and trade; spread of Christianity; competition for empire and superiority
5. Native Americans in the forests of the East who relied on farming for survival and lived in longhouses
9. Ghana, Mali, and Songhai became powerful by controlling trade in this region.
10. Poor maps and navigational tools, disease/starvation, fear of unknown, lack of adequate supplies
12. This Frenchman explored the Mississippi River Valley and claimed the Mississippi for France.
14. The conquistador who searched for gold and claimed the Southwest for Spain.
15. Native Americans who lived in the Southwest and carved homes out of cliff walls
16. European country that traded manufactured goods for gold in West Africa and developed navigational tools
17. This French explorer founded the settlement of Quebec and explored the Great Lakes.
18. Native Americans of the Midwest who lived in teepees and used buffalo as their means of survival
19. One of the oldest archaeological sites in North America, was settled 15,000 years ago,located on the Nottoway river in southern Virginia

2. Native Americans of present-day Alaska who lived in igloos and used fishing and hunting for survival
3. Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest who used wooden homes and totems and fishing for survival
4. An Italian who sailed for England had hoped to find Asia but explored Newfoundland and Canada.
6. A European country that conquered and enslaved Native Americans and brought diseases and Christianity.
7. The study of past human culture through the recovery & analysis of artifacts
8. Exchange of goods and ideas, improved navigational tools, claimed territories
11. Technologies (transportation of weapons and farm tools), trade and crops
13. A European country that established land claims and learned farming from the Native Americans.France
14. Land, competition for trade, disease, and language differences