Across
- 5. Native Americans believed everything, even rocks, had this
- 6. traveled explorers who travelled the Mississippi River and were often fur trappers who traded with the Natives
- 8. This uncontrollable daily event greatly affected early colonists' shelter, food, and sailing.
- 9. Spanish explorers, soldier-adventurers, who wanted to conquer the New World.
- 11. Native Americans believed no one could own this
- 12. explorers such as Cabot who led the way to later settlements on the East Coast.
- 13. many explorers traveled for this and for fame and riches
- 15. the exchange of goods and ideas between the New and the Old World
- 17. the land Columbus was looking for
- 18. Copying work that is not your own without giving credit to the author
- 20. the people who lived in the Americas for thousands of years and flourished until Europeans invaded.
- 21. source resources compiled for better understanding, such as a textbook.
- 22. a first-hand account or artifact from the time, such as a diary or arrowhead
- 23. because of disease, starvation, getting lost and the unknown, life for early explorers was this
Down
- 1. Europeans wanted to convert Native Americans to this belief
- 2. an early navigation instrument used to determine the angle between the horizon and a celestial body like the Sun, Moon, or Star. I
- 3. Smallpox and typhoid for example, this killed many Natives, especially when Europeans gave the Natives contaminated blankets
- 4. this instrument helped ships maintain course by determining latitude
- 7. When a country sends settlers to another place and takes control over it
- 10. early explorers, conquistadors, who conquered Natives in South and Central America looking for gold, riches, and slaves
- 14. primary and secondary sources can only be trusted based on the evidence
- 16. the location of the land bridge that was glacier 20-30,000 years ago and is now sea
- 19. How scientists believe the first people came from Asia to the Americas 20-30,000 years ago