8 HISTORY vocab 1-2 Word Scramble
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| Beringia | Land bridge between North America and Asia used by early people to walk to North America. |
| Columbian Exchange | The movement and trading of goods, ideas, people and diseases that altered life on both sides of the Atlantic. |
| Nomads | People that move from place to place with no permanent home. |
| God, Glory, Gold | The three (3) G's that signify the reasons form European exploration. |
| Farming | The discovery of this allowed Native Americans to settle down in one place and develop cultural communities. |
| Mercantilism | The theory that a nation's power depends on its wealth (money). |
| Northwest Passage | Water route through North America that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. (DOES NOT EXIST) |
| Iroquois | A powerful group of Native Americans in the eastern part of the United States (New York) that was made up of five different nations. |
| Conquistador | An explorer looking to conquer land in the Americas. |
| England | One of the five major countries that sent explorers to the Americans in the 1500s. (Other name is Britain/United Kingdom) |
| Longhouse | A type of wooden house used by the Eastern Native Americans. |
| Adobe | A type of dried mud brick used by the Native Americans of the Southwest. |
| Igloo | A type of ice and snow house used by the Native Americans of the North. |
| Teepee | A type of house used by the Native Americans of the Plains that made use of animal hides. |
| Hunted | The early Native Americans _________ large mammals such as mammoths and smaller mammals such as deer. |
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