US History 111 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| People first arrived in North America closest to | 25000 BCE |
| The first Americans most likely arrived in the New World from | Asia by way of a land bridge |
| The European who explored North America around 1000 was | Leif Ericsson |
| The Maya Indians populated the area of | Central America |
| The Portuguese prince who promoted overseas trade in the fifteenth century was | Henry |
| The part of South America claimed by the Portuguese in 1500 was | Brazil |
| Tikal was a great city of the | Maya |
| The great city that existed along the Mississippi River in the years prior to the arrival of the Europeans was | Cahokia |
| Historians call the religious wars that swept across Europe from 1095 to about 1290 the | Crusades |
| Vasco da Gama's significance is that he | established a Portuguese sea route to India |
| Meso-America refers to | Mexico and Central America |
| The people that built large stone heads along the east coast of Mexico around 1200 were the | Olmecs |
| Marco Polo | developed important trade with Asia |
| The African slave trade was started by | Africans |
| When Columbus sailed in 1492 he | established the first permanent European colony in the Americas |
| The pope divided the world in the Treaty of Tordesillas between | Portugal and Spain |
| Christopher Columbus sailed to America for | Spain |
| The first expedition to circumnavigate the globe began under | Ferdinand Magellan |
| The Spice Islands refer to | the eastern Indian Ocean |
| Christopher Columbus set foot on each of the following locations except | North America |
| The Americas got their name from | an Italian banker and merchant |
| Mammoths were the | large animals hunted by early Americans |
| The Aztecs descended from people called the | Chichimecs |
| The founder of the Muslim religion was | Mohammed |
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