Early America Vocabulary Practice

the land bridge located where the Bering Strait lies today that scientists believe the Native Americans crossed to get from Asia to the Americas

• Pacific Trail
• Alaska Passage
• Beringia
• Siberian Route

a highly developed culture, usually with organized religions and laws

• community
• tribe
• society
• civilization

a period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets

• Glacial Period
• Tropical Era
• Desert Age
• Ice Age

a powerful group of Native Americans in the eastern part of the United States made up of five nations: the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida

• Iroquois Confederacy
• Cherokee Alliance
• Pueblo Confederation
• Sioux Nation

people who move from place to place, usually in search of food or grazing land

• Settlers
• Farmers
• Nomads
• Herders

exchange of goods, ideas, and people between Europe and the Americas

• Transatlantic Trade
• Silk Road Exchange
• Triangle Trade
• Columbian Exchange

word for Spanish explorers in the Americas in the 1500s

• navigators
• conquistadors
• exploradores
• settlers

from another country

• domestic
• local
• foreign
• native

word for a religious settlement

• shrine
• church
• mission

• temple

government ruled by a King or Queen

• democracy
• oligarchy
• dictatorship
• monarchy