Twenty Eight Facts About Native Americans

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Iroquois

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famous for their League of Five Nations and Society of False Faces

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Inca lived

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lived in Peru and built thousands of miles of roads over rocky land for protection

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Pueblo

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used special rooms called kivas for religious ceremonies and believed in spirits called kachinas

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Aztec

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were warlike and practiced human sacrifices to please their gods

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Algonquin

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believed in the great spirit of Manitou and memory scrolls

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Three Sisters

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was the special name for corn, beans and squash

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All Native Americans

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grew maize (corn) for food

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Inca used

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used quipu as a special way of writing by arranging knots in colored strings

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Drake

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sailed for England as a privateer. He explored the western coast of North American and circumnavigated the globe.

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The Turks

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shut down the land routes to the Far East.

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Prince Henry

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of Portugal started a navigational school even though he was never an explorer

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Vasco da Gama

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was a Portugese explorer who sailed south around the tip of Africa to India.

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Columbus

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was an Italian who sailed for Spain and discovered the New World in 1492.

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Cabot

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was an Italian who sailed for England and discovered Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.

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Cabot

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discovered the Grand Banks, rich fishing banks off the coast of Newfoundland.

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A German mapmaker

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drew a world map naming the New World after Amerigo Vespucci.

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Ponce de Leon

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a Spanish Explorer, searched for the fountain of youth but found florida instead.

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Cortes

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the spanish explorer, was ruthless and cruel. He conquered the Aztec of Mexico.

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Balboa

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the first European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean.

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Pizarro

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spanish explorer who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru.

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Magellan

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a Portugese explorer, tried to circumnavigate the world but was killed in the Phillipine islands.

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Hudson

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sailed for both the English and the Dutch in search for a Northwest passage through North America.

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Verrazano

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an Italian explorer, sailed for France along the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Cartier

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a French explorer, explored the St. Lawrence region of Canada.

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DeSoto

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a Spanish explorer, discovered the Mississippi river flowed south into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Coronado

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a Spanish explorer, traveled in the Southwest and discovered the Grand Canyon.

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The Treaty of Tordesillas

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was an agreement that split the world in two between Spain and Portugal.

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The astrolabe

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was an important navigational tool in the 15th century.