Important Dates
The date when an Italian navigator rediscovered the Americas
What is October 12th, 1492?
Italian navigator known for mistakenly landing in the Americas, rediscovering them
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Mountain range where the Inca empire was located
What are the Andes Mountains?
The practice that started in the 15th century of capturing Africans and selling them to people in different continents
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? What is slave trafficking?
The reasons behind most conquistadors' travels to the Americas
What are gold, god, and glory?
The year that the first permanent English settlement was founded
What is 1607 CE?
Spanish conquistador known for conquering the Aztec Empire
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Area where there was a land bridge that connected Asia to North America during the Ice Age
What is the Bering Strait?
System in the Spanish colonies wherein colonists are gifted a piece of land, and all of the natives on that land.
What is the encomienda system?
These people traveled across the Atlantic, and landed in modern day Newfoundland around 1000 CE
Who are the Norse/Scandavians?
The year that the Aztec Empire fell
What is 1521 CE?
Portuguese navigator who is known for sailing around the world (although he died and his crew actually finished the trip)
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
2 major islands in the Caribbean discovered in 1492 by the Spanish
What are Hispaniola and Cuba?
The general religion that most Native Americans followed
What is animism?
The main cause for the fall of the native american tribes in the 14th to 16th centuries
What is disease?
The year Portugal began travelling further south in Africa
What is 1450 CE?
Conquistador who was Governor of Cuba and known for his brutality to Natives
Who was Hernando de Soto?
Land discovered by Portugal after the invention of the Caravel
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
Tribes known for utilizing the system of agriculture known as three sister farming
Who are the Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw?
Legal agreement between Portugal and Spain that divided the New World between them
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The year(s) that the Incan Empire fell
What is 1532-33 CE?
Aztec translator who spoke Mayan and Nauhatl
Who is Malinche?
Land mostly left alone, until 1769, when missionaries arrived.
What is California?
For the most part, Native tribes typically lived in these prior to European contact
What is small scattered settlements?
The type of society the Iroquois tribe followed
What is matrilineal society?