Vocabulary
Perspective
Someone's point of view on something
What is a Native American
someone who is indigenous to North or South America
What is an explorer
Someone who sailed around the world to “discover” new places for European countries.
True or false: there are over 500 different Native American tribes today.
True
old world
What does Indigenous mean
people that belong to an area before colonization
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Christopher Columbus was an explorer sailed to the Americas with a lot of $$ from Spain in hopes of finding better trade routes to Asia and is credited for "discovering" America
When was the age of exploration
1400's to the 1700s
New world
Places unfamiliar to Europeans; North and South America
What is a tribe?
A specific community of Native Americans with a shared culture
What was Columbus's perspective on the Native Americans.
He though that they would make good slaves and could be easily converted to Christianity.
He thought Europeans were better because he thought their weapons were more advanced.
Explain why many different native tribes are different from one and other
because they have different resources and environments.
Communicable Disease and give an example
A disease that spreads from person to person
What are hunter gatherers
People who lived in communities where food was obtained by hunting and foraging instead of farming
What are the three reasons explores wanted to find new places. (explain each reason)
God: to spread their faith to other people
Gold: to make money from new resources
Glory: to get famous
Explain how the Columbian Exchange affected Native American.
90% of them were whipped out by disease.
Some of the were enslaved.
Columbian Exchange
A trend set by Christopher Columbus where the new world and old world were constantly exchanging things with each other
How did people originally get to North and South America?
Humans arrived in North+South America about 20,000 years ago from Asia via a land bridge.
Why does Christopher Columbus matter?
When he found the Americas it created a widespread trend of explores coming to North and South America to get their resources. AKA started the Columbian exchange.
How did the Columbian Exchange shape the world today.
- trade between countries
-small native population