Southern Colonies & Colonial Life
New England & Middle Colonies
Ancient & Medieval Worlds
Age of Exploration
Ideas, Inventions & Culture
100

This was the main cash crop of the Southern Colonies.

Tobacco

100

The main economy of the New England Colonies due to thin, rocky soil

shipbuilding and fishin

100

Geographic feature essential to the survival of Ancient

Nile River

100

The 3 G's of exploration

God, Glory, Gold

100

Animal hunted by grassland nomadic tribes.

Buffalo

200

A crop grown specifically to be sold for profit/money.

Cash Crop

200

The nickname given to the Middle Colonies because of their grain production.

Breadbasket Colonies

200

World's first civilization that formed in Mesopotamia.

Sumer

200

Two main valuable goods explorers sought in Asia

Spices and Silk

200

Chinese philosophy teaching harmony with nature, balance, and simplicity

Daoism

300

This system gave land to people who brought their families over to the colonies

Headrights System

300

The colonial region where the Salem Witch Trials took place.

New England Colonies

300

Engineering achievement that carried fresh water into Roman cities.

Aqueducts

300

The explorer that America was named after.

Amerigo Vespucci

300

1450 invention that made books cheap and fast to produce.

Printing Press

400

North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland.

Southern Colonies

400

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

Middle Colonies

400

Medieval system based on trading land and food for protection.

Fuedalism

400

Movement of plants, animals, and diseases between Old & New Worlds.

Columbian Exchange

400

German monk who questioned Catholic Church rules and sparked the Reformation.

Martin Luther

500

Jamestown's first representative government.

House of Burgesses

500

Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire

New England Colonies

500

1215 document creating the rule that nobody is above the law.

Magna Carta

500

The 3 main European countries claiming land in the Americas.

Spain, France, England

500

Major factor alongside conflict that drastically reduced Native populations.

Disease

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