Native American Societies Before European Contact
This crop allowed Native American societies to remain settled with a constant food source.
What is maize/corn?
This nation was the first to lay claim to the New World.
What is Spain?
The transfer of flora, fauna, pathogens, and ideas between the Old World and New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Spanish conquistador Cortes famously conquered this group of people.
Who are the Aztecs?
Columbus and early conquistadores set the long-term precedent of forcibly assimilating Native Americans into this religion.
What is Catholicism?
This tribe lived in Illinois, near the Mississippi River.
Who are the Cahokia tribe?
This country had the least significant presence in the Western Hemisphere during the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is England?
The three main reasons for Spanish exploration in the Americas.
What are Gold, glory, and gold?
Native Americans were viewed as only a source of labor under this Spanish labor system.
What is the encomienda system?
This native tribe was encountered by English settlers and is best known for its highly evolved system of government.
What is the Iriquois?
This region was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs.
What are The Great Plains?
The Portuguese under the direction of Henry the Navigator developed this type of ship made specifically for long voyages.
What is the caravel?
European explorers introduced this disease into the New World
What is smallpox?
Spanish Conquistador Pizarro conquered this group of people.
Who are the Inca?
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in West Africa looking for this precious metal.
What is gold?
American Indian peoples who lived in present-day New Mexico and Arizona and built permanent multi-story adobe dwellings.
What are Pueblo Indians?
Investors who pool their money together in order to establish a colony.
What are joint stock investors?
The last leg of the Trans-Atlantic trade route; many enslaved Africans died during this part of the journey which could take months.
What is the middle passage?
In New Spain (the Spanish colonies in the Americas), the Spanish developed a strict social hierarchy for the growing and complex population called this.
What is the caste/casta system?
An economic system based on government regulation that controlled colonial commerce and manufacturing for the enrichment of the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
A large and powerful confederation of Algonquin-speaking American Indians in Virginia.
Who are the Powhatan?
The first group to "accidentally" discover the "New World" before it was "accidentally" discovered by Columbus.
Who are the Norse Seafarers from Scandinavia?
This treaty, signed in 1493, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This missionary famously protested the treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish as subhuman and expendable.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
15th and 16th-century Spanish exploration and conquest created a racially mixed culture known as this.
What is Mestizo?