Pre-Columbus
Bering Strait Theory
How did the Asiatic nomads come to North America?
54 million
What is disease?
October 12, 1492
What is the date Columbus landed in the Bahamas?
joint stock company that funded the voyage to the New World and established first sustainable colony.
What is the Virginia Company and what is Jamestown?
Corn
What was the main crop for most early Native Americans?
silk, drugs, perfumes, spices
What are goods Europeans sought in Asia?
the caravel
What is the invention that allowed the Portuguese to enter Africa?
God, Glory, Gold
What are the 3 G's that "justified" exploration?
if you don't work you don't eat
What is the rule John Smith implemented in the Jamestown colony that saved them?
Mound Builders, Mississippians, Anaszi
Divided New World between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
slaves and gold
What is the commodity that the Portuguese started to trade for in Africa?
It allowed the government to “commend,” or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to try to Christianize them
What is the encomienda system?
Believed that the Church of England had too much Catholic ritual
Who were the Puritans?
Beans, corn, squash planted together
What is the 3 sister farming method?
1000 A.D. Newfoundland
What is when and where the Norse explored the New World?
gold/silver, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, choc, syphilis
What are the items that the New World sent to the Old World during the Columbian Exchange?
June 30, 1520, the Aztecs attacked, driving the Spanish down the causeways from Tenochtitlán in a frantic, bloody retreat.
what is noche triste or the sad night?
large plantations, slaves, looked down on the poor
What were the southern colonies?
Iroquois Confederacy
Which group grew in size and power that rivaled the Aztecs?
spoke out against inhumane atrocities perpetrated by Columbus and Spanish explorers
Who is Bartolome De Las Casas?
wheat sugar rice coffee horses cows pigs flu typhus diphtheria, scarlet fever, smallpox measles bubonic plague
What are the items that the Old World sent to the New World during the Columbian Exchange?
false concept held that the conquerors merely tortured and butchered the Indians (“killing for Christ”), stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left little but misery behind
What is the Black Legend?
individual liberty, self governance, religious tolerance, economic opportunity
What are the ideals that became synonymous with American life?