European Colonization
Identify one motive for European exploration & colonization of the America's.
What is God, Glory, and Gold.
A Spanish word that means "conqueror". It refers to the 16th-century Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and explorers who took over large parts of the Americas
What is conquistador?
This term describes the widespread exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and goods between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres following Columbus’s voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These Indigenous societies adapted to the dry environment, relying on hunting, gathering, agriculture, and later the horse for survival.
What are Native American Societies of the Great Basin & Great Plains?
This city is home to the Liberty Bell and was the first capital of the United States.
What is Philadelphia?
Identify one technological advancement that allowed for European exploration of the America's.
What are: caravel ship, compass, astrolabe, improved maps.
This Spanish royal couple sponsored Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage after completing the Reconquista and hoping to expand Spanish wealth and Christianity.
Who are Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II?
This labor system forced many Indigenous people to work for Spanish colonists in exchange for supposed protection and Christian instruction.
What is the Encomienda System?
These Indigenous societies developed complex agricultural communities, building large earthen mounds and establishing extensive trade networks before European contact.
What are Native American Societies of the Mississippi River Valley?
This U.S. state is shaped like a mitten and is surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes.
What is Michigan?
This European power established colonies in Florida, Mexico, and much of South and Central America while searching for gold and silver.
Who are the Spanish?
This Spanish conquistador defeated the Aztec Empire in the early 1500s.
Who is Cortes?
This important crop was domesticated by Indigenous peoples in the Americas and became one of the major foods introduced to Europeans through the Columbian Exchange.
What is corn/maize?
These Indigenous societies adapted to the arid environment by developing irrigation systems, growing maize, and building permanent adobe and stone settlements such as pueblos.
What are Native American Societies of the Southwest?
This U.S. state is the only state that borders both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
This European power established Jamestown in 1607, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Who are the English?
Spanish priest and historian criticized the mistreatment and exploitation of Indigenous peoples by Spanish colonizers and advocated for their rights.
Who is de Las Casas?
These were brought to the Americas by Europeans and caused devastating population declines among Indigenous peoples who had little immunity to them.
What are diseases?
This powerful Mesoamerican empire, centered at Tenochtitlan, was conquered by Hernán Cortés and his Spanish forces in the early 1500s.
Who are the Aztecs?
This animal was named the national mammal of the United States in 2016.
What is the buffalo/bison?
This European power established settlements along the St. Lawrence River and became heavily involved in the fur trade.
Who are the French?
This Portuguese royal prince sponsored voyages along the coast of Africa, helping advance European exploration and navigation during the Age of Exploration.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This religious movement weakened the Catholic Church’s religious unity in Europe and encouraged some Protestant nations, such as England, to compete with Catholic Spain for territory and influence in the Americas.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This powerful South American civilization built a vast empire along the Andes Mountains, connected by an extensive road system, before being conquered by Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro.
Who are the Incas?
This U.S. state has the nickname “The Last Frontier” and is the largest state by area.
What is Alaska?