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Just in Caste
100
A key piece of information about Native Americans is that in the 15,000 years before the arrival of Columbus they built societies that were both _________ and _________.
Distinct / diverse / varied
Complex / sophisticated
100
The three major motivations of European exploration and conquest were ...
Wealth / monetary / economic motivation
Political (military / economic) competition
Spreading Christianity / religion
100
A major impact of the Columbian exchange was the decimation of indigenous populations, but to be fair this was less the result of extermination or murder and more as a result of ...
Diseases
100
When looking exploring forced labor options the Spanish implemented the ________________ system which offered as agreeing to slave labor in exchange for protection from the Spanish crown.
Encomienda system
200
Part of the reason the Mexica / Aztec's were able to build as sophisticated of a civilization as they did was because they mastered the cultivation of this food source.
Maize
200
The appropriating or selling of another community's spiritual or cultural items as novelty or every day items for the sake of making a profit.
Commodification
200
What major disease did the Europeans give the Native Americans? What major disease did the Europeans believe they got from the natives?
Small pox and syphilis
200
What were the two main types of work that the Spanish forced upon the Native Americans?
Digging for gold and other precious minerals
Agriculture / farming
300
Native Americans who lived on the Great Basin and Great Plains regions adapted to the challenging arid climate by ...
Being nomadic / mobile / moving around
300
an economic system in which colonizing countries set up colonies in an effort to gain raw materials and cheap labor while selling the colonists finished goods
(colonial) mercantilism
300
What are three items that were exported from North America back to Europe?
gold, tobacco, cotton, molasses, ivory, hardwood / lumber, furs
300
What were the two biggest challenges the Spanish faced with indigenous forced labor that ultimately caused them to switch to importing forced labor from Africa?
Native Americans kept escaping and/or dying.
400
Native Americans who settled near the Mississippi river could build greater towns and cities because the water provided reliable ____________.
Agriculture / farming / crops
400
What were the two big factors that spurred European explorations both pushing them to explore sea trade routes and then to explore the Americas once they found them. (What two things made this exploration more possible)
Improvements in maritime technology
More organized methods for conducting international trade (shifting from feudalism to capitalism)
400
What import from Europe arguably had the most drastic impact on the Native American's daily life?
The importation of horses
400
The name of the Spanish class structure that structured inhabitants of the colonies by race.
The Casta System
500
What was one major cultural difference between most Native Americans and most Europeans?
Family structure: Europeans focused on the nuclear family while native Americans focused more on extended family
Religion: Europeans were monotheistic (one God / Christian) while the Native Americans were polytheistic / nature based Gods
Land: Europeans believed land was something you could own and was to be used up, Native Americans believed in a relationship with the land and that it was something to take care of
500
In 1492 Columbus landed in Guanahani which is located in what modern country?
The Bahamas
500
What were two items traded to African war lords in exchange for enslaved labor?
guns, cloth, iron, beer
500
Here is a picture of the Spanish caste system.
Define 3 out the following 4 ... who were the penninsulares, creoles, mestizos, and mulattoes?
Penninsulares: people with Spanish ancestry born on the Spanish penninsula
Creoles: people with Spanish ancestry born in the colonies
Mestizos: people with mixed Spanish and indigenous ancestry
Mulattoes: people with mixed Spanish and African ancestry