Pre-Columbus America
This land bridge provided the opportunity for the Americas to be populated from 35,000-10,000 years ago.
What is the Bering Strait or Bering Isthmus?
This European country was the first to discover and colonize the Americas.
What is Spain?
These “conquerors” flocked to the New world in the 16th century in order to make money, spread religion and win recognition.
Who are the "Spanish Conquistadores"?
This is the first successful English Colony in America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
Countries use this tax to make money from imports into their country.
What are tariffs?
The end of this age led to the end of migration from Asia into the Americas.
The Portuguese invented this type of ship that allowed them to sail against the wind helping them establish a trade route to Asia by rounding the coast of Africa.
What is the caravel?
They are a mix of Spanish Caucasians and Native Indians.
Who are Mestizos?
This is the company chartered by King James I that set up the first English colony in North America.
What is Virginia Company of London?
This economic policy was based on the principle that the world's wealth was static, and consequently, governments had to regulate trade to build their wealth and national power.
What is Mercantilism?
This is the staple crop for all of the Americas.
This is the practice of process of establishing control over targeted territories or peoples for the purpose of taxation, control and cultivation.
What is Colonization?
Spanish born Caucasians that were the top of the Spanish Colonial Casta system.
Who are Peninsulares?
This is an aspect of charter companies that help mitigate the risk by allowing several individuals to own it instead of just one and one family.
What is Joint-stock?
This economic catastrophe contributed to an increase of poverty in England which caused an increase of English colonization in North America.
What is a depression?
Farming technique where beans, corn and squash are cultivated together in order for them to mutually benefit one another's growth.
What is Three-Sister farming?
This period of European history was known as a period of "rebirth" and it gave Europeans confidence and desire to explore.
What is the Renaissance?
This is the concept of demanding tribute and forced labour from the Native Americas in exchange for the promise of Christianizing them.
What is Encomienda?
The TWO biggest causes of the death of most of the Native Indian population.
What is war and disease?
This product was introduced to the New World and became the major crop produced in the West Indies.
What is sugar?
This is the lifestyle of Native Indians where they didn't believe in owning or settling on a piece of land and, as result, moved around.
What is nomadic?
This navigation tool helped identify the location of a ship which helped make the European Age of Exploration possible.
What is the Astrolabe?
The lowest of Spanish colonial casta system and it means people who are mix of Black and Native Indians.
Who are Zambos?
English law that causes younger sons to seek other employment contributing to Englishmen colonizing North America.
What is Primogeniture?
This product found in the New World caused the inflation which collapsed the economy of China.
What is Silver?