Native Americans
What are the three sisters (staple crops)?
Corn, beans and squash
Italian explorer and cartographer. The new world was named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci
Generalized term for soldiers and explorers of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Conquistadores
The reason for founding English settlements in the Americas
Religious upheavals in England
While attempting to prove a westward sea route for East Asian trade existed, he stumbled across the Bahamas in October 1492.
Christopher Columbus
A Spanish conquistador whose expedition conquered the Aztec Empire and brought large swaths of modern-day Mexico under Spanish authority
Hernán Cortés
Led the first European expedition to Florida in 1513, an area which he named. Commonly said to have been hunting for the Fountain of Youth
Juan Ponce de León
The collective name for two joint stock companies that had identical charters but different territorial claims.
Virginia Company
This new ship was able to sail upwind at a better angle. This plus new ideas on where to sail too allowed the Portuguese to go further south.
Caravel
This is the forced labor system imposed by the Spanish on the Native Americans
Encomienda
French explorer. Cultivated a fur trade with American Indians.
Jacques Cartier
In 1513, he led the first overland expedition by Europeans to reach the Pacific,
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Nicknamed “the Lost Colony.” First attempted English colony in the New World.
Roanoke
Resulted in tremendous social, cultural, and political change for both the Europeans and the American Indians
Colombian Exchange
Southwestern group. Extensive irrigation systems; houses were multi-story made of adobe.
Pueblo Indians
Worked tirelessly to prevent the enslavement of all native people in South America
Bartolome de Las Casas
Signed between Spain and Portugal in 1494, it decided how Christopher Columbus’s discoveries of the New World would be divided
Treaty of Tordesailles
The survival of the Jamestown colony can be most directly attributed to this
Tobacco
Large Mississippian settlement near present day Ohio. Home to as many as 30,000 people
Cahokia
A political confederation of six Iroquois tribes
Haudenosaunee OR Great League of Peace
English polymath. Granted permission by Queen Elizabeth I to explore and colonize the New World in exchange for one-fifth of all the gold and silver this venture obtained. Founded Roanoke.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Spain asserted its divine right to conquer the New World, stating that its main concern was to rescue the natives from hedonism.
Spanish Requirement of 1513
The first written Constitution in America
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Spanish explorer that invaded Peru and dominated the Incas in 1532.
Francisco Pizzaro