Important people
who famously said “he that shall not work, shall not eat.”
who is John Smith??
what are the three main things that motivated the settlers
What is the effect of Europeans bringing diseases to the Americas?
there was a significant population decline among native americans, weakening their societies
Marked the beginning of European affiliation.
Columbus’s arrival in the americas (1492)
the capturing and murder of what Native American led to the fall of the Aztec empire?
who is Moctezuma??
What is the name of the system that forced natives into labor?
what is "encomienda system?"
What was the cause of Native American groups, specifically ones in the Great Plains, adapting their hunting practices?
Europeans introducing horses to the Americas
Mysteriously disappeared, shows the early ambitious, and disastrous attempts by the English to establish a permanent foothold in North America.
Failed Roanoke Colony (1587)
who wrote the 95 theses and criticized the Catholic Church??
who is Martin Luther
While the natives believed in shared land, the settlers wanted what with land?
What is "Land ownership."
What was the effect of the Spanish conquering the Natives?
immense flow of wealth to spain and all of europe because they profited off the natural resources in the americas
a brutal labor system that forced Native Americans to work on Spanish-owned lands, justified by the promise of conversion to Christianity.
development of the Encomienda System (16th century)
who was the first explorer to reach the Indian Ocean by sea and establish Portugal as a major trading empire?
who is Vasco de Gama?
what is the name of the constant-moving lifestyle of the natives?
what was the cause of the native cultural practices being altered or suppressed?
spanish missionaries trying to convert the natives to christianity
English defeat the Spanish to give them a chance to enter the new world
Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)
who promoted the “city upon a hill.” idea (That the colony should mirror a CHRISTIAN society.)
who is John Winthrop?
what is the main factor that contributed to the natives population decline
what are European diseases.
what was the effect of the europeans using african and native americans for labor for the european plantation economy?
this set in a pattern for early forms of slavery and coerced labor in the americas that was followed by the atlantic slave trade
an imaginary line to divide the non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal.
Pope Alexander VI's Line of Demarcation (1493)