1.2 & 1.3
Cultivation of this plant spread throughout the Americas and was a staple food product in Native American diets
Maize
This concept is the trade of different foods, animals, tools, and diseases between the New and Old Worlds
Columbian Exchange
The cruelty of Spain was the origin of this.
The Black Legend
On this day, everything is pink and heart shaped.
St. Valentine's Day
This Italian navigator is hotly debated for his contributions to history. He has his own holiday in October.
Columbus
This empire was known for its wide-spread, interconnecting roads as well as the cultivation of the potato and llamas.
Inca
This disease ran rampant throughout the Americas. Fortunately, it has been eradicated and only exists in high security labs...we hope.
Small Pox
This group of people managed to avoid relying heavily on native labor due to not settling in the midst of Native American empires.
English
Everyone feels Irish on this day, what with all the green shamrock and leprechaun imagery.
St. Patrick's Day
This royal couple helped to finance Columbus' voyage.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
One theory suggest the ancestors of Native Americans came over to the New World by crossing this land mass tens of thousands of years ago.
Land bridge; Bering Strait
This second leg of the Transatlantic Slave Trade-or the Triangular Trade-brought African slaves to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Some natives allied with the Spanish to overthrow this empire.
Aztecs
This day has the tradition of "gobbling" down food and watching football.
Thanksgiving
This other Italian navigator and map maker is the reason we call the Americas...well, the Americas.
Amerigo Vespucci
This European concept viewed liberty as a moral or spiritual condition in which people abandoned sin and embraced Christ.
Christian Liberty
This system gave land to Spanish colonists while requiring local natives to work for them.
Encomienda system
This group saw the natives as possible trade partners and converts to Catholicism
French
This bizarre holiday celebrates work by...not working.
Labor Day
This Catholic thinker promoted the mistreatment of Native Americans as he believed they were godless and inferior to Christian Europeans
Sepulveda
For Europeans, freedom came from knowing one's this and completing the duties related to it.
Social standing; social rank
According to the Spanish Caste system, this group was at the top due to the location of birth and parentage.
Peninsulares
The English did not intermingle with the natives much because they brought over this social unit.
Family
Some people mistake this holiday for Christmas, but this Festival of Lights is about oil lamps and fighting Greeks, not Santa Claus.
Hanukkah
This Catholic priest argued in defense of the Native Americans and asked that they be peacefully converted and educated.
Bartolome de las Casas