Native American Regional Landscape
Tenochtitlan was one of the world's largest cities and home to 250,000 people from this empire?
Aztec
Cultivated crop and predominant food staple which spread from Latin America to as far as Maine by the time of European contact.
Maize (Corn)
The transatlantic flow of goods and people including plants, animals and culture.
Columbian Exchange
Missionary religious order who had some success converting Indians to Catholicism while allowing some autonomy.
Jesuits
The image of Spain as a brutal and exploitive colonizer, furthered by Las Casas's writings.
Black Legend
Was one of the largest settled communities in present day St. Louis, known for giant mounds.
Cahokia
What term best describes tribal gender relations in present day America?
Matrilineal
The first ship capable of long distance travel which enabled exploration of the New World.
Caravel
Eventually formed as an arc along the St. Lawrence, Mississippi, Ohio Rivers by explorers and fur traders.
New France
Original grant by the Spanish crown enabling colonizers to demand tribute and use forced labor through the Hacienda system.
Encomienda
In present day New York these five groups formed ______ that brought peace and stability to the Northeast Region
Great League of Peace
How did most tribes view land and property?
Land could not be owned, only to be used
What was the deadliest weapon conquistadors possessed at the time they reached American civilizations?
Smallpox
Florida
This regional group constructed dams and canals, distributing water, conducting trade as far as central Mexico and the Mississippi River Valley.
Southwest
Tribes did not focus on material wealth and instead felt this was essential even in trade.
Gift giving and sharing
Secondary landing point of Columbus's 1st voyage that became the 1st permanent base in America for the Spanish empire in 1502.
Hispaniola
Dutch freedom had limitations but there were allowances made for ____
freedom of press and religious toleration
Became the 1st permanent European settlement in the Southwest in 1606.
Santa Fe
These are places of religious worship found in the ruins of Pueblo Bonita.
Kivas
Native American religious ceremonies centered around
Farming and Hunting
The main reason Spain had developed an immense empire in North America by the 16th century.
Extraction of gold and silver
Name for the large tracts of land granted by the Dutch West India Company to the first settlers of New Netherland.
Patroons (Patroon System)
Single most complete victory of native peoples against Europeans in 1680.
Pueblo Revolt