Central and South American Cultures
European Exploration
Columbian Exchange & Competition
European and Native Interactions
Responses to & from Native Americans
100

The spread of this central American crop supported economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, and social diversification among societies in the present-day American Southwest.

What is maize (corn)?

100

This nation had the greatest success in settling the "New World" during the 16th century.

What was Spain?

100

This grew Europe's population and economy, accelerating the shift from feudalism to capitalism and encouraging more New World exploration.

What was the Columbian Exchange?

100

The Spanish used this system to support plantation-based agriculture and the mining of precious metals.

What was the encomienda system?

100

This Spanish missionary spoke out about  the abuses of Native Americans 

Who was Bartolome de la Cases?

200

In the Northeast, the Mississippi River Valley, and along the Atlantic seaboard, some societies developed mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economies that favored the development of ____________________ villages.

What is permanent or sedentary?

200

The French gained geographic and cultural knowledge that led to their success in this trade with many native tribe in the 17th century (in modern day Canada).

What was the fur trade?

200

The Columbian Exchange introduced Old World diseases to the New World; American Indians had no natural ___________ to.

What is immunity?

200

Under the Encomienda system, who did all of the manual labor?

Who were the Natives (and later the enslaved Africans)?

200

In 1537, the Sublimus Dei declared that the indigenous populations of the Americas possessed both reason and soul who should no longer _________________.

What is be enslaved?

300

Societies in the Northwest and present-day California supported themselves by hunting and gathering, using the vast resources of the this body of water.

What was the Pacific Ocean?

300

Early English explorers during the 16th century were motivated by military and economic competition with their rival, _______.

What was Spain.  


[When the English destroyed the Spanish Armada in 1588, the English started exploring and settling the "New World"]

300

The deadliest of all European diseases was this.

What was smallpox?

300

The ___________ system incorporated and carefully defined status for Spain's diverse colonial population, including American Indians and Enslaved Africans

What was the caste system?

300

With the Sublimus Dei and The New Laws of the Indies ending native enslavement, a labor shortage in the Spanish colonies was gradually filled by_______________.

Who were enslaved Africans?

400

The Mayans, Aztec of Central Americans and this Native American group in South America all developed organized societies, cultivated crops, had organized religions and accurate calendars. 

Who were the Incas?

400

When the Moors (North Africans) were kicked out of Spain, this duo came to power and began funding explorers to settle and conquer new territories.

Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?

400

Old World crops flourished in the New World, supporting colonial populations and reducing the price of luxury goods, like __________________ in Europe.

What is coffee and sugar?

400

These people, who were born in Spain, were at the very top of the Spanish Caste system.

Who were the Peninsulares? 

400

The Asciento system was the same as the Encomienda System only it applied to this group of poeple.

Who were enslaved Africans?

500

In modern day New York and New England, the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk tribes all came together and formed this.

What was the Iroquis Confederation?

500

These Spanish peoples truly wanted to convert the natives into Catholic Christians.  (Hint: they established lots of missions on the east coast and southwest of modern day America)

Who were the missionaries?

500

In the Treaty of Tordesillas, the pope divided the Americas between Spain and this nation

What is Potugual? 

500

Since they took less land and traded with them, this group of Europeans had the best relations with Native Americans.

Who were the French?

500

This name was given to those whose parents were Spanish and Native.

Who were the Mestizos?

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