Native Americans
This region hosted a Native American group that built complex irrigation systems, had permanent settlements and societies, and made homes out of adobe and clay.
What is the Southwest?
This Italian explorer's landing in the Caribbean began European Exploration of the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This was the exchange of animals, plants, technologies, ideas, and sicknesses between Europe and America after Columbus's voyages.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What is Catholicism?
This is the belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
This Native American group hunted, followed herds of animals, and built temporary homes called teepees.
Who were the Great Plains Natives?
This treaty divided the non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The Columbian Exchange fueled a change from this economic system to Capitalism.
What was Feudalism?
These people in the Spanish colonial hierarchy were wealthy elites born in mainland Spain.
Who were the Peninsulares?
This was the combination of Catholicism and Native religion practiced by the Native Americans in Spanish America.
What is Syncretism?
The Native American groups in this region included the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy).
What is the Northeast?
This time period marked the transition from the European Middle Ages to the Modern ages.
What was the Renaissance?
This was a system where Natives would work for Spanish settlers in exchange for protection and conversion.
What was the Encomienda System?
After Native Americans, the Spanish turned to these people for labor.
Who were African Slaves?
This is the system of female authority in family structures that many Native American tribes practiced.
What is matriarchy?
This region featured rich soil that its Native inhabitants used for Three Sisters Farming.
What is the Southeast?
This explorer explored Newfoundland and laid claim to it for England.
Who was John Cabot?
This Spanish explorer conquered the Mexica Empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
This Spanish priest advocated against using Native American forced labor.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
This resource is what the French traded with the Native Americans of the Great Lakes area for.
What is animal fur?
This region's Native Americans used canoes and kayaks for transport and hunted fish.
What is the Northwest?
These 2 kingdoms on the Iberian peninsula merged to form Spain.
What were Castile and Aragon?
This animal introduced from Europe to the Americas was adapted by Native Americans of the Great Plains.
What are horses?
These people in the Spanish Caste System were of mixed European and Native/African descent.
Who were Mestizos?
While Europeans had centralized monarchies, Native Americans had these.
What is a confederation?