Pre-Colombian America
Colombian Exchange and Beyond
Early Spanish Colonization
(Double Jeopardy) Pre-Revolutionary Slavery
100

This nation lived in the Yucatan Penninsula and built an empire in the Classical Period of development.

Who are the Maya

100
Although born in Genoa, Italy Columbus sailed for this nation-state in 1492 on his fateful voyage west across the Atlantic.
What is Spain
100

This is the system of forced labor that the Spanish imposed on the Native Americans

What is "Encomienda"

100
This leg of the South Atlantic System brought captured Africans to the Caribbean and eventually N. America.
What is the "Middle Passage"
200
Located throughout Mexico, this empire's capital city of Tenochtitlan boasted nearly 350,000 residents prior to the arrival of Hernando Cortez in 1516.
Who are the Aztecs
200
More than any other factor of the Colombian Exchange, this impacted American Indian people the most, decimating their population to only a few hundred thousand in the present day.
What is disease
200

This was the first "plantation crop" of the New World; Many Europeans wanted access to this important "spice of life"

What is sugar

200
The introduction of this advanced weapon by Europeans allowed coastal African tribes to gain a military advantage over their neighbors which helped add numbers to the booming slave trade in the 1600s-1700s.
What are firearms/guns
300
Most American-Indian groups followed this type of lineage which placed women at the top of the social-political pyramid as keepers of the villages and advisers to chiefs.
What is matralineal
300
Of all the European nations who encountered American Indians, this one enjoyed probably the most cordial relationship through mutual understanding and gift-giving.
What is France
300

This King of the Aztecs sought at first to make friends with the Spanish, but then found himself in a war with the Spanish.

Who is Montezuma

300
A key event in Virginia that set into motion the idea that black Africans were to be "permanent slaves" in order to drive a wedge between them and the poor white population.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
400
This practice of having smaller, weaker nations pay goods/gold to stronger nations for protection or due to being conquered was practiced by many tribes including the Aztec, Inca, and Algonquins (and later the Spanish).
What is the tribute system
400
The import of this New World vegetable to Africa in the 1500s sharply increased their indigenous population but at the same time made them prime candidates for slavery soon after.
What is maize (corn)
400

When "you keep what you conquer", you gain this important noble title.

What is a "Viceroy"

400
By the early 1700s, most slaves were classified as this term, literally meaning "personal, movable property".
What is "chattel"
500

This is the god that the Aztec Empire sacrificed living people to in order to protect the world.

Quetzalcoatl 

500
Formally established in 1610 by the Spanish as a northern province of New Mexico, it today remains the oldest capital city in what is now the United States
What is Santa Fe
500

These are the two kingdoms that were united to create modern Spain.

What are Aragon and Castille

500
South Carolina's original settlers came from this Caribbean sugar colony and meant to recreate the same type of plantation lifestyle as well as install their version slavery on N. American soil.
What is Barbados
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