Columbus
What country was Columbus from?
Italy
What are the 3 tribes from the Great Basin Region?
Ute, Paiute, Shoshone
Define a conquistador:
Explorers from Spain who conquered lands and Natives to claim their land for their country.
What army did England defeat that they should not have been able to?
The Spanish Armada
What was the purpose of Columbus's first voyage?
To find a westward route to Asia.
Why did Columbus refer to Native Americans as Indians?
He thought that he had landed in India.
What does it mean to have a geographic perspective?
To look at culture through the lens of geography.
What was the term for the route that Europe was trying to find to Asia?
Northwest Passage
What years did Columbus complete his voyages?
1492, 1493, 1498, 1502
How did the tribes of Western American cultures hunt buffalo?
By steering them into corrals or over cliffs where men could then kill them with arrows or spears.
Define chattel slavery:
A system of slavery in which people are classified as property and have little to no human rights.
What year did England defeat the Spanish Armada?
1588
What happened on Columbus's 4th voyage?
The colonists were revolting, and he was arrested.
How is it believed that the original Americans made it from Asia to North America?
Land bridge called Beringia during the Ice Age
or
The Coastal Migration Theory
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Biological mixing of the new world of the Americas, and the old world of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Named after Christopher Columbus.
Why did Spain attack England?
Because Queen Elizabeth supported the Netherlands when they declared independence from Spain.
What did Columbus study?
Navigation and Cartography (map making)
Which tribes made up the Iroquois League?
Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca
Explain Triangular Trade
A trade system in which sugar, tobacco, and cotton were sent from America to Europe; textiles, rum, and manufactured goods were sent from Europe to Africa, and Slaves were taken and sent from Africa to America.
Who was the first explorer from England?
John Cabot