Spanish Colonization
This Italian merchant was the first European to arrive in the Americas and begin a wave of exploration, although he thought he was in Asia
Christopher Columbus
This French explorer was the first to reach the St. Lawrence River in Canada and started the lucrative fur trade between the Europeans and the Native Americans
Jacques Cartier
This European nation had the best relationships with the Native Americans, because they were here to trade and took the least land from the native peoples
France
This Woodland Nation lived in what is today Indiana, and their main village was located where Fort Wayne is today along the Three Rivers
Miami
These Scandinavian raiders, traders and explorers were the first ones historians know for a fact reached North America around the year AD 1000.
Vikings
This term describes Spanish explorers and soldiers who came to conquer the Native Americans and gain wealth from their enslaved labor and resources
Conquistadors
European priests and ministers who came to attempt to convert the Native Americans to Christianity were known as:
Missionaries
Many Native Americans quickly abandoned traditional spears and bows & arrows in exchange for these tools, which made hunting, trapping and warfare easier
Guns & metal traps
This Woodland nation lived in Michigan and northern Indiana, and was part of the Three Fires alliance with the Ojibwe and the Ottawa
Potawatomi
In addition to their traditional homes, Native Americans were able to build these types of homes, used by colonists, using European axes and tools
Log cabins
This Spanish explorer conquered the mighty Aztec Empire in 1521 with a much smaller force
Hernan Cortes
This English explorer thought he had found a passage through the continent, but instead found a great river that the Dutch later settled along and built a colony near
Henry Hudson
Historians estimate that the population of the Americas dropped from 100 million in 1492 to this number in 1600, due to disease, warfare, loss of land and starvation due to European arrival
6 million
This Woodland nation lived in what is today New York, and was a league or confederacy made up of five tribes (Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga and Mohawk)
Iroquois
Name three different foods that Native Americans had access to through the Columbian Exchange
Cows, pigs, wheat, citrus fruits, honey bees
This Spanish explorer conquered the mighty Inca Empire in 1532 with a much smaller force
Francisco Pizarro
This European country built a colony in what is now Delaware, and the people there made a living from farming, fishing and trading for furs from the Native Americans
Sweden
Among the many trade goods Native Americans got for their animal furs, many became addicted to this trade good from the Europeans, and wasted animal furs trading for it, ruining lives than as it so often still does now
Alcohol
This Woodland nation lived in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, and claimed their ancestors had held that land for thousands of years
Cherokee
These animals brought through the Columbian Exchange made travel easier for Native Americans, in addition to traditional methods of travel
Horses
Although the Spanish killed and enslaved many of the Native Americans, far more died from this
Diseases like smallpox, measles and typhoid fever
Name three different trade goods the Native Americans wanted in exchange for animal furs
These wars throughout the 1600's were caused by competition between Native American nations for the fur trade with the Europeans, and led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people
Beaver Wars
This Woodland nation was known as the Lenni Lenape, and were pushed from their homes along the Atlantic Coast by European colonists
Delaware
This game had been played by Native Americans for centuries before the Europeans arrived, and is still played today across North America
Lacrosse