The First Americans
Where did Native migrate FROM?
South from Canada
Why did the Europeans think the Native Americans were inferior?
Native Americans had NO written language, metal weapons or guns
Who sailed the Ocean Blue in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
What is the Columbia Exchange?
Exchange of food, weapons, materials and people
When was the Atlantic Slave Trade?
1500's to 1900's
What did Europeans learn from the Native Americans?
Agriculture
How many Native Americans on average were killed?
8 out of 10
Bartolomeu Dias came from _____ and went to _____ in what year?
Portugal, South Africa, in 1488
____ out of ____ Native Americans died from what?
1 out of 2, Smallpox
What continents were a part of the Atlantic Slave Trade?
North America, South America, and Africa
How were skills like fishing and hunting passed down?
Traditions
What were Europeans looking for in the Americas?
Gold
What did Dias do?
Opened up a Water Route to India and Asia
What continents were trading in The Columbian Exchange?
Africa, Americas, and Europe
African Kings and merchants did what?
traded other Africans
Chiefs were a part of what?
Government Systems
Hernan Cortez sailed from _____ to _____ in what year?
Spain, Mexico- Aztec Empire, from 1519-1547
What did Cortez do?
Conquered and destroyed the Aztec Empire
Europeans discovered new what?
Food and livestock
African kingdoms _______ after slave trade?
collasped
What did Native Americans NOT own?
Land or believe in land ownership
Where did Christopher Columbus sailed from _____ to _____?
Spain to North America-Cuba
What was Christopher Columbus looking for?
A direct water route to Asia and never found it
By the 1800s ____ % of (what country) own land and resources?
35%, Europe
What did slavery replace?
Criminal Sentences