Ch. 1: The First Americans
Define agriculture
What is the process of planting and raising food?
The exchange of goods, ideas, diseases, and people between the Old World (Europe/Africa) and the New World (North and South America)
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Established by Sir Walter Raleigh, this English colony faced many hardships before eventually disappearing under mysterious circumstances
What is the Roanoke Colony?
A custom or belief that is passed down from one generation to the next
What is a tradition?
This Italian sailor was hired by Spain to find a sea route to India; unfortunately, he ended up in North America instead
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Which tribe is nomadic and which is stationary?
Tribe A: Farmers who have built a complex irrigation system to water their crops
Tribe B: Hunter-gatherers who live in tipis
Tribe A is stationary; Tribe B is nomadic
New Spain was an example of this - a settlement far from the country that rules it
What is a colony?
This cash crop helped the Jamestown colony succeed
What is tobacco?
The system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods
What is an economy?
This member of Portuguese royalty became a major patron to explorers by opening a school that taught sailing and mapmaking
Who is Prince Henry?
Name a valid resource that would have been available to the Inuit people (in modern-day Alaska)
Valid answers: ice/snow/water, seals, whales, other sea animals
This type of boat, invented by the Portuguese, was smaller and lighter than other boats at the time, but its triangular sails and waterproofed wood made it the perfect boat for long voyages.
What is a caravel?
Located in what is today Manhattan, this settlement was established by the Dutch West India Company
What is New Amsterdam?
A large group of states or countries
What is an empire?
Though he was British, this explorer claimed the river area north of Manhattan for the Netherlands
Who is Henry Hudson?
Why was storytelling so important in Native American cultures?
What is because it was how they passed their cultural beliefs on to the next generation?
*exact answers will vary*
This device, invented in North Africa, helped sailors measure their distance from the equator
What is an astrolabe?
This group of people, sometimes referred to as the Pilgrims, wanted to completely separate from the Church of England
Who are the Separatists?
The body's ability to resist or fight off a specific disease
This sailor was the first to sail around the Southern tip of Africa and make it to India
Who is Vasco de Gama?
This is how historians believe the first people came to the Americas
What is they walked across the Bering Land Bridge?
This important commodity (or resource) was found primarily in India. Europeans were so motivated to get it that they spent years searching for a sea route to get there.
What is spices?
After John Smith was injured and forced to return to England, Chief Powhatan stopped trading with the Jamestown Colony. This led to a harsh winter called this
What is The Starving Time?
When one company has exclusive control over the trade in one area
What is a monopoly?
These are the two primary reasons why Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand agreed to pay for Columbus's voyage to North America
What is ...
1. They needed money to pay for wars
2. They wanted to spread Christianity to the Native Americans