Indigenous Communities
What was the name of the indigenous tribe considered the first Native New Yorkers?
The Lenape
Who employed Christopher Columbus?
The Spanish King and Queen
Who is the explorer most people credit for "discovering" the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
The Taino were monotheistic people
What religion did Spanish Europeans force indigenous people to convert to?
Christianity
Where did the Taino people live?
Acceptable answers: The Caribbean; Central America; the island of Hispaniola; Cuba, Florida, and the Bahamas.
Small pox, malaria, and the plague are __________
Diseases
When did Spanish exploration into the New World begin?
After 1492
Columbus intended to travel to the Americas in 1492
False
What is the name of the first unsuccessful English colony?
Roanoke or The Lost Colony of Roanoke
How did the Taino get food?
They hunted animals, harvested plants, and fished.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The exchange of ideas, animals, foods, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
What was the title of Spanish explorers who conquered land in the Americas?
Spanish Conquistadors
Land acquisition became a huge motive for explorers during the Columbian exchange
True
What continents were part of the Old World and the New World respectively?
Old World: Europe, Asia, and Africa
New World: North American and South America
What European group first colonized the New York region in the early 1600s? What did they name the land?
The Dutch. They named the land New Amsterdam.
Name 2 foods that were transferred from the New World to the Old World.
Acceptable answers: tomatoes, corn (maize), beans, potatoes, cassava (yuca), squash, peppers, and cacao.
How did Spanish explorers benefit from conquering new lands? (Name at least 2 benefits)
Spanish Explorers gained control of the people, the land, and its resources. Many explorers gained gold and silver from the lands they seized.
The Inca Empire was destroyed after Francisco Pizarro established rule in their territory.
True
Fill in the blank: Conquering land gave Europeans _________ and ____________
wealth ; power
What people were at the top of the Taino social structure (hierarchy) and what did they do?
The caciques were at the top of the Taino social structure/hierarchy. They were in charge of all the community matters and could give out tasks to others.
What was the name of the man who encountered the Aztec Empire and discovered lots of gold in Mexico?
Hernan Cortes
What methods did Spanish explorers use to take control of indigenous lands?
They used force, threated, enslaved, and killed many native people. Also, the Spanish explorers gave diseases to indigenous communities.
Diseases like syphilis, malaria, and Covid-19 were transferred during the Columbian Exchange.
False. Covid-19 was not transferred during the Columbian Exchange.
Name 3 things that can give people wealth
Acceptable answers: Homes, jewelry, gold and silver, companies/businesses, stocks, rare clothing items and accessories, exotic cars