The Colombian Exchange
Sponsored Colombus' expedition to the Americas.
Who are King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille?
This is the most accepted theory of how the Americas were peopled.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
The oldest site in the US continuously inhabited by European settlers and their descendants.
What is St. Augustine, FL
Discovered New York Harbor searching for a Northwest Passage to Asia.
Who is Henry Hudson?
In this New World colony, races were given very strict categories that offered no mobility.
What is Mexico?
This explorer was the first to declare the newly discovered land was a new continent, not just an unexplored portion of Asia.
Who is America Vespucci?
In present-day Mexico, this subsistence technique developed around the same time it did independently in Europe/Asia.
What is farming or agriculture?
Feared that Spanish cruelty was undermining the pursuit of spreading Christianity to Indians and helped institute the New Laws which commanded that Indians no longer be enslaved.
Bartolome de las Casas
The person that was required to purchase title to the land from Indians, but otherwise had rights like a medieval lord over the tenants he transported to the New World, along with the right to 10% of his tenants' annual income and complete authority over law enforcement within his domain.
What is the patroon?
The highest category in the racial caste system that included only white European-born colonists.
What are the Peninsulares?
This was the most impactful of items Europeans contributed to the Colombian Exchange.
What are germs/illnesses/diseases
This UNESCO Heritage Site in Louisiana was a commercial and governmental center whose residents established trade routes through the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys.
What is Poverty Point?
Las Casas's writings contributed to this that showed the Spanish to be uniquely brutal and an exploitative colonizer.
The Black Legend
This particular colony was subjected to an early smear campaign where it was portrayed as cold, full of savage natives, and a dumping ground for criminals.
What is New France?
What is Spanish (White) and African (black)?
This invention caused news of the discovery of new land to spread quickly across Europe.
What is moveable type
The man who united New Mexico's Pueblo Indians in a revolt against their Spanish colonizers that was the most complete victory for Native Americans over Europeans and the only wholesale expulsion of settlers in the history of North America.
Popé
The term for Spanish explorers like Francisco Pizzaro and Hernán Cortés who led the invasion of the New World and conquered the empires of the Inca and Aztec.
What is conquistador.
These religious dissidents weren't welcome in New France once the Edict of Nantes was revoked.
Who are Huguenots?
This particular classification originally had the taint of illegitimacy attached to it.
What is the Mestizo class?
The addition of these two vegetables from the New World to Old helped two large ethnic groups in the United States to perfect their cuisine.
What are Potatoes and Tomatoes
The idea that true freedom meant abandoning a life of sin to embrace the teachings of Christ and that liberty came from knowing one's social place and fulling the duties appropriate to one's rank.
What is Christian Liberty and Freedom
The system that replaced the encomienda system, wherein residents of Indian villages remained legally free and entitled to wages but were still required to perform a fixed amount of income a year?
The repartimiento system
This colonizer group tended to identify with the American Indians because they had only recently won their own independence from Spain after one of the bloodiest wars of the 16th century.
Who are the Dutch?
These people were born in the New World from European parents.
Who were Criollos or Creoles?