Religion and the New World
Native Societies
Colonization
Trade and Contact
All Things Relevant
100

A source of criticism during the early stages of the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church sold THESE in order to raise money to build St. Peter's Basilica 

Indulgences 

100

Natives societies were able to become sedentary and heavily increase in population due to the cultivation of this crop. 

Maize 

100

This former encomendero was a converted friar who defended native rights in the New World 

Bartolome de Las Casas 

100
Over the course of 150-200 years, 80-95% of all natives died from disease, the most prominent, scholars believe, to be WHICH disease
Smallpox
100

This invention by Johannes Gutenberg in the 16th century suddenly made the spread of literature and thus ideas available to common folk. Literacy rates began to steadily climb around Europe. 

Printing Press

200
Martin Luther nailed this many theses to a church door while in the process sparking what became known as the Protestant Reformation

95 theses 

200

The most advanced and populated permanent/hunter-gatherer societies in NORTH America developed in the valleys of this river

Mississippi River 

200

This 16th-19th century trading system supported a colonizing country to maintain and regulate tight control of its colonies in order to increase its wealth

Mercantilism 

200

Identify TWO items that the Europeans were introduced to from contact in the New World

Cacao / Potato / Beans / Maize / Squash / Peanuts / Peppers / Avocado / Tomatoes / Tobacco / pumpkins / turkeys / pineapple 

200

The French established lucrative trading posts centered around this item in Quebec, Canada, and around the Great Lakes

Fur 

300

Growing tired of Spanish colonization, encomienda, and forced religious conversions, Southwest natives participated in this revolt, beginning in 1680. 

Pueblo Revolt (or Pope's Rebellion) 

300

Southwest natives often built these types of dwellings in order to maintain defense protection against rival natives

Cliff 

300

This Englishman sailing for the Dutch established Manhattan and a settlement in what would become New York 

Henry Hudson 

300

Identify TWO ITEMS that the Europeans were introduced to from contact by the Old World  

Honeybees / livestock / grapes / sugar cane / bananas / peaches / olives / coffee / citrus fruits / horses 

300

Although some scholars argue that humans arrived much earlier, the majority of scholars agree that a mass-migration of humans arrived in the Americas about 11,000 years ago across this (then-frozen) waterway

Bering Strait

400

Even though most churches delivered mass in Latin, the vast majority of commoners and parishioners did not speak the language; instead, they spoke their local language or dialect, otherwise known as THIS (what is it called when people are speaking the common language) 

vernacular 

400
Aside from the Incas in South America, the Aztecs, otherwise known as this true name of theirs, possessed another primary military empire in central America

Mexicas 

400

These two monarchs granted Christopher Columbus the funding to sail westward in search of a sea route to Asia 

Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain 

400
Draw and label a diagram of the Triangular trade

Raw materials in Americas --> Europe --> Manufactured materials in Europe --> Africa --> slaves in Africa to the Americas

400

Explain how labor sources changed for the Spanish from 1492-1600. 

Natives working in the encomienda were dying from the labor and disease -- the Spanish then switched to the importation of African slaves (Spanish not the only ones to do this) 

500

This POPE began the practice of selling faster routes to heaven to his parishioners in the early 16th century

Pope Leo X

500

Although dwindled by the time of the arrival of Columbus, the Mayans were primarily located on this peninsula in modern-day Mexico. 

Yucatan 

500

In the racial casta system that developed in New Spain, this was the term used to identify the offspring of a Spaniard and native.

Mestizo 

500

This disease was the one major disease that was transmitted from the natives back to Europe 

Syphilis 

500

These 17th and 18th century mercantilist laws enforced tariffs and restricted all British colonists to trade only with England

Navigation Acts

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