Before European Contact
What area of North America prior to European contact was arid and promoted mobile lifestyles with horses and bison herds that were hunted?
The Great Basin
Who first discovered North America and was supported monetarily by Spain in his journey?
Christopher Columbus
Encomienda System
What is the name of the war that decimated the Native American population and ended Indian resistance in New England?
Metacomb's or King Philip's War
What was the major crop that Native Americans grew that helped promote economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, and social diversification?
Maize/Corn
What is the name of the system of transporting crops, diseases, and cultivation strategies that resulted soon after Christopher Columbus discovered North America?
The Columbian Exchange/Transatlantic Trade
What was the name of the system that created a specific racial hierarchy based on Spanish, African, and Native American blood?
Caste System
What is the name of the trade that the French were heavily involved in with the Native Americans?
Fur trade
What were beans, corn, and squash also known as (allowed us to have something above the hunter/gatherer level)?
Three Sisters
What is the name for crops such as sugar that were extremely profitable and helped expand the African Slave Trade?
Cash Crops
What was the main cause of death for Native Americans after the Spanish colonized America?
Disease
What European group was most friendly with the Native Americans and intermarried between races in order to advance their position in the fur trade?
French
What area of North America did we see Native Americans fishing for food with large canoes and a largely hunter/gatherer lifestyle? (used the ocean's resources in order to support their communities)
California/Northwest
What shift in the European economy was seen after the discovery of North America and their involvement in the Columbian Exchange?
Feudalism to Capitalism
Options: Mulattos, mestizos, creoles, peninsulares
Bartolome de las casas
What is the term for having more food than is needed for the people in a community that allowed community members to be something other than a farmer, and helped to establish permanent villages?
Name one crop/thing that went from Europe to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange. Name another that went from the Americas to Europe.
From Europe to Americas: Disease, livestock, coffee
From Americas to Europe: Corn, potatoes, farming techniques
What religion was required in Spanish colonial settings?
Catholicism
What is the concept that the Spanish followed while trying to coexist with the Natives? It means to take in or to cause someone to resemble someone else?
Assimilation (or conversion to christianity)