European Exploration
This European country sponsored Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage
What is Spain?
This deadly disease was brought to the Americas by Europeans.
What is smallpox?
This system gave Spaniards control over Native labor and land.
What is the encomienda system?
Columbus arrived in the Americas in this year.
What is 1942?
This group built cliff dwellings in what is now the American Southwest.
Who are the Pueblo?
This was the main reason Europeans began exploring sea routes to Asia.
What is to find faster trade routes for spices and goods?
This animal, introduced by Europeans, revolutionized the lives of Plains tribes.
What is the horse?
These were Spanish settlers who sought wealth and conquered Native empires.
Who are conquistadors?
This term describes the widespread transfer of goods, people, and ideas between continents after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These mound-building people lived in the Mississippi River Valley.
Who are the Mississippians?
This Italian explorer is credited with realizing the Americas were not Asia
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
This crop, originally from the Americas, became a staple in Europe and Africa.
What is corn?
This priest spoke out against the mistreatment of Native Americans.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
This was the dominant religion spread by Spanish colonizers.
What is Catholicism?
This Native group lived in longhouses and formed a confederacy in the Northwest
Who are the Iroquois?
This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec Empire.
What are Europe and the Americas?
The Spanish built these to convert and control Native populations.
What are missions?
This group of people were enslaved and forced to work in early Spanish colonies.
Who are Native Americans?
These were the three main crops grown together in Native American agriculture
What are corn, beans, and squash?
The three major motives for exploration
What is God, Gold, Glory?
The Columbian Exchange increased this type of farming in the Americas.
What is plantation farming?
This empire was conquered by Francisco Pizarro
What is the Inca Empire?
This 1494 agreement divided the New World between Spain and Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Native societies in this region relied heavily on fishing and used totem poles.
What is the Pacific Northwest?