Interactions
Exploration
The Exchange
Native lifestyles
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100
How did Europeans view Natives?
Europeans found Natives barbaric and inhuman compared to their standards.
100
Where did Christopher Columbus land in the Americas?
Columbus landed in the Caribbean of the Americas.
100
Which New World item was traded in the Columbian and taken by the Italians?
The New Worlds native tomato plant was traded in the Columbian exchange and taken in by Italians who incorporated the vegetable into cultural food.
100
A civilization in central Mexico that emerged as the dominant force in central Mexico, developing an intricate social, political, religious and commercial organization that brought many of the region’s city-states under their control by the 15th century.
Aztecs
100
To help fund their naval and colonial activities in the midst of competition with Portugal, they financed Columbus's voyages to search for trade routes and fresh sources of gold and silver through new colonies.
King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I of Spain
200
What were the main interactions between Natives?
Trading and the occasional conflict.
200
What was the first official colony of the Americas?
The first colony to be established in the New World was in Saint Augustine. The colony was founded by the spanish.
200
What was the Columbian exchange and its impact?
The transmission and interchange of plants, animals, diseases, cultures, human populations (including slaves), and technologies between the New World and the Old World. Greatly benefited Europe and Asia while simultaneously bringing catastrophe to American Indian populations and cultures.
200
A small tribe that steadily grew in power to conquer other civilizations all down the coast from Colombia to Argentina. They are remembered for their contributions to religion, architecture, and their famous network of roads throughout the region.
Incas
200
Italian explorer and colonizer. While attempting to prove a westward sea route for East Asian trade existed, he stumbled across the Bahamas in October 1492. The first European to visit the islands of Hispaniola and Cuba.
Christopher Columbus
300
What were the religious interactions between Natives and Colonists?
Colonists disagreed with the lack of religion in Native culture, pressuring them to convert to Christianity.
300
What are the three G’s of exploration?
God, Gold, and Glory
300
Which popular cash crop was Native to the New World and popular world wide?
Tobacco was a popular Native New World cash crop that was heavily demanded in Europe.
300
Evolved from a nomadic, hunter-gathering lifestyle to a sedentary culture, primarily making their homes in the Four Corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. They expanded into an agricultural culture, growing maize, corn, squash, and beans, raising turkeys, and developing complex irrigation systems.
Pueblo
300
The Spanish conquistador responsible for conquering the Aztec Empire and building Mexico City which enabled Spain to create a stronghold and colonies in the New World.
Hernán Cortés
400
What were the interactions between Africans and colonists?
Colonists believed Africans were the superior race to enslave, Colonists began buying imprisoned people from African tribes to force into slavery.
400
Which European nation followed after the arrival of the Spanish?
The British began exploring the New World after the arrival of the Spanish as a way of expanding their power and economy.
400
How did the Columbian exchange lead up to the Transatlantic slave trade?
Economically, the population decrease brought by the Columbian Exchange indirectly caused a drastic labor shortage throughout the Americas, eventually contributing to the establishment of African slavery on a vast scale in the Americas. By 1650, the slave trade had brought new diseases, such as malaria and yellow fever, further plaguing Native Americans.
400
occupied much of the northwestern part of Central America. They practiced mainly slash-and-burn agriculture, but they used advanced techniques of irrigation and terracing. They also developed a system of hieroglyphic writing and highly sophisticated calendrical and astronomical systems.
Mayans
400
Italian explorer and cartographer. His 1499–1502 trip along the South American coast determined that the New World was a distinct continent from Asia.
Amerigo Vespucci
500
What was the main interaction between the Natives and Spanish colonists?
Attempting to take land, spreading diseases such as smallpox and malaria
500
Who is credited with being the first person to circumnavigate the world?
Ferdinand Magellan was credited with being the first person to circumnavigate the globe.
500
How did the arrive of horses during the Columbian exchange affect the lifestyle of Natives living in the North American Great Plains?
In the North American great plains, the arrival of the horse revolutionized Native American life, permitting tribes to hunt the buffalo far more effectively. Several Native American groups left farming to become buffalo-hunting nomads and, incidentally, the most formidable enemies of European expansion in the Americas.
500
A league or confederacy of Native American nations in the Northeastern part of America that led a semi sedentary way of life, and every 10–30 years changed locations after they had depleted the natural resources necessary for survival. They mainly lived in the regions that were easy to defend, like those close to hills and water.
Iroquois
500
In pursuit of a rumored fountain of youth located on an island known as Bimini, this person led an expedition to the coast of Florida in 1513. Thinking it was the island he sought, he sailed back to colonize the region in 1521.
Juan Ponce de León