Exploration
Impacts
Explorers
Native Americans
100
The year Columbus first landed in the New World.
1492?
100
The name of the exchange between the New and Old World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
The man who first discovered the New World.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This Native American group who lived in houses called Pueblos.
Who are the Pueblo Indians?
200
The majority of New World colonies were paid for by these groups.
What are Joint Stock Companies?
200
Corn and potatoes originally came from here.
What is the Old World?
200
The man who conquered the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
200
Powerful Native American group that lived in present day New York.
Who are the Iroquois Indians?
300
The failed colony also know as the lost colony.
What is Roanoke?
300
The name of the disease that decimated Native American populations.
What is Smallpox?
300
The ultimate goal of Spanish Conquistadors was to acquire this.
What is wealth?
300
A person of mixed European and Native American descent.
What is a Mestizo?
400
The establishment of this settlement marked the end of this period.
What is Jamestown?
400
The introduction of this animal greatly changed life for plains Indians.
What is a horse?
400
An institution that explorers used to justify the subjugation of native people?
What is Christianity?
400
A Spanish Priest who spoke out against the cruel treatment of Native Americans.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
500
The device that measures the angle between two objects that made navigation to the new world easier.
What is a sextant?
500
A system of labor that gave conquistadors and their descendants legal control of the labor of the native population.
What is the encomiendas system
500
The explorer who gave Florida its name.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
500
The Native American Group that had the largest permanent settlements in the new world.
Who are the Aztecs?
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