Colombian Exchange
The trading and spreading of foods, animals diseases from old word to new and vice versa is called...
The Colombian Exchange.
What is the acronym for the reason of Spanish and European colonization of the new world?
GGG: God, Gold, and Glory!
This Native civilization built a road system across the Andes Mountains.
Unlike, the Spanish Colonies; the British, Dutch and French were more focused on this, rather than searching for gold or silver. Being close together and the coastline.
Trade
Natives lacked this to the diseases brought by Europeans to the America, wiping out 90% of their total population
Immunity
Some plants and animals introduced were destructive to the natural environment and are known as...
Invasive Species
What is the acronym for how the Spanish easily defeated the native Americans?
GGS: Guns, Germs, and Steel!
Chinampas, or “floating gardens,” were farming innovations used by this Native group.
Chinampas
Besides the fur trade, your Dutch and English colonies also got rich from growing food and cash crops, Basically got rich from...
Farming
Crops that are grown but offer no real food sustenance. They are grown and sold for Profit.
Cash Crops
The Exchange is nicknamed after the person who discovered the west indies/Caribbean islands and paved the way for European exploration
Christopher Colombus
This was the name of the Spanish soldiers who fought and took control of some North America and most of Central and South America.
Conquistadors
Natives in the southwest region of the United States used this special clay/mud building material to naturally cool ad warm their homes.
Adobe
This colonial power will live in the words, focusing and becoming rich from hunting, trapping, and the fur trade.
French/France
The French and Dutch colonies focused on this economic activity, involving hunting and trapping, in Canada and the northeast region of North America, instead of farming.
Fur Trade
This device, invented by the Greeks and Islamic, used shadows of the sun, horizon, and stars to determine time and position at sea.
Astrolabe
What is the name of the "trade" that brought enslaved Africans to the new world as a new labor source?
The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
This animal was greatly depended on by the Great Plains tribe for all of there resources; food, shelter, material, and even religion.
Buffalo/Bison
This North American Colonial Power will grow cash crops and come to heavily rely on slave labor on large plantations
Britain/English/British
This Cash crop will make the British colony of Jamestown rich due to its fertile soil, water, and sun. However, it will lead to the use of slaver labor in North America
Tobacco
This staple crop, first grown by Native Americans, became a key food in Europe and Africa and all over the world. It still is to this day!
Corn
This was the name social and economic system used by the Spanish to enslave the natives and subjugate them.
Encomienda's
The most widely accepted theory that ancient man crossed in to the Americas on land when seas levels were lower
Land Bridge Theory
This Colonial Power had a more diverse economy; trading furs, growing crops and farming, as well as shipping and fishing along the coast.
Dutch/Netherlands
As Natives dies off due to disease, enslavement, and mistreatment Spain and eventually other colonial powers will look to this country to solve their labor shortage.
Africa