Native American Societies before European Contact
European Exploration in the Americas
Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
Cultural Interactions in the Americas
100
This civilization was one of the first and biggest civilizations in Southern Mexico from the years 300-800.
Who are the Mayans.
100
This European explorer who stumbled across America while looking for a shorter trade route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This was a transfer of plants, animals, disease, and ideas across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
This European country was the richest and most powerful kingdom in Europe at the time due to the large ships of gold and silver sent by conquistadors?
What is Spain?
100
This crop was introduced to the English by Native Americans
What is maize (corn)?
200
This civilization was one of the most powerful civilizations in Central Mexico, and had a population of 200,000.
Who are the Aztecs?
200
These were the first European Kingdoms to claim territory in the Americas.
What are Spain and Portugal?
200
This Italian explorer was able to sail to the Americas with the permission of the Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
Christopher Columbus
200
In this system, Spain’s king granted natives who lived on a tract of land to individual Spaniards. The natives were forced to work in the mines in exchange for “care” from the Spanish.
What is the Encomienda System?
200
Many European groups attempted to spread this Christian religion to Native Americans.
What is Catholicism?
300
This civilization developed a vast empire in Western South America, based in Peru.
Who are the Incas?
300
These were the main reasons Europeans wanted to set sail for undiscovered lands.
What is trading and spreading their religion?
300
These European diseases led to native populations rapidly declining.
What are smallpox and measles?
300
This system required colonists to pay a tax to the Spanish king on each enslaved person they imported to the Americas.
What is the Asiento System?
300
The French traveled to the Americas in order to control this economic beneficiary.
What is the Fur Trade?
400
This region was home to many Natives that would follow buffalo and hunt them.
What are the plains?
400
This invention by Arab merchants learned from the Chinese helped the Europeans go on transatlantic voyages.
What is the sailing compass?
400
This economic system was used in Europe before capitalism.
What is feudalism?
400
Before the transatlantic slave trade ended in the late 1800s, slave traders sent between 10 million and 15 million enslaved people from Africa. Between 10 percent and 15 percent died on this voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
This was the reason many Europeans used in order to enslave African and Native Americans, though being false.
What is Biological Inferiority?
500
Woodland Americans lived here on the East of the Mississippi, and had a rich agriculture.
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
500
He drew the vertical line of demarcation that split the Americas into two halves, which would then be moved and become the Treaty of Tordesillas for Spain and Portugal.
Who is the Pope?
500
This type of company protected investors from failures if a trade voyage didn’t succeed by minimizing individual loss.
What are joint-stock companies?
500
This system defined the status of people in the Spanish colonies by their heritage.
What is the Caste System?
500
This European fought for Native American freedoms and persuaded the king of spain to institute the New Laws of 1542.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?