Unit 1 Vocab
Smallpox, measles, chicken pox, malaria
What are diseases?
Transfer of people, cultures, biology, and other goods between the Old and New Worlds
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These Europeans developed strong alliances with Native Americans which different from the relationship between Native Americans and the Spanish
Who were the French?
Tobacco was the cash crop
What is the Chesapeake colonies?
Was the staple food of most of the pre-Columbian North American, Mesoamerican, South American, and Caribbean cultures
What is corn?
A Spanish conquistador who led the Spanish conquest of Peru. He captured and killed the Incan emperor and claimed the lands for Spain.
Who is Pizarro?
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
What are the Southern colonies?
Settled primarily by Puritan families
What is the New England colonies?
A labor system in which the Spanish crown authorized Spaniards to enslave native people to farm and mine in the Americas
What is the Encomienda System?
Sponsored Columbus' Voyage
Ferdinand and Isabella
Settled in New Netherland to expand their commercial and mercantile network (the answer is Spain, France, Dutch, or England).
Who were the Dutch?
An area here became a safe haven for Quakers
What is the Middle Colonies?
These people, in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and the rain forest of Guatemala, built large urban centers that relied on elaborate systems of water storage and irrigation
Who were the Maya?
These Native Americans, who lived in present-day Ohio, had increased their food supply by domesticating plants, organized themselves in large villages, and set up a trading network that stretched from present-day Louisiana to Wisconsin.
Who were the Hopewell?
Incorporated Native Americans and enslaved and free Africans in to their colonial society. (the answer is Spanish, French, Dutch, or English).
Who were the Spanish?
A place here became a safe haven for Catholics
What is the Chesapeake colonies?
Major 16th century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This person, "conquered an empire and destroyed a civilization." In 1519, he led an expedition to the mainland with 600 men and defeated the Maya
Who was Cortes?
Attracted a large number of male and female migrants; focused on agriculture. (the answer is Spanish, French, Dutch, or English)
Who were the English?
Economy = fishing, lumber, small farms, manufacturing
What is the New England colonies?