Folklore & Legend:
Native / European
Native / European
The guy who rose from the dead:
Mecco Nish / Jesus
Why is it called the Columbian Exchange?
For Christopher Columbus.
Columbus is credited for knitting ___?____ back together by Historian Alfred W. Crosby.
Pangea
The agriculture of Native Peoples versus Europeans included what key philosophical difference; not a physical asset, but a mental one?
Native Peoples saw themselves as partners / stewards / fellow products of Nature; Europeans saw themselves as rulers over Nature.
What ecosystem did the Lenape fires turn land into?
Open Oak Savannah
Who created the world?
The Turtle / God
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi & Andres Ochoa de Urdaneta y Cerai
Because he thought that he had discovered India.
What did the Europeans have that allowed them to cover long distances and complete large scale development, such as farming, more efficiently than Native Americans?
Domesticated animals
Why were the Lenape considered a nomadic people?
They moved almost every single season.
What lesson(s) did the infamous Corn Lady preach?
Thankfulness / faith in complex systems unseen
How did Spain lose The 80 Years' War (1568-1648)?
Spain failed to pay its soldiers, which resulted in widespread mutiny.
How many people did Columbus leave behind on his first voyage?
38 men
What modern-day weapon could the Taino people be loosely credited for, based upon what they threw at the Spaniards (Gourds with ashes and hot peppers) in combat?
Pepper spray / smoke bombs
What is the consequence of repeatedly planting large-scale, monoculture crops over a long period of time?
A) Lack of food / health
B) Lack of biodiversity which allows for pestilence, disease and reduced fertility
"He who creates us from his thoughts" is also known as . . .
Kishelemukong / The Great Spirit
What did China learn from Europeans?
Very little as they considered them uncivilized and less advanced.
What were the top two reasons / trade commodities that drove Columbus across the sea?
Silk & Spices
What are the advantages to being a sedentary society?
1) Domestication of animals
2) Cultivation of large-scale agriculture
3) Concentrated wealth and power
What role did fire play for the Lenape?
2) Recreation
3) Observation of stars
Where is Chief Muncie derived from?
A language spoken by Native Peoples / a stereotypical understanding of Natives from European settlers / an unknown or forgotten history
The Columbian Exchange could more accurately be described as the Columbian Extraction, list three reasons for this:
1) Diseases
2) Slavery
3) Trade expansion / land and resource seizure
Columbus was born where?
Columbus was born in the Italian seaport of Genoa in 1451, to a family of wool weavers.
What were the advantages to being a nomadic society?
1) Hard to attack a moving target
2) No need to domesticate animals
3) No need to cultivate large-scale agriculture
What caused the Little Ice Age of the 1600s?
1) Reduced solar output
2) Changes in atmospheric circulation / reforestation due to genocide of Native Americans by Europeans
3) Explosive volcanism