Early Human Migration
What does the word Adapt mean?
To change or adjust to a new situation, environment, or set of rules
What is a hunter-gather?
Someone who gets food by hunting animals, fishing, and gathering wild plants like berries and nuts, instead of farming
What were the 3 motivations for European explorations?
Gold, God and Glory.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
A period of cultural and biological exchanges between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. They exchanged plants, animals(for example, the horse), diseases and technology.
How did Christopher Columbus View the Native Americans?
Weak, people that can be their servants/slaves and convert to Christianity.
Bering Land Bridge which is a strip of land between which two places?
Asia and Alaska
A person who moves from place to place instead of living in one permanent home is known as a
Nomad
What was the El Requerimiento?
A document from the Spanish telling the Indigenous people that the Pope, ruled the world and their land was given to the Spanish King. Indigenous people had to convert to the Spanish religion or face punishment.
How did the Columbian Exchange affect Native Americans?
Diseases from the Europeans killed Native Americans and caused their population to decrease.
How did Hernan Cortez view the Native Americans?
He viewed them as a way to get rich. He viewed them as slaves.
Finish this statement: No one knows exactly when or how early humans arrived in North America, but many scientists believe that the first people traveled down the...?
Bering Land Bridge which is a strip of land between Asia and Alaska when the water froze over.
What are the different components (parts) of a society?
Leaders, Rules, Language, people, cultures, religions, jobs, social class, etc
Christopher Columbus was actually looking for a trade route to which continent when he landed in the Americas?
Asia
Which of these means "the forced voyage of enslaved Africans to the Americas"?
Middle Passage
How did Bartolomé de las Casas view Native Americans?
Bartolomé de las Casas viewed Native Americans as peaceful people who deserved to be treated fairly.
Evidence suggests that people called P____ _______ crossed this bridge into Alaska
Paleo-Indians
What types of houses did Native American group live in before European Contact?
Long houses, Teepees, Cave Dwellings
What was the motivation of the El Requerimento?
To spread their religion.
How did the Columbian Exchange impact the Europeans?
Europeans started to eat better and this caused them to live a longer life.
How did Bartolomé de las Casas perspective(POV) of Native Americans affect the Continent of Africa?
Because De las Casas saw Native Americans as people who should be treated fairly, he believed that the African people should be enslaved to work on the farms in the Americas.
Why did Native American groups develop distinct(different) cultures after migrating down from Alaska in to North & South America?
Native American groups developed distinct cultures because they had to adapt to new conditions, such as weather and animals which were in their environment. They had to use what they had in order to survive.
What made the Native American societies complex?
They were a society that had people that did different jobs that all helped their civilization grow
Name 3 countries involved in the age of exploration?
Portugal, Spain, France, England, The Netherlands
How did the conditions during the Middle Passage impact(affect) enslaved Africans?
Enslaved Africans were forced to exercise to stay in shape. Enslaved Africans were forced to be chained together, they died of diseases and malnutrition(not eating enough healthy foods). Africans were mistreated.
This person was a Friar (father) in the Spanish Church?
Bartolomé de las Casas