Social
What are 3 negative long term consequences of European contact?
Accepted answers:
Genocide (by war and disease)
Loss of land
Dislocation
Loss of culture
Discrimination
Native enslavement (brief)
This role was very important as it also helped transport culture and news across the Americas.
What is the role of merchants and travelers before European contact?
Indigenous tribes practiced _____, the worship of multiple gods?
What is polytheism?
Many scientific developments before European contact were created in this part of America because the other part was often nomadic in nature.
What is South America?
In the years leading up to European contact, Indigenous peoples in the Americas had certain gender roles. What is the term coined by Indigenous people to describe someone who didn’t fit the mold and expressed gender transcendence?
What is “two-spirit”?
The northern part of America often traded with the southern parts, due to different materials and resources found in these different areas only.
What is trade patterns in America leading up to European contact?
Name 3 Christian denominations that were practiced in Colonial America
Accepted answers:
Baptists
Methodists
Catholics
Lutherans
Quakers
Anglicans
Congregationalists
German Pietists
Indigenous nation with one of the first written languages used for record keeping and communication, with a similar calendar system in use for agriculture?
The Mayans
Why couldn’t Europeans keep enslaved Indigenous people?
Indigenous people had extensive knowledge of the land and communicated with one another to make an easy escape.
The numerous goods produced on American soil such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton lead to millions of Africans being brought to the Americas as slaves.
What is the long-term change in trade after European contact with the Americas?
How did land loss impact religion within Indigenous societies?
Accepted Answers:
Loss of sacred sites
Disruption of rituals and other religions practices since it was all very nature-oriented.
A lot of technologies and scientific achievements that occurred in the Americas were overlooked by these people and dismissed and destroyed after European contact.
What are Europeans?
What is the main way in which the Maya and Inca government differ?
The Mayan government was decentralized, Inca was centralized.
They aided in the economic and commercial expansion and trade between Europe and the Americas.
What is a lasting impact from traders and merchants after European contact?
In the late 19th century, the US federal government the Code of _____
Offenses to punish Indigenous people who practiced their own religions rather than christianity
What is Indian?
The union of the five tribes Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora was known as the blank Confederacy and was one of the most important cross-cultural exchanges in the Americas before European contact.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?