Native Americans
Native American Societies where each group traveled around from place to place and hunted for their food are described as this____________
What is nomadic? What is hunter gatherer?
This large hull ship which allowed for larger journeys led to longer voyages by the Spanish and Portugese.
What is the Caravel?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Italian Explorer sailed for Spain and enslaved the natives in the Caribbean when he found them.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade took place between which 3 continents
What are North America, South America, and Africa
These crops allowed Native Americans to form large settled societies _______ ___________ __________
What are Corn, Squash and Beans?
The Spanish were originally looking for a trade route to this continent _____________
What is Asia? (Many goods such as silk and other spices were valued for trade)
The Europeans brought this disease over to the New World ________________
What is small pox
Hernan Cortes conquered this South American Empire with the help of disease
Who are the Aztecs?
Over ________ million Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas through the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
10 Million
What are Pueblo?
Christopher Columbus captured the Arawak and Taino Indians and made them mine the earth to search for this ____________
What is gold?
This food came over from the New World to the Old World which led to an increased population in Europe due to its caloric denseness.
What is the potato?
Francisco Pizarro conquered this South American native Empire located in Modern day Peru
Who are the Incas?
African Kings fought rival nations and captured other Africans. They sold their captives to the Europeans for _____ and ___________
What is Rum and Guns
Native Americans could best be described as a homogenous group with similar beliefs cultures and ways of life. True/False
What is false? Native Americans were a very diverse and they had many different beliefs, cultures, and ways of life.
The English were fueled by a desire to explore the Americas due to ______________
What is competition and a desire to expand their empire?
This crop which was labor intensive, came from the Old World/Asia to the New World and indirectly led to the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is sugar cane?
This labor system gave each Spanish colonizer a number of natives to control/work for them as indentured servants.
What is the Enconmienda system?
Africans were originally forcibly brought to the
Americas because _________________
There was a need for labor due to high Native American deaths.
This is called ___________
What is matrilineal?
The Spanish found the Native Americans religions and cultures to be uncivilized, so they sought to convert them to __________
What is Christianity?
What were 3 negative effects of the Columbian Exchange and 1 positive effect?
Answers will vary
What were two effects of the Las Castas system on the Native Population in the Americas?
Answers will vary
What were three negative effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa?
Population loss, economic collapse, instability and wars.