Native american tribes
There were the first people to live on the North American continent even before European explorers "discovered" it.
Who are the Native Americans?
He attempted to establish a settlement at Roanoke Island off the North Carolina coast in 1587, but the venture failed.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
This treaty signed by Spain and Portugal decided how to divide Columbus’s discoveries in the New World.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
An epidemic that ravaged Europe in the mid-14th century and caused an economic decline. It killed ⅓ of Europe’s population.
What is the Black Death?
The Native American civilization in present-day Mexico known for being the last of the great Mesoamerican cultures before the arrival of the Europeans. They built temple pyramids, made human sacrifices for religion, and had sophisticated agricultural techniques.
Who were the Aztecs?
The term used to describe European explorers who traveled to the New World and established land claims for Spain and Portugal.
Who are conquistadors?
People also known as the First Nations or Eastern Woodland tribes. They lived in what are today the eastern United States and Canada and the most prominent groups formed the Iroquois Confederacy.
Who are the Northeastern Peoples?
Established in 1587. Called the Lost Colony. It was financed by Sir Walter Raleigh, and its leader in the New World was John White. All the settlers disappeared, and historians still don't know what became of them.
What is Roanoke?
A matrilineal society who was a group of five Native American tribes in present-day New York.
What was the Iroquois Confederacy?
The Portuguese prince who helped guide the Age of Discovery and the Atlantic Slave trade. He is credited for furthering knowledge of geography and starting a school for navigation in Portugal.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
An early group of people who lived west of the Rocky Mountains and east of the Sierra Nevada mountains in what is today the western United States. They included such groups as the Paiute and Shoshone.
Who are the Great Basin Peoples?
The Spanish crown established this legal system to divide the Native labor force to improve the mining industry. The Spanish required tribute in exchange for teaching the Natives about Roman Catholic faith. The system was intended to be mutually beneficial, but it ended up turning into slavery on plantations.
What is the Encomienda system?
Warrior horsemen who were a section of the Great Sioux Nation and led much of the resistance against European settlement in the Northern Plains in the 1600s.
What is the Lakota Sioux?
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire at Tenochtitlan in 1521 and claimed Mexico on Spain’s behalf.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
The oldest settlement by the Europeans and African-Americans that has been continuously occupied till today. It was founded by Spanish soldier Pedro Menendez.
What is St.Augustine?
A religious revolution that swept through Europe. It resulted in a new branch of Christianity called Protestantism.
What is The Protestant Reformation?
The Indigenous tribe that lived in Eastern Canada for over 8000 years before Europeans arrived in North America and were among the first Natives to make alliances with the French.
Who were the Algonquian peoples?
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire of Peru in 1533. He began shipping gold and silver back to Spain, resulting in inflation in Europe.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The strip of land connecting Siberia and Alaska during the last Ice Age, allowing people to migrate from Asia to North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
It was the first moral debate in history in which Europeans discussed the unfair treatment of the Native Americans. One side argued that the Natives were not humane and should not be treated like humans. The other side argued that the Natives were people and deserved to have rights.
What is the Valladolid debate?