Native American Societies
This civilization built its capital at Tenochtitlan, present day Mexico City.
Who are the Aztec (Mexica)?
This religion dominated European society and politics during the period of early exploration.
What is Christianity/Catholicism?
This term describes the exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
This was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This religious group founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who are the Puritans?
This agricultural development allowed many Native American societies to establish permanent settlements.
These are examples of motivations for exploration.
Gold, natural resources, religion, glory, land
These diseases devastated American populations after European contact.
What are smallpox, measles, influenza, dysentery
This cash crop helped make Virginia economical successful.
What is tobacco?
This religious group founded the Plymouth Colony.
Who are the Pilgrims/separatists?
This was the primary staple crop that supported many Native American societies in Mesoamerica and North America
What is maize (corn)?
This monk began the Protestant Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
This was one major demographic consequences of European colonization for Native Americans
What is massive population decline, largely because of disease and warfare?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This was the reason for the Puritans to establish the New England colonies.
What is religious freedom?
These Native American societies are examples of complex civilizations that developed large cities, social hierarchies, and extensive trade networks before European arrival.
Who were the Aztec, Mayans, and Incas
This economic theory encouraged European nations to seek colonies and control valuable resources and trade.
What is mercantilism?
This conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
This group was the first colonial self-government.
What was the House of Burgesses?
This governor of the Puritans believed that their settlement represented God.
Who was John Winthrop?
This society inhabited the Midwest region.
The Cahokia/Mound Builders
This event led to the end of Spanish domination in the New World.
What is the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
What Portuguese explorer sailed around Africa and to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
These practices by the Puritans were discouraged by Roger Williams.
What is taking Native American land and state sponsored religion?
This religious belief was held by both the Puritans and John Calvin.
What is predestination?