Native Americans
Motives for Exploration
Columbian Exchange
Key Terms I
Key Terms II
100

The three main crops that allowed Native Americans to develop large societies. 

What are The Three Sisters (Maize, Corn, Squash) 

100

Name of the Italian navigator who "Discovered" the New World in the service of Spain. 

What is Columbus

100

The Columbian Exchange included:

Goods, Animals, Ideas, Diseases. Is Tobacco a New World or Old World Crop? 

What is New World 

100
Spanish Conquistador who took control of Tenochtitlan in 1521.  

Who is Hernan Cortez 

100

Who was the Spanish priest who is largely responsible to constructing the chain of missions up the California coast to Christianize the Native Americans. (1769, Out of Time Per. 1-but a good synthesis point). 

Who is Father Junipero Serra 

200

This tribe adapted to the dry environment of the Southwest and built multi storied and terraced dwellings.  

What are the Pueblos (New Mexico, Arizona) 

200
What are the three G's of Colonization

Explain each G. 

What are GOD, GOLD and GLORY

200

The Columbian Exchange included:

Goods, Animals, Ideas, Diseases. Are horses, cows and pigs animals from the New World or the Old World. 

What is Old World 

200

Name the treaty in which Spain and Portugal agreed to divide up the newly discovered lands in the Western Hemisphere. 

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

200

These European colonizers were able to establish trade relations with the Native Americans and they tried to convert them gently by living among them.  *Tip* Primarily involved in the FUR TRADE 

What are the French 

300

A political union of 5 individual Native American tribes consisting of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk. They lived in longhouses of up to 200 feet long.

What is the Iroquois Confederacy 

300

What European country established trading routes along Africa's Ivory Coast to trade salt, gold, slaves and spices from Asia.  

What is Portugal 

300

The Columbian Exchange included:

Goods, Animals, Ideas, Diseases. 

This famous Old World crop fed the rapid European population, primarily in places like Ireland.  

What is the Potato. 

300

What is the first successful European Settlement in what is now the United States. 

What is St. Augustine -1565 (Florida). 
300

This legend depicts the Spanish as cruel, intolerant and abusive towards the Native Americans.  This legend was widely promoted by protestant European rivals such as the British.  Wherever Spanish priest went, death followed.  

What is the Black Legend 

400

A Native American tribe from the Great Plains region consisting of nomadic farmers turned nomads who would move constantly in search of buffalo.  

What are the Lakota Sioux

400

This technological innovation triggered the Age of Exploration.  This ships were maneuverable and fast.  This ships had the capacity for sailing to windward and used for long voyages.  

What is the Caravel 

400

The Columbian Exchange included:

Goods, Animals, Ideas, Diseases. What Old World diseases devastated the Native American Populations? 

What are Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Malaria. 

400
Tern that defines a mixed person with Spanish and Indigenous Parents. 


If you answer this question you must also explain the CASTE SYSTEM.  

What is a Mestizo 
400

Spanish Missionary who defended the rights of the indigenous people of the Americas.  He published A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies to illustrate the horrors of the conquest and colonization.  His efforts led to legal reforms and debates over human rights.  

Who is Bartolome de Las Casas 

500

What is the region in which tribes like the Klamath created wooden Totem Poles to represent ancestors in the form of animals like the wolf, bear and eagle.  

What is the Pacific Northwest 

500

This navigation instrument allowed the Europeans to calculate their position at sea by measuring the angular distance in the horizon.  Making it easier to measure Latitude and Longitude. 

What is the Sextant 

500

What is the name of the trade cycle between Africa, Europe and the Americas.

What is the Triangular Trade

500

This Spanish labor system gave Indians and land to certain colonists in exchange for the promise to Christianize them. In practice, the conqueror used Indian labor as a form of "communal" slavery.  

What is the Encomienda System

500

Also known as Pope's Rebellion (1680).  This was an uprising of the Indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers near Santa Fe (New Mexico). The rebels raided the town and destroyed churches and killed the priests.  

What is The Pueblo Revolt