Native Society
This society developed in South America
What is Inca?
He was the first European explorer with a lasting impact to land in the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This was the year Columbus first set sail for the Americas.
What was 1492?
This metal was a driving factor for early Spanish conquest of native societies.
What is gold or silver?
These wiped out millions of natives due to a lack of resistance.
What were diseases?
This crop allowed for the development of complex society in the Americas.
What is corn?
These two countries were the first to lay claim to land in the Americas.
What were Portugal and Spain?
This animal largely influenced French policy towards natives through its lucrative fur trade.
What is beaver?
These Spaniards went to the Americas to conquer land for wealth and power.
Who were the Conquistadors?
This crop fueled the Caribbean economy and grew massive plantations around it.
What is sugarcane?
Name 3 Indian tribes.
Who are Hohokam, Anasazi, Pueblo, Iroquois, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, etc.
This Arab invention helped Europeans navigate to the Americas.
What was the sailing compass?
The experience many African slaves had with this cash crop made them valuable to colonists in the early South.
What is rice?
This system put Spanish landowners on top of native and African slaves on large plantations.
What was the encomienda system?
This system of trade led to the spread of slaves throughout the Americas.
What was the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This culture was known for building earthen mounds and longhouses.
What is the Adena-Hopewell culture?
This event sparked religious wars and Catholic desires to explore new lands.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
This priest helped to end native slavery and argued against the mistreatment of native Americans in Spanish colonies.
Who was Bartolome De Las Cases?
This explorer conquered the Inca Empire.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
These two American crops quickly became staples of the European diet.
What are corn and potatoes?
This native language was prominent in the Northeast.
What is Algonquian?
This explorer laid the foundation for English claims in the Americas and explored Newfoundland.
These two tribes allied with the French against the English to maintain autonomy.
Who were the Delaware and Shawnee?
This system made Spanish subjects pay a tax for each enslaved African they imported to the colonies.
What was the Asiento system?
These people were the indigenous inhabitants of the land that Columbus conquered.
Who were the Taino?