Natives
These are people with mixed indian and European heritage
Mestizo
Their purpose was to convert and civilize to native americans
Spanish Missions
3 crops from the Americans that ended up being staple crops in europe
Corn, beans and squash (3 sister farming)
Man who stood up for the rights on Natives
Bartolome de las casas
The area where Columbus landed; he named his first fort Navidad
Hispaniola
People of mixed white and black ancestry
Mulatto
In the Spanish colonies, those who were born in Europe
Pennisularies
The crop transformed nomadic hunter-gatherer socities into settled farm communities
Maize
Lived in permanent longhouses that had a rich diet based on agriculture, hunting, and fishing
Northeast natives
Pope rebellion/pueblo revolt
a later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture and hunting, living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests.
Iroquis
A spanish conqueror of the Americas
Conquistador
Lasted from the 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the america. 98% of Africans were sent to the Caribbean south and Central America.
Atlantic slave trade/Middle Passage
The most complex indian communities living in latin america in the area kown as meso-america, destroyed by spanish conquistadors
Mayan, Inca and Aztecs
An economic system in which the colonies exist to enrich the mother country; attempt to export to colonies more than they import
Mercantilism
5 tribes were the seminoles, creeks, choctaws, chickasaws and cherokees; also called "mound-builders". farmed heavily and moved around little, but not nomadic; warlike.
Southeast Native americans
The argument between Bartolome de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda over the treatment of indians by the Spanish.
Valladolid Debate
Divided the trade routes to Asia; spanish gets the route across the Atlantic and Portugal gets the route around Africa. Also, Spain got a lot of land in the new world and Portugal got present-day Brazil
Tready of tordesillas
Tribes that were nomadic OR farmers/traders; hunted buffalo, raised maize, beans and squash
Great plains indians
a way of supplying fresh water to an area of farmland
Irrigation system
people who lived in the driest region and adapted to the environment through irrigation, cliff dwellings, adobe apartments, and pithouses.
Southwest native americans
Animal introduced by the Spanish that changed the lifestyle of the Native Americans, especially in regards to hunting Bison in the Great Plains
Horses (and other domesticated animals)
A grant of land made by the Spanish to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it; essentially set up for slavery for native americans in exchange for labor, the Native Americans were converted to Christianity for salvation
Encomienda
Native american people historically settled in the southeastern US (principally georgia, the carolinas and eastern tennesse) linguistically they are part of the iroquoian-language family
Cherokee
kow dam designed to back up or divert water
Checkdam