Indigenous America
Cultivation of this plant spread throughout the Americas and was a staple food product in Native American diets.
What is maize?
These vessels were typically about 50-60 feet long and had a narrow hull with a shallow draft, which made them well-suited for sailing in shallow waters and for navigating in close quarters.
What is a caravel?
Name at least three vegetables, found in the Americas, that were transplanted to the Eastern Hemisphere as part of the Columbian Exchange.
What is (answers will vary)?
A system for dividing residents of New Spain into a social hierarchy based on race.
This Spanish priest petitioned the Spanish King of Spain to end Indian enslavement, which led to the end of the encomienda system and beginning of the repartimiento.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
This empire was known for its widespread, interconnecting roads as well as the cultivation of the potato and llamas.
What is the Inca?
What is the astrolabe?
This feudal arrangement gave land to Spanish colonists while requiring local natives to work for them; it quickly became extremely abusive.
What is the encomienda system?
This group of people cultivated positive interactions with Native American empires and often intermarried into their tribes.
Who were the French?
One theory suggest the ancestors of Native Americans came over to the Western Hemisphere by crossing this geographical formation tens of thousands of years ago.
What is the Bering Sea land bridge?
His initial impression of the native Taíno people contained the line, "They manifest the greatest affection towards all of us, exchanging valuable things for trifles, content with the very least thing or nothing at all."
Who was Columbus?
Name both answers: the Columbian Exchange technically began in a specific year and with a specific event.
What is 1493 and Columbus's second voyage?
This 1494 treaty, declared by the pope, split the world into Spanish and Portuguese zones of influence.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Some natives allied with the Spanish to overthrow this empire.
Who were the Aztecs?
What are beans, corn, and squash?
This man's followers insisted that "it seemed to us that it was not advantageous for Your Majesties’ service to do as [Governor] Diego Velázquez had ordered ... to do, which was to trade for all the gold we could, and, having obtained it, to return to the island of Cuba."
Who was Hernán Cortés?
Name four species of livestock, found in the Eastern Hemisphere, that were transplanted to the Western Hemisphere as part of the Columbian Exchange.
What is the horse, pig, cow, and honeybee?
In his view, Indigenous Americans "waged continual and ferocious war upon one another with such fierceness that they did not consider a victory at all worthwhile unless they sated their monstruous hunger with the flesh of their enemies…"
Who was Sepulveda?
This Indigenous nation, led by Wahunsonacock, has often been misleadingly portrayed in popular media; for instance, they were not oppressively patriarchal before Europeans arrived.
Who are the Powhatan?
This religious movement created tension and wars in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, prompting exploration to the Western Hemisphere for economic and political reasons.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
King Nzinga Mbemba of Kongo was referring to this tragic and disruptive development when he wrote to the King of Portugal, "so great, Sir, is the corruption and licentiousness that our country is being completely depopulated.”
What is the enslavement and capture of Western African peoples by Europeans?
This piquant family of plant, known scientifically as Capsicum annuum, originated in several places throughout the Americas before arriving in the East in the late 16th century; in China, it's known as tien tsin.
What is the pepper?
This euphemistically named economic system involved the transportation of captured Africans to the Americas; the shipment of raw materials to Europe; and the manufacture of finished goods from those materials, which were then traded in Africa in exchange for humans held in bondage.
What is the triangular trade?
The English did not intermingle with the natives much because they brought over this social unit.
What is their families?