Native American Societies
This main staple crop significantly helped to develop Native American civilizations.
What is Maize? (corn)
This country funded Columbus's 1492 voyage.
What was Spain?
The main difference between the encomienda and the asiento systems is that the encomienda system used Natives and the asiento system used this group.
Who are Africans?
This region had cash crops and large plantations.
What is the Southern Colonies?
The Columbian Exchange led to the introduction of this animal to the Americas, which primarily helped nomadic tribes.
What is the horse?
This region had nomadic tribes who relied heavily on the Buffalo.
What is the Great Plains?
To facilitate financing of oceanic voyages, these businesses in which shares of a company's stock are owned by shareholders were created.
What are joint-stock companies?
This leg of the Triangular Trade took many Africans to the Americas in inhumane conditions.
What is the Middle Passage?
Mercantilism is based on the idea that colonies exist for this reason.
What is to benefit the mother country (economic self-sufficiency)?
This deadly disease devastated Native populations.
What is smallpox?
These three large-scale civilizations were prominent in Mesoamerica prior to European contact.
Who are the Mayas, Aztecs, & Incas?
This is true goal of Christopher Columbus' voyage to America.
What is to find a sea route to Asia?
The Spanish Caste system sorted the status of diverse population by birthplace and this.
What is blood/lineage?
This cash crop became a major export from Virginia.
What is tobacco?
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztecs using advanced European technology, such as metal equipment and cannons.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Northeastern Native American groups practiced this type of agriculture.
What is the "three sister" farming? (corn, beans, squash).
The Treaty of Tordesillas, overseen by the Pope, divided the New World between these two countries.
Who are Spain and Portugal?
This is name for an American Indian and Spanish mix in the caste system.
Indentured servitude declined after this 1676 rebellion.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This Native American leader resisted English settlement in New England (1675).
Who is Metacom (King Philip)?
This is the capital of the Aztec empire spanning Mexico and Central America.
What is Tenochtitlán?
This Portuguese prince was a central figure in portuguese exploration and opened a navigational school.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
This system led to the forced relocation of millions of Africans.
What is Slavery?
The Middle Colonies were known for this nickname due to their grain production.
What is the "breadbasket"?
This conflict involved Pueblo resistance to Spanish rule in 1680.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?