Native Societies
This crop originated in present-day Mexico and spread northward into the American Southwest.
What is maize?
European nations sought this valuable resource as one major reason for exploring the Americas.
What is gold or silver?
Three American crops were introduced to Europe through the Columbian Exchange.
What are: maize, potatoes, tomatoes, vanilla, etc...?
*other answers could be acceptable
This deadly disease devastated many Indigenous populations after European contact.
What is smallpox?
This Spanish labor system granted colonists access to Native American labor in exchange for supposed protection and Christian instruction.
What is the Encomienda System?
These three crops—maize, beans, and squash—formed an agricultural system used by groups such as the Iroquois Confederacy.
What are the Three Sisters?
This was the most successful revolt by an indigenous society in the Americas.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Spanish colonizers introduced these animals, which transformed transportation, warfare, hunting, and mobility for many Indigenous groups.
What are horses?
This mine in present-day Bolivia became a major source of American silver.
What is Potosi?
After native populations declined, these people would be used to replace their labor.
Who are African slaves?
The Shoshone adapted to this region’s arid environment by moving seasonally and relying on plants, small animals, and fish.
What is the Great Basin?
This motivation encouraged European powers to compete for trade routes, territory, and overseas colonies.
What is glory?
A maritime development that helped Europeans undertake longer and more precise voyages.
What is: caravel, astrolabe, improved maps?
*other answers could be acceptable*
Native Americans adopted this European technology, while Europeans adopted crops such as maize and tobacco.
What are metal tools/metal cookware/firearms?
These people held the most elite status in the Spanish Colonial racial hierarchy.
Who are the Peninsulares?
This society used advanced irrigation to grow maize, support large populations, and develop complex social structures in the Southwest.
What is the Pueblo people?
Spanish expeditions were accompanied by religious efforts intended to convert Indigenous peoples to this faith.
What is Roman Catholicism?
This crop did the most to transform the agricultural, social, and ecological landscape of the Americas.
What is sugar cane?
These two large American civilizations were conquered by Spanish Conquistadors.
The system was used to convert native peoples to Catholicism. It lasted into the 1820s, especially in CA.
What is the Mission System?
This society, based in the Pacific Northwest, hunted sea mammals to adapt to their harsh environment.
Who are the Inuit?
This 1494 agreement divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Out of the Columbian Exchange came this leg of the Triangular Trade, where African slaves were transported to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
This man argued on behalf of humane treatment for Native peoples.
*"kinder gentler* conquering
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
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