This Native tribe dominated large parts of Central Mexico in the 14th and 16th centuries.
What is the Aztec?
100
The introduction of this animal by the Spanish led to greater mobilization for Natives in the Southwest U.S.
What is the horse?
100
This conquistador is most known for conquering the Aztecs in Central Mexico.
Who is Cortes?
100
This new labor source from Africa was in high demand as a result of the death of the majority of the native population (Spain) and labor intensive crops.
What are African slaves?
100
This cash crop helped the British make it big in the Chesapeake colonies.
What is tobacco?
200
This tribe was primarily located in Northeast Canada.
What is the Iroquois?
200
This killed an estimated 90% of the Native American population.
What is smallpox or diseases?
200
Spain was concerned primarily with this resource before switching focus to Christian conversion.
What is gold and silver?
200
The form of slavery involves a contract for a period of time in which the person works in exchange of food, housing, and transport.
What is indentured servitude?
200
This European country was interested in trading for furs in Canada and along the Mississippi River.
What is France?
300
This tribal group spread along the Atlantic Coast.
What is the Algonquin?
300
How Europeans benefited from the introduction of new crops into their diets.
What is a longer life span?
300
What happens when there is an abundance of a resource and the value of that resource falls, as the Spanish experienced with gold and silver.
What is inflation?
300
This Native American daughter of Powhatan married a British man and assisted settlers at Jamestown colony.
Who is Pocahontas?
300
This European country had no interest in converting the Native populations to Christianity.
What is the Netherlands (the Dutch)?
400
Tribes in Mexico were responsible for cultivating a crop that eventually spread to the Southwest U.S.
What is maize/corn?
400
This piece of technology was widely traded between the Native Americans and the Europeans, and resulted in the hunting of larger animals.
What is the gun?
400
The Spanish organized the Native populations into this type of social structure.
What is a caste?
400
This system by Spanish Franciscan monks forced Natives to convert to Catholicism and work as agricultural laborers.
What is the mission system?
400
This European Country had many colonies along the Atlantic coast that were settled for a variety of economic and religious reasons.
What is England?
500
Columbus first landed on this Caribbean island where he encountered the Taino people.
What is Hispaniola (Dominican Republic/Haiti)?
500
This European crop thrived in the tropical climate of the Caribbean and
What is sugarcane?
500
A plantation-style system implemented by the Spanish using local labor to extract natural resources like gold and silver from the Americas.
What is the encomienda system?
500
This Native American revolt in the Southwest U.S. managed to expel the Spanish for 12 years before their return.
What is the Pueblo Revolt (Pope's Rebellion)?
500
This economic theory was the working theory for many European colonizers whereby a colony tries to gain wealth with countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing its stores of gold and silver.