Native American Societies
These people built complex societies in the American Southwest.
Who are the Pueblo (Ancestral Puebloans)?
He was the first European to reach the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Columbian Exchange involved the transfer of these between the Old and New Worlds.
What are plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas?
This Spanish conqueror defeated the Aztecs in Mexico.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This APUSH historical thinking skill involves comparing developments across regions.
What is comparison?
These societies in the Northeast used a confederation for political unity.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This country dominated early exploration and colonization of South America.
What is Spain?
This deadly disease devastated Native American populations.
What is smallpox?
This system allowed Spanish settlers to extract labor from Native Americans.
What is the encomienda system?
This term refers to interpreting events from the viewpoint of people at the time.
What is historical context (or historical thinking)?
Native societies in this region relied heavily on bison hunting.
What is the Great Plains?
This maritime advancement allowed for longer transoceanic voyages.
What is the caravel (or improved navigation tools)?
These two crops from the Americas significantly boosted European diets.
What are corn (maize) and potatoes?
This religious order often led Spanish missionary efforts.
Who are the Jesuits (or Catholic missionaries)?
This continent experienced massive demographic and cultural changes due to colonization.
What is the Americas (or North and South America)?
These people built large mounds and complex trade networks in the Mississippi River Valley.
Who are the Mississippian cultures?
This treaty divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Horses, cattle, and pigs came from this part of the world.
What is Europe (the Old World)?
This rebellion of Native Americans challenged Spanish control in New Mexico in 1680.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
One major similarity among Native American groups prior to 1491.
What is a connection to nature/spiritual beliefs/community-based structures?
The diversity of Native cultures was largely shaped by this factor.
What is the environment/geography?
This term refers to mixed Spanish and Indigenous ancestry.
What is mestizo?
This economic system increased European wealth through colonies and trade.
What is mercantilism?
This term refers to the blending of Indigenous and European cultures.
What is cultural syncretism?
One major difference between English and Spanish colonization goals.
What is the English sought settlement and economic independence; the Spanish focused on extraction of wealth and conversion?