🟦 Indigenous Peoples (VUS.1a)
🟨 Explorers & Technology (VUS.1b)
🟩 Religion & Exploration (VUS.1c)
🟥 Atlantic Trade System (VUS.1d)
100

This region played a major role in early American trade and settlement.

Northeast

100

Explorer who opened the Americas to Europe

Columbus

100

Movement challenging Catholic authority

Reformation

100

Region exporting manufactured goods

Europe

200

This river valley served as a major trade and transportation corridor.

  • Mississippi River Valley
200

Explorer linked to Florida exploration

Leon

200

Catholic response to Protestantism

Counter-Reformation

200

Raw material traded from the Americas to Europe  

Tobacco / Cotton / Sugar

300

Primary factor shaping Indigenous cultural regions

Environmental 

300

Explorer of the Southwest

Coronado

300

Result of Spain’s Reconquista

Catholicism

300

Continent where enslaved people were captured

Africa

400

Natural resource common in forested Indigenous regions

Fish /Plants / wood/  

400

Navigation tool for direction

Compass

400

Institution strengthened by the Counter-Reformation

Church

400

Africa’s primary Atlantic trade export

Labor / Enslavement

500

What most influenced Indigenous daily life

adaptation

500

Tool used to calculate latitude

Astrolabe

500

Cause of religious rivalry between Spain and England

Reformation

500

Region benefiting most from Atlantic trade

Europe