Columbus
This is the thing Columbus was most interested in finding.
What is gold?
This is the name of the tribe the Europeans encountered in the Bahamas in 1492.
Who were the Arawaks?
The first person to write about Columbus.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
What is the 1490s?
This was the fate of many enslaved Native Americans sent to Europe.
What is death?
Columbus claimed to find lots of this when he returned to Europe.
What is gold?
The Europeans who actually first encountered Native Americans.
Who are the vikings/danish/norsemen?
History is most often written about these groups
What is governments, conquerors, leaders, men?
The settlement of Jamestown was founded around this time.
What is the early 1600s?
What is enslaved them?
(or slavery)
This is the type of warfare Europeans used on native populations.
What is terror?
This word was often used by Europeans to (erroneously) describe Native Americans.
What is savages?
This affects what an author chooses to include in their writing of history.
The date when the first Europeans landed in North America.
What is 1000?
Arawaks resorted to this after being tortured and murdered by Columbus and his men.
What is mass suicide?
The shape Columbus thought the world was.
What is round?
This is roughly how long it took the native population of Haiti to halve.
What is 2 years?
The result of reading biased history.
What is misinformation/spreading biases/missing the whole picture?
The century in which the English were also colonizing and mistreating the Irish.
What is the 16th centruy?
This was the result of natives refusing to send back survivors of Jamestown.
What is destroying their village?
The two advantages Europeans had in warfare over Native Americas.
What are iron weapons and gunpowder.
Native American culture was arguably 'more advanced' than European culture in this way.
What is more egalitarian or equal toward women and children?
Zinn encourages us to look for this in history rather just studying warfare.
What is moments of kindness and courage?
The decade when Native American tribes had to start negotiating with the United States government.
What is the 1770s?
The thing brought by the Europeans that killed the most Native Americans.
What is disease?