Who?
What?
Where?
100
The man credited with discovery the Americas for Europe.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
System of knots and string the Inca used to keep records such as population counts, military numbers and taxes.
What is Quipu?
100
This city built in the Andes mountains by the Inca and abandoned in the 1500s.
Where is Machu Picchu?
200
The European colonizers who established the fur trade.
Who are the French?
200
This was an unfortunate thing brought to the Americas by the Europeans to the Native Americans, causing many of the natives to die.
What are diseases?
or What is smallpox, measles, influenza....?
200
Modern-day country in central America where the Mayans settled.
Where is Mexico?
300
The Spanish missionary who wrote an account describing the harsh treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish conquistadors.
Who is las Casas?
300
The legal system that allowed the Spanish to force Native Americans into labor and low status.
What is the encomienda (system)?
300
Region of North America where the Plains Indians lived.
Where is the Great Plains?
OR
Where is the west/midwest?
400
The Native American empire in South America that was destroyed when the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 1500s.
Who are the Inca?
400
The colonists were introduced to many of these agricultural products such as tobacco, sugar cane, maize (corn), cotton and more, which they used to sell for an easy profit in foreign markets.
What are cash crops? What is a cash crop?
400
Modern-day country where the Nazca people lived.
Where is Peru?
500
First European credited with circumnavigating the globe and reaching Asia by sailing west.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
500
This was a European economic policy that focused on acquiring resources like gold, furs or cash crops to increase exports to other countries.
What is mercantilism?
500
Where the Aztec civilization was located.
Where is Central America/mesoamerica?
600
Name for Spanish explorers sent to colonize the Americas for Spain.
Who are conquistadors?
600
Journey African people were forced to take in harsh conditions to be sold into slavery in the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
600
Region where the Iroquois tribes lived.
Where is North America?
OR
Where is the northeast?