Pre-Europeans
Most common way of getting food and resources.
What is hunting and gathering?
The first British colony in the Americas
A form of labor where an individual is under contract to work without a salary to repay an indenture or loan within a certain timeframe.
What is an Indentured servant?
To live on the move, not having any set home/town
What is nomadic?
The three main reasons that Europeans were looking to conquer the 'new world', commonly referred to as the 'Three Gs'
What are Gold, Glory, and God?
A disease brought by the Spanish to the new world and it was responsible for killing five to eight million natives.
Commonly seen as the most powerful tribe in the Americas pre-Europeans.
Who were the Aztecs?
A European domesticated animal used for labor that had a major impact on the hunting and life style of those living on the great planes
What is a horse?
The system of buying, selling, and transporting Africans as slaves.
What is the Transatlantic slave trade?
Ancestor of corn that was cultivated by the indigenous people.
What is Maize?
The group of islands where Columbus first landed.
What are the Bahamas?
A Spanish colonial system that consisted of plantation based agriculture and the extraction of natural resources and was run off forced Indigenous labor.
What was the Econmienda system?
Main source of meat found on the Great Plains
What are Bison?
The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World of Europe and Africa and the New World of the Americas.
What is the Columbian exchange?
A strict hierarchy based off race made by the Spanish during the colonial times.
What is the Casta System?