Before Columbus
a member of one of the groups of people who were living in North, Central and South America before Europeans arrived
What is a Native American?
An Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The four major European countries that came to America in the 16th and 17th century
What are the English, the French, the Dutch, and the Spanish?
The four cultural differences between Native Americans and European colonists
Land, Trade and Property, Gender Roles, Religion
The war that destroyed a 40 year peace between European colonists and Native Americans
What is King Philip's War?
areas or regions where similar groups of Native American peoples shared similar living conditions and characteristics
What are Native American Cultural Areas?
The period from the early 15th century into the early 17th century when Europeans looked for new trading routes and partners
What is the Age of Exploration?
These are the three overall reasons that European countries came to the Americas
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
Europeans believed individuals could own ________, while Native Americans believed in communal ownership
What is land?
Another name for King Philip's War
What is Metacom's Rebellion?
a group of Native Americans which originally included 5 tribes consisting of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca peoples in North America
What is the Iroquois confederacy?
The three ships that Columbus used to sail across the Atlantic Ocean
What are the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina?
The French wanted to expand their ______ trade by going to the Americas
What is fur?
European beliefs about ____ and ________ were to keep for yourself, while Native Americans believed in giving to those who need it
Trade and Property
What is deadliest?
In order to understand different Native American groups, historians have divided them into __________, rough groupings of similar people who shared similar living conditions
What are Cultural Areas?
The island Columbus and his crew landed on when trying to find a new route to India
What are the Bahamas?
The Spanish forced the Natives to adopt this religion
What is Christianity?
Europeans emphasized the father in ________________, while Native Americans emphasized the mother
What are gender roles?
What is Christianity?
The ten cultural areas of Native Americans
the Arctic, the Subarctic, the Northeast, the Southeast, the Plains, the Southwest, the Great Basin, California, the Northwest Coast, and the Plateau
The general trade of people, plants, animals and diseases back and forth the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Columbian exchange?
The Dutch hired this explorer, who renamed the Hudson river after himself
Europeans were exclusive about ___________, while Native Americans were inclusive
What is religion?
European colonists stole ______ from Native Americans, which led to the war
What is land?