Vocab 1
The exchange of plants, animals,
diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean
between Europe and the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
French fur trappers who learned many
skills from the American Indians with whom they
worked and lived
Coureurs de Bois
How did the Columbian Exchange affect many American Indian
groups?
Europeans bought over deadly diseases. European diseases wiped out 90 percent of the native population.
The relationship between the French and the natives.
Business Partners/ Not besties but also didn't hate each other
How New Amsterdam was different from other European colonies.
Diverse Population = different religions, languages, and types of people. FREEDOM
The treatment of people as
property. People who are denied freedom in this
way are said to be enslaved.
Slavery
The major motivation for European exploration.
Explorers were motivated by money
About slavery in general in the Americas.
This high death rate led Europeans to enslave
Africans to work in the Americas.
Describe what life was lived for the first Jamestown colonist.
The climate and environment were challenging for the first colony
What is the modern day name of New Netherland?
New York
Spanish soldier-explorers,
especially those who conquered the native
peoples of Mexico and Peru.
Conquistadors
How Marco Polo encouraged European exploration.
The book he wrote
The main goal of Spanish conquistadors who went to the Americas.
To find land. Spain wanted to be bigger
Why did the London Company send colonists to Jamestown,
Virginia
To make money. They thought it was gold there
A new settlement or territory
established and governed by a country in another land
Colony
The goal of the first European explorers.
Find water routes to Asia
The main goal of the Spanish missionaries.
Wanted to spread religion (Christianity)
What event helped end conflict between the Jamestown colonists
and the Powhatnas.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe
A person who travels to a territory or
community in order to make converts to his or her
religion.
Missionary
What was the effect of Christopher Columbus' voyages to the
Americans?
The voyages of Columbus triggered a great transfer of
people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.
The two Spanish groups that settled in the Americas.
Missionary and Conquistadors
The most important economic activity between the French and the
Dutch.
Trading