Explorers
They were the first Europeans in North America?
Who are the Vikings?
Trade network that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangle Trade?
These indigenous group in North America lived in village bands that included the Algonquin and Iroquois nations.
Who are the Eastern Woodlands Natives?
This thanksgiving animal was indigenous to the new world.
What is the turkey?
This country claimed lots of land in North America.
Who is France?
He named and claimed Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America
What is the Middle Passage?
This had a devastating effect on Indigenous American groups causing illness and death..
What is Smallpox?
This is a widespread exchange of exotic and lucrative goods from the New World to the Old World.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
When the Spanish monarchy abolished this system, Spanish landlords in New Spain turned to African slaves to meet their labor needs.
What is encomienda?
He was a Spanish explorer, the governor of Puerto Rico and searched for the fountain of youth.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
An alliance of five northeastern Indigenous peoples.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
tribes of the Great Plains lived in these because they were nomadic and could be easily set up and taken down.
What are Tipis?
This group first enslaved Africans were brought to the New World in 1518.
Who are the Spanish?
This brutal voyage brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and Americas was the
What is the Middle Passage?
He conquered the Aztecs in 1519?
Who is Hernan Cortes?
A Spanish explorer-conqueror of the Americas
Who are the Conquistadors?
These people are of mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry.
Who are the Mestizos?
This food was not indigenous to Ireland but when brought to the old world allowed the Irish population to increase and have plenty of food.
What is potatoes?
The Natives in this area hunted buffalo, had an environment of immense grasslands, and
used horses after European introduction.
Who are the Great Plains Natives?
This country first moved into the North American Southwest in an effort to find Gold.
Who are the Spanish?
American Indian group of the Southwest who build complex multi-story adobe villages.
Who are the Pubelos?
This Native American group built and lived in longhouses.
Who are the Iroquois?
This island was the greatest sugar-producing colony in America, it now held the largest West Indian slave population, and it was also quickly becoming the world’s largest producer of coffee
What is Saint Domingue or Haiti?
This Confederacy had the Great Law of Peace that established a confederation with representatives.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?