Native Americans
The belief that all elements of nature are sacred and have souls.
What is Animism?
The religion being spread in the New World.
What is Christianity?
The continents associated with the New World.
What is North and South America?
The continents associated with the Old World.
What is Europe, Asia, and Africa?
Name three European Nations influencing exploration.
What is Spain, England, Portugal, Dutch, France?
Each tribe used these different materials to build housing appropriate to their lifestyle.
What is local/available resources? (e.g. animal hides, wood)
The means by which the Europeans came to the Americas.
What are advanced sailing tools and techniques?
A food taken to Europe because it had more calories, nutrients, and was easy to grow.
What is Corn and Potatoes?
The disease(s) taken to the New World that killed about 50% of the Native American population.
What is Smallpox, Malaria, and Influenza?
The term used to describe the transfer of animals, plants, people, diseases, and technology between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The term used to describe a lifestyle of constant movement.
What is Nomadic lifestyle?
The original motivation for exploration.
What are trade routes?
A plant that had a negative impact on the Europeans because chewing it had bad health consequences.
What is tobacco?
Domesticated animals brought to the New World because they were easy to raise.
What are Cattle, Pigs, and Horses?
The reason Native Americans died from disease so quickly.
What is their lack of immunity?
Native Americans belief about land ownership.
What is the belief that land belonged to everyone and cannot be owned?
The three "G's" of European exploration motivation.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
A common crop from the New World usually associated with Italians.
What are Tomatoes?
The crop brought to the Americas that from Asia.
What is rice?
The Europeans turned Natives into this to work in their mines and on their farms.
What are slaves?
The theory for how the Native Americans got to the Americas.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
The term for creating settlements and communities, often by force, in foreign places for the benefit of power.
What is Colonization?
This animal from the New World was easy to catch and breed which made it easy to take back to the Old World.
What are Turkeys?
The technology and resources taken to the New World to advance weapons, tools, and combat.
What are Guns and metals?
Hernan Cortes was able to conquer the Aztec people because this had weakened their populations.
What is disease?