Vocabulary
What does the term Slavery mean?
The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved.
Where do scientists think that the earliest people in the Americas migrated from?
Siberia
What was the main goal of the Spanish conquistadors who came to the Americas?
To conquer a large empire for Spain
What Spanish explorer established a Spanish settlement in Florida, while searching for the fountain of youth?
Juan Ponce de León
What were the Europeans looking for on the Indigenous lands?
Riches, Silver, Gold, wealth
What does the term migrate mean?
To move from one place and establish a home in a new place. A move of many people is called a migration, and the people who move are called migrants.
What brought the Siberian hunters to the Americas?
The hunt for food.
What inspired the Europeans to explore the lands of Asia?
Marco Polo's book.
How did the Siberian people get to America?
What was being exchanged during the Columbian exchange?
Plants, Animals, people, diseases
What does the term conquistador mean?
Spanish soldiers who accompanied ship captains and merchants in the Americas. These soldiers took land and resources from the Indigenous people of Mexico and Peru, usually by violent means.
The arrival of Spanish colonizers had what kind of impact on the Indigenous people?
Devastating
Who sponsored Christopher Columbus' trips?
The king and Queen of Spain.
What happens during the ice age?
Most of the earth's surface is covered with ice causing the sea level to drop.
What group of people was traded the most in the Columbian exchange?
Africans
What does the term revolt mean?
a violent action in opposition to a government or law
What caused the wipeout of 90% of Indigenous tribes?
Diseases that the Europeans brought over.
By force and violence
They were Tainos.
What religion did the missionaries force the indigenous people to convert to?
Catholic
What where pueblos?
A village of apartment-like buildings made of stone and adobe rising four or five stories high
How was Poce De Leon killed after he returned with 200 mean?
He was shot and killed by a poisoned arrows from one of the Indigenous
What old European tale sparked Spanish expeditions into North America, and what did it claim?
Seven Cities of Cíbola were said to be so rich that the streets and houses were decorated with gold and jewels.
What is the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States?
St. Augustine
Due to the high death rate of the indigenous people; Europeans began enslaving what race of people?
Africans
What does the term colony mean?
A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land
Who settled in the Spanish borderlands?
Soldiers and Missionaries
On April 1513 what North American peninsula did Ponce de León land on?
Florida
The people who traveled to North America in order to convert the Indigenous to Catholic religion where called?
Missionaries
What was the main goal of the Spanish missionaries?
To teach their religion to the Native Americans
What is a Secondary Source
A document or other record of past events created by someone who was not present during the events or the time period in which they occurred.
Scientist think that the earliest people in the Americas migrated from?
Siberia
How did the Columbian Exchange affect many Indigenous people in the Americas?
They died from diseases.
What woolly beast did the the Indigenous people that migrated from Siberia follow to North America?
Woolly Mammoth
What famed conquistador set out from Mexico City with a large expedition to find the legendary golden cities?
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
People who travel to a territory or community in order to make converts to their religion.
Missionaries
What happen to allow the indigenous people to travel from their original home to this new continent?
Sever Ice Age
The rediscovered of writings by the ancient Greeks and Romans inspired a new interest in learning and art. This lively period of new thinking has become known as the _________, a word that means "rebirth."
Renaissance
While studying maps of the world, which at that time did not include the Americas, Columbus became convinced that the shortest route to the Indies lay to the west, across the ________ Ocean.
Atlantic
In their new continent the indigenous had to adapt and therefore became ..
Hunter Gathers
What are discovered items made by people?
Artifacts
Where did the Indigenous People migrate to?
Alaska (North America)
Columbus made four trips to the Caribbean, as well as the continent of South America. He laid claim to all land in the name of __________, although it was not his to take.
Spain
Why did The American Revolution happen?
Colonists had formed a set of ideas and beliefs that had become different from British views.
Who gained the most during the Columbian Exchange?
Europeans