Native Life
This crop (corn) was the most important food for early Native Americans.
What is Maize?
This country conquered Mexico and South America looking for gold.
What is Spain?
This "exchange" of plants, animals, and germs started in 1492.
What is Columbian Exchange?
European diseases like this one killed millions of Native Americans.
What is Smallpox?
This ocean had to be crossed for Europeans to reach the "New World."
What is Atlantic Ocean?
This group in the Southwest built "apartment-style" homes out of dried mud (adobe).
What is Pueblo?
This system forced Native Americans to work on Spanish farms and mines.
What is Encomienda System?
This animal from Europe changed how Plains Indians hunted and moved.
What is Horse?
This priest was the most famous defender of Native American rights.
What is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
This region is where you would find "Longhouses" and the Iroquois.
What is Northeast?
Tribes in this flat, grassy region followed the buffalo and lived in mobile homes.
What is Great Plains?
This system ranked people based on the color of their skin and where they were born.
What is Casta System?
This New World vegetable became a major food source for poor people in Europe.
What is Potato?
This was the main religion the Spanish tried to force Native Americans to join.
What is Catholicism?
This was the specific region where the Pueblo people lived (hot and dry).
What is Southwest?
This group of five tribes in the Northeast formed a "Confederacy" to stop fighting.
What is Iroquois?
This European country was mostly interested in trading furs, not taking land
What is France?
This "cash crop" from the Americas became very popular to smoke in Europe.
Tobacco
This word describes the mixing of different cultures or religions
What is Syncretism?
The "Mound Builders" lived in the valley of this famous American river.
What is Mississippi River?
These ancient people built huge "mounds" of earth in the Mississippi River valley.
What is Mound Builders?
These were Spanish people born in Spain (the highest social class in the colonies).
What is Peninsulares?
This shiny metal was the main thing the Spanish wanted to take back to Europe.
What is Silver/Gold?
This 1680 revolt saw the Pueblo people successfully kick the Spanish out for 12 years.
What is Pueblo Revolt?
Tribes in this rainy, coastal region (California/Oregon) built totem poles and ate salmon.
What is Northwest Coast?