Native Americans before Europeans
Causes of European Exploration
Columbian Exchange
Spanish Exploration and Conquest
Terms to Know
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Geographic feature that historians believe allowed people from Asia to migrate to the Americas in 13,000BC
Land bridge
100
3 main causes of European Exploration
God, glory, gold
100
Main negative effect of Columbian Exchange
Diseases from Europe killed Native Americans
100
What is this picture depicting?
Christopher Columbus meeting the Tainos in Hispaniola
100
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and/or exploiting it economically.
Colonialism
200
Empire that was home to the capital city of Tenochititlan
Aztec Empire
200
Spain's next steps following the Reconquista to establish power and prosperity (2)
Establish further national unity and use foreign commerce
200
Definition of Columbian Exchange
Massive global exchange of living things, including people, animals, plants, and diseases, between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that began after the voyages of Columbus.
200
Who said this quote?
“We Spanish suffer from a strange disease of the heart, for which the only known remedy is gold.”
Hernan Cortes
200
A system of political economy based on government regulation.
Mercantilism
300
A Native American language family whose speakers were widespread in the eastern woodlands, Great Lakes, and the subarctic regions of eastern North America.
Algonquin culture/languages
300
Which cause of European Exploration was the most important to Europeans?
Gold
300
What crops were traded from the Americas to Europe?
Corn, potatoes, beans, tobacco
300
Effect from the mass amounts of gold entering Spain from South America
Inflation in Spain
300
A hierarchical system of racial classification developed by the colonial elites in Latin America to make sense of the complex patterns of racial mixing that developed there.
Casta System
400
A Native American language family whose speakers were concentrated in the eastern woodlands.
Iroquoian cultures/languages
400
Nation that built the first ship (caravel) capable of sailing around the point of Africa
Portugal
400
What animal from Europe significantly changed the way some Native Americans lived?
Horses
400
Hernan Cortes’s conquering of the Aztec Empire can be partially attributed to…
Malinche, an enslaved Native American interpreter, disease, and unrest in the Aztec Empire
400
Emperor of the Aztec Empire when Hernan Cortes took the capital of Tenochtitlan.
Moctezuma
500
“In this belt, it records when five warring nations; the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk, buried their weapons of war to live in peace.”
Hiawatha belt (wampum)
500
What effected trade between Europe and Asia?
The Ottoman Empire blocked trading routes between Europe and Asia
500
Which continents participated in the Columbian Exchange?
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa
500
Order of events that fueled Spanish Exploration and Conquest
Reconquista-> Hispaniola-> Conquistadors-> Plantations, Enslavement and Gold
500
A grant of Indian labor in Spanish America given in the sixteenth century by the Spanish kings to prominent men.
Encomienda