Columbus
To find a shorter route to asia.
What was Columbus' Original Goal?
The Purpose of the Encomienda system
What was to control the native populations?
The biggest factor in what each native group ate, how they lived, their shelter, and traditions.
What are the resources available to them in the area they lived?
What is only the important information so you can find it easier later on?
Spanish for the word "Conqueror"
What is conquistador?
The area Columbus originally thinks he Lands.
Where is Asia?
These people were at the top of society in Encomienda.
Who are people born in Spain?
Who are the Iroquois and Mohican tribes?
A piece of information from the time period you're studying like a diary, letter, photo, or official document.
What is a primary source?
Responsible for taking over what is today Mexico from the Aztecs and kidnapping their leader.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
Paid for Columbus' voyage.
Who is Spain?
These people were at the bottom of society during Encomienda
Who are African slaves and natives?
What is to explain the unexplainable and teach some sort of lesson or moral?
A piece of information written about a time period much later on by an expert or historian.
What is a secondary source?
The leader of the Aztecs
Who is Montezuma?
Collect as much gold as possible and convert as many people to Christianity as possible
What are Columbus' objectives once he arrived in the New World.
Many native people were forced to work extracting these metals from far remote mines
What is gold and silver?
The first people in North America crossed this to get here from Asia, it no longer exists and today the area is filled by the Bering Sea.
What is the land Bridge
What are Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey?
Something the conquistadors possessed that helped them conquer the natives despite being out numbered.
What is superior technology like firearms, steel weapons, and armor?
The group of Native People first encountered by Columbus.
Who are the Taino.
Every Encomienda built one of these to help achieve a major goal of colonization.
What is a Church?
The Native American tribe that lived in what is today Ulster County NY
Who are the Lenape?
Hands and?
What are eyes?
A disease that killed an estimated 100,000,000 natives after the arrival of the Conquistadors.
What is Smallpox?