American Indians
Various Facts
West Africa
Explorers
Travel
100

What is the middle passage? 

enslaved Africans’ transatlantic journey to the Americas on a slave ship

100

In what ways were Native American tribes different region to region?

•housing, language, economy, food, beliefs

100

Portuguese rounded the southern tip of Africa and found what? 

Salt, gold

100

Cortez sailed to? 

Mexico 

100

What disease killed off 90% of Native Americans?

Smallpox

200

the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americas following Columbus’s journey

NColumbian Exchange

200

What led to the growth of  civilizations?

Agriculture

200

Between 1500 and 1800, how many slaves crossed the Atlantic? 

11 million

200

Who sailed to the Mississippi River

Hernando 

200

Which animals were introduced to the Americas? 

horses, mules, cattle, and sheep

300

What were the causes and effects of European arrival in the Americas?

search for an all-water route to Asia

The arrival of European settlers and enslaved Africans brought traumatic changes to the many complex Native American cultures.

300

What led to the voyages of exploration? 

Agriculture and economic wealth

300

Why Africans for slavery? 

1. Had experience farming

2. less likely to run away

3. Was immune to European diseases 

300

What year did Hernan Cortes defeat the Aztecs? 

1519-21

400

How did people cross over into other countries? 

Land bridge

400

When did Christopher sail the ocean to the new world? 

1492

400

What percent of Africans didn't survive the journey to the new world? 

20%

400

Which conquistador traveled to Florida in 1513?

Juan Ponce de Leon

500

They lived in extended family groups called

clans

500

What was found in the new world when Christopher landed

Native Americans, spices

500

When slaves were bought, their new masters did what to their bodies

Branded them to mark them as property 

500

Who went to Peru

Pizarro