Colonization of the Americas
Italian explorer who "discovered" the Americas while trying to find a westward route to India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Sparked by Columbus' voyages, this process was the trading of people, resources, and ideas between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Indigenous peoples of North and South America who inhabited the lands for thousands of years prior to European colonization.
Who are the Native Americans/American Indians?
The major world religion that the European powers spread to the New World during the Age of Exploration.
What is Christianity?
This is when you have a terrible weak handshake.
What is a "wet fish?"
This European power established the initial settlements that would become the Thirteen Original Colonies.
What is Great Britain/United Kingdom/England?
This was a very predominant three-legged trade route illustrated the exchange of people and resources from Europe to Africa to the Americas.
What is the Triangle Trade?
This British religious group came over on the Mayflower and established the first British settlement at Plymouth in Massachusetts.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This German clergyman started a movement that split the Roman Catholic Church due to corruption.
Who is Martin Luther?
This is when you invade someone's personal space, often pulling them in way too close during a handshake.
What is "stealing someone's soul?"
This major European power established colonies in much of Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean Islands and the southern United States.
What is the Spanish Empire?
European power credited with starting the Age of Exploration with the voyages arranged by Prince Henry the Navigator.
What is the Portuguese Empire/Portugal?
What were the three Colonial Regions?
The Puritans, Pilgrims, and Quakers all moved from Great Britain to the American Colonies for this reason.
What is Religion Tolerance / Freedom of Religion?
Expectations that you have for yourself in order to achieve growth and improvement.
What are goals?
This major European power established colonies in much of the northern portions of North American, such as Canada and the Great Lakes area.
What is France?
Originated mostly in West Africa, this route was how the vast majority of captured Africans would end up as slaves in the New World.
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
The first Native Americans crossed this in order to move from Asia to North America as they followed the migration patterns of their food sources.
What is the Bering Land Bridge / Beringia?
This is what Martin Luther's movement was known as that split the Roman Catholic Church into different branches of Christianity.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Mr. Lambatos did this prior to becoming a teacher.
What is a Stock Broker / Personal Computer Wizz?
This was the first permanent British settlement in the Americas that established British influence in North America?
What is Jamestown?
This event established Great Britain as a great maritime powerhouse, allowing them to expand westward to establish the Thirteen Original Colonies.
What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
This was the #1 reason why the European explorers were able to defeat many Native American peoples, despite being very outnumbered.
What is disease?
This group of British settlers were known for being hyper religious, shunning singing and dancing in favor of a very strict and serious lifestyle.
Who were the Puritans?
This invasive species of insect terrorized S139 last year and has influenced your famed birthday song.
What are bees?