AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 1 A New World of Many Cultures, 1491-1607
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| 14843247788 | disease | When Europeans came to America they brought smallpox and measles to which the natives had no resistance. Millions of American Indians died from these diseases. (p. 8) |  | 0 |
| 14843247799 | encomienda system | King of Spain gave grants of land and natives (as slaves) to individual Spaniards. (p. 8) |  | 1 |
| 14843247800 | asiento system | This system required that a tax be paid to the King of Spain, for slaves that were imported to the Americas. (p. 8) |  | 2 |
| 14843247789 | land bridge | Some time between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, people migrated from Asia to the Americas, across this area that connected Siberia and Alaska. (p. 2) |  | 3 |
| 14843247790 | Hokokam, Anasazi, and Pueblos | These American Indians were located in the New Mexico and Arizona region. They developed farming using irrigation systems. (p. 4) |  | 4 |
| 14843247791 | Woodland mound builders | American Indian tribe east of the Mississippi that prospered because of a rich food supply. (p. 4) |  | 5 |
| 14843247792 | Mayas | From A.D. 300 to 800, this highly developed civilization built large cities in what is today's southern Mexico and Guatemala. (p. 2) |  | 6 |
| 14843247801 | conquistadores | These Spanish explorers and conquerors of the Americas sent ships loaded with gold and silver back to Spain making it the richest and most powerful nation in Europe. (p. 8) |  | 7 |
| 14843247802 | Hernan Cortes | He conquered the Aztecs in Mexico. (p. 8) |  | 8 |
| 14843247803 | Francisco Pizarro | He conquered the Incas in Peru. (p. 8) |  | 9 |
| 14843247793 | New Laws of 1542 | Bartolome de Las Casas convinced the King of Spain to institute these laws, which ended American Indian slavery, ended forced Indian labor, and began the process of ending the encomienda systems. (p. 11) |  | 10 |
| 14843247794 | printing press | This invention in the 1450s spread knowledge across Europe. (p 5) |  | 11 |
| 14843247804 | Ferdinand and Isabella | They united Spain, defeated and drove out the Moors. In 1492, they funded Christopher Columbus's voyage to America. (p. 5) |  | 12 |
| 14843247805 | Protestant Reformation | In the early 1500s, certain Christians in Germany, England, France, Holland, and other northern European countries revolted against the authority of the pope in Rome. (p. 6) |  | 13 |
| 14843247806 | Christopher Columbus | He spent 8 years seeking financial support for his plan to sail west from Europe to the "Indies". In 1492, he sailed from the Canary Islands to an island in the Bahamas. His success in discovering lands on the other side of the ocean brought him a burst of glory in Spain. (p. 7) |  | 14 |
| 14843247795 | Iroquois Confederation | A political union of five independent American Indian tribes in the Mohawk Valley of New York. (p. 5) |  | 15 |
| 14843247796 | longhouses | American Indians along the Pacific Coast lived in the these plank houses. (p. 4) |  | 16 |
| 14843247807 | Henry Hudson | This English sailer was hired by the Dutch government to seek a westward passage to Asia through North America. In 1609, while searching for the passage, he sailed up a broad river that would later be named the Hudson River. (p 10) |  | 17 |
| 14843247797 | Bartolome de Las Casa | A Spanish priest who was an advocate for better treatment of Indians. (p. 11) | | 18 |
| 14843247798 | Valladolid Debate | In 1550-1551, in Valladolid, Spain, a formal debate concerning the role of American Indians in the Spanish colonies. (p. 11) |  | 19 |
