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| 7252258162 | American Indians | A group of both gendered people who are the descendants of migrants who traveled from Asia to North America. Smaller tribes, such as the Iroquois and Algonquian, were mistakenly named "Indians" because Columbus thought he reached the East Indies. That is how the name stuck for centuries. | 0 | |
| 7252258163 | Maize | Is also identified as corn. Main crop in the time period | 1 | |
| 7252258164 | Colombian Exchange | A period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old world. Christopher Columbus set this into motion. It was the exchanges of plants, animals, technology, and diseases. | 2 | |
| 7252258165 | Spanish Caste system | A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites in Hispanic America during the 18th century. The system could contain in excess of thirty categories. | 3 | |
| 7252258166 | Encomienda system | The crown granted colonists authority over a specified number of natives; the colonists had to protect the natives and convert them to Catholicism. In exchange, the colonist was entitles to those natives labor. | 4 | |
| 7252258167 | Portuguese and Spanish Explorers | A racial caste system, Europeans at the top of the hierarchy, followed by Mestizos, Zambos, and pure blooded Africans at the bottom. | 5 | |
| 7252258168 | Triangular Trade | A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one counting by its exports to another. AN example: shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, they will be sent to the West Indies for sugar, rum, etc, which will be shipped back to Britain. | 6 | |
| 7252258169 | Mestizos | Those of mixed European's | 7 | |
| 7252258170 | Mayas | A member of an American Indian people of Yucatán and adjacent areas. The mayas are known for their agriculture, and city planning, their math and calendar and their hieroglyphic writing system | 8 | |
| 7252258171 | Aztecs | A member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century | 9 | |
| 7252258172 | Incas | Members of a south American Indian people living in the central , Andes before the Spanish conquest | 10 | |
| 7252258173 | "Three sister farming" | The three main Agriculture crops of various Native American groups in North America. The crops are winter squash, maze, and climbing beans | 11 | |
| 7252258174 | The renaissance | A cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the 14th to 17th century it is based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome | 12 | |
| 7252258175 | Treaty of Tordesillas | An agreement between Spain and Portugal and it said and conflicts overland explored by Christopher Columbus or other voyagers | 13 | |
| 7252258176 | Protestant reformation | 16th century religious political intellectual and cultural confusion that hurt catholic Europe. It was set in place the structures and believes that would defined the continent in the modern era | 14 | |
| 7252258177 | Asiento system | Hey system which required to pay a tax on each slave imported. It allowed the Spanish to import cheap labor after the demise of the natives | 15 | |
| 7252258178 | Roanoke Island | The first English settlement in the New World. The settlement failed | 16 | |
| 7252258179 | Cahokia | Location more Mississippian culture thrived before European explorers landed in the Americas. It was one of the greatest cities in the world | 17 | |
| 7252258180 | Metis | A person of mixed American Indian and European American ancestry | 18 | |
| 7252258181 | Zambo | A person of mixed African and Native American heritage | 19 | |
| 7252258182 | Maroon societies | Communities of escaped slaves in the Caribbean Latin America in the United States | 20 | |
| 7252258183 | Middle passage | The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from west Africa to the west Indies | 21 | |
| 7252258184 | Bering Strait | Place were North America and Asia almost touched. Passage was above water allowing agent peoples to walk across to North America | 22 | |
| 7252258185 | Spanish Armada | A Spanish naval invasion for set against England. Was defeated by the English fleet | 23 | |
| 7252258186 | Joint stock companies | Companies made up of group investors who brought the right to establish plantations from the king | 24 | |
| 7252258187 | Calvinists | Major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and others | 25 | |
| 7252258188 | Proprietary colonies | Grants of land in the form of charter or a license to rule for individuals or groups. They were used to settle areas quickly with British subjects at the proprietors expense during the settlement years | 26 |
