6596962243 | Maize | This crop transformed nomadic hunter-gatherer societies into settled farm communities | 0 | |
6596962245 | God, Gold & Glory | 3 motives for Spanish Exploration | 1 | |
6596962246 | Hispaniola | The area in which Columbus landed | 2 | |
6596962250 | Northwest Indians | Lived in permanent longhouses that had a rich diet based on hunting & fishing | 3 | |
6596962251 | Great Plains Indians | Tribe that was nomadic OR farmers/traders; hunted buffalo, raised maize, beans & squash | 4 | |
6596962253 | Cortes | Conquered the Aztecs | 5 | |
6596962255 | Bartolome de las Casas | Man who stood up for the rights on the natives. | 6 | |
6596962259 | Christopher Columbus | Explorer who won the backing of Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand of Spain to sail west from Europe to the "Indies." | 7 | |
6596962262 | Columbian Exchange | Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases (beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes & tobacco) between Old World and New World after the time of Columbus. | 8 | |
6596962263 | Corn, beans, potatoes | 3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe? | 9 | |
6596962264 | Horses | Animal introduced by the Spanish that changed the lifestyle of the Native American | 10 | |
6596962265 | Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, influenza | Diseases from the Old World and went to the New World | 11 | |
6596962266 | Syphillis | Disease from the New World to the Old World | 12 | |
6596962268 | Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it; essentially set up slavery for Native Americans | 13 | |
6596962269 | Atlantic slave trade | Lasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. 98% of Africans were sent to the Caribbean, South and Central America. | 14 | |
6596962270 | Iroquois | A later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests | 15 | |
6596962271 | Cherokee | Are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family. | 16 | |
6596962273 | Maya | Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar. | 17 | |
6596962274 | Aztec | (1200-1521) 1300, they settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. Worshipped many gods (polytheistic). Believed the sun god needed human blood to continue his journeys across the sky. | 18 | |
6596962275 | Inca | Their empire stretched from what is today Ecuador to central Chili in the Andes Mountain region of South America. Called the Children of the Sun. | 19 | |
6596962277 | Nomad | Early, simplistic man that migrated across the land bridge. | 20 | |
6596962282 | Mestizo | People with mixed Indian & European heritage | 21 | |
6596962283 | Mulatto | People of mixed white and black ancestry | 22 | |
6596962284 | Pope's Rebellion/Pueblo Revolt | 1680 conflict that lead to death of hundreds of Spanish colonists and destruction of Catholic churches in the area | 23 | |
6596962286 | Mercantilism | Economic system in which the colonies exist to enrich the Mother country; attempt to export to colonies more than they import | 24 |
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