7223533166 | How did early Americans reach North and South America? | They crossed a land bridge from Asia | 0 | |
7223533167 | When was the land bridge formed? What was it made of? | During the ice age, ice/land | ![]() | 1 |
7223533168 | What were the Indians doing when they crossed the land bridge? | Following food or herds | 2 | |
7223533170 | What did the cultivation of maize do? | Transform nomadic hunter-gather societies into settled farming communities | 3 | |
7223533172 | What were the Spanish 3 motives for exploration? | 1. God 2. Gold 3. Glory | ![]() | 4 |
7223533174 | Where did Columbus land? | Hispaniola in the West Indies | 5 | |
7223533175 | Who came to the New World once it was discovered? | Spanish conquistadors | 6 | |
7223533176 | What are the 2 things the Spanish give the Indians in exchange for their work (in the Encomienda System) | 1. Provide food, shelter, and good treatment to the Indians 2. Convert them to Christians 3. diseases too -__- | 7 | |
7223533178 | Who worked for Indian's rights to be viewed as civilized? | Bartolome de las Casas | ![]() | 8 |
7223533179 | What happened when the Spanish ran out of Indians to do work? | They went and got Africans | 9 | |
7223533181 | What is the Biological (Columbian) Exchange? | Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Old World and New World after the time of Columbus. | 10 | |
7223533182 | What 3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe? | 1. Corn 2. Beans 3. Potatoes | 11 | |
7223533183 | What was the "big" animal brought to the Americas that changed Indian life? | Horses | 12 | |
7223533184 | What disease(s) were from the Old World and went to the New World? | Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, influenza | 13 | |
7223533185 | What disease(s) did the Indians give Europeans? | Syphillis | 14 | |
7223533186 | Columbian Exchange | An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa. | ![]() | 15 |
7223533187 | Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers (slaves) on it | ![]() | 16 |
7223533188 | 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. | 17 | |
7223533191 | Anasazi of the Southwest | A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings | ![]() | 18 |
7223533192 | Iroquois of the Northeast | 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 | ![]() | 19 |
7223533193 | Cherokee of the Southeast | Are a Native American people historically settled in principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee. Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family. In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located. | ![]() | 20 |
7223533194 | Inuit of the North | A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia) | ![]() | 21 |
7223533198 | Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins. | ![]() | 22 |
7223533199 | Aztec calendar | 365 days, divided into 18 months each with 20 days. | ![]() | 23 |
7223533200 | Terrace farming | The cutting out of flat areas (terraces) into near vertical slopes to allow farming. Terrace farms appears as steps cut into a mountainside. This adaptation allowed both the early Chinese, and the Inca of Mesoamerica to grow enough food for their large populations. | ![]() | 24 |
7223533201 | Nomad | Early, simplistic man that migrated across the land bridge. (hunter-gatherers) | 25 | |
7223533202 | Causes for European interest in exploration? | The Holy Crusades, Renaissance, and The Protestant Reformation. Plus they heard about the Spanish and their conquering in the name of God, Glory, Gold. | 26 | |
7223533203 | Martin Luther | Broke away from the Catholic Church because of his 95 problems with the Catholic Church. | 27 | |
7223533204 | King Henry VIII | Broke away from the Catholic Church because of his disagreement with his inability to get divorced; which eventually led to civil unrest in his country. | 28 | |
7223533205 | New France | Established in Canada and along the Mississippi River, focused on fur trade. | 29 |
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