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7223533166How did early Americans reach North and South America?They crossed a land bridge from Asia0
7223533167When was the land bridge formed? What was it made of?During the ice age, ice/land1
7223533168What were the Indians doing when they crossed the land bridge?Following food or herds2
7223533170What did the cultivation of maize do?Transform nomadic hunter-gather societies into settled farming communities3
7223533172What were the Spanish 3 motives for exploration?1. God 2. Gold 3. Glory4
7223533174Where did Columbus land?Hispaniola in the West Indies5
7223533175Who came to the New World once it was discovered?Spanish conquistadors6
7223533176What 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
7223533178Who worked for Indian's rights to be viewed as civilized?Bartolome de las Casas8
7223533179What happened when the Spanish ran out of Indians to do work?They went and got Africans9
7223533181What is the Biological (Columbian) Exchange?Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Old World and New World after the time of Columbus.10
7223533182What 3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe?1. Corn 2. Beans 3. Potatoes11
7223533183What was the "big" animal brought to the Americas that changed Indian life?Horses12
7223533184What disease(s) were from the Old World and went to the New World?Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, influenza13
7223533185What disease(s) did the Indians give Europeans?Syphillis14
7223533186Columbian ExchangeAn 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
7223533187EncomiendaA grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers (slaves) on it16
7223533188Atlantic slave tradeLasted 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
7223533191Anasazi of the SouthwestA Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings18
7223533192Iroquois of the NortheastA later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests19
7223533193Cherokee of the SoutheastAre 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
7223533194Inuit of the NorthA member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia)21
7223533198TenochtitlanCapital 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
7223533199Aztec calendar365 days, divided into 18 months each with 20 days.23
7223533200Terrace farmingThe 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
7223533201NomadEarly, simplistic man that migrated across the land bridge. (hunter-gatherers)25
7223533202Causes 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
7223533203Martin LutherBroke away from the Catholic Church because of his 95 problems with the Catholic Church.27
7223533204King Henry VIIIBroke 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
7223533205New FranceEstablished in Canada and along the Mississippi River, focused on fur trade.29

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