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| 14769863402 | How did early Americans reach North and South America? | They crossed a land bridge from Asia | 0 | |
| 14769863403 | When was the land bridge formed? What was it made of? | During the ice age, ice/land | 1 | |
| 14769863405 | What were the most complex Indian communities? | Mayan, Inca and Aztecs | 2 | |
| 14769863406 | What did the cultivation of maize do? | Transform nomadic hunter-gather societies into settled farming communities | 3 | |
| 14769863407 | What kinds of items did Europeans desire from Persia and China? | Silk, Spices, Oils/Perfumes | 4 | |
| 14769863411 | Where did Columbus land? | Carribean | 5 | |
| 14769863412 | Columbus died thinking what? | That he had found a trade route to Asia and that he had landed on the outskirts of India | 6 | |
| 14769863413 | When Spain and Portugal went to the pope to see how to divide the world, the pope made what? | The Treaty of Tordesillas | 7 | |
| 14769863414 | What did the Treaty of Tordesillas say? | Divided the New World between Spain and Portugal, Portugal got Brazil and Spain got the rest | 8 | |
| 14769863415 | What were the Spanish people who discovered America called? | Spanish conquistadors | 9 | |
| 14769863417 | 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 | 10 | |
| 14769863418 | What was the Encomienda System basically? | Slavery | 11 | |
| 14769863419 | Who worked for Indian's rights? | Bartolome de las Casas | 12 | |
| 14769863420 | What happened when the Spanish ran out of Indians to do work? | They went and got Africans | 13 | |
| 14769863421 | Who was the explorer sent by England to the New World? Where did he explore? | John Cabot- coastline of North America | 14 | |
| 14769863422 | Who was an explorer sent by Spain to the New World? (not Columbus) Where did he explore? | Vasco Nunez de Balboa- Pacific Ocean | 15 | |
| 14769863423 | What is Ferdinand Magellan credited with? | The 1st circumnavigation of the earth | 16 | |
| 14769863424 | When the Spanish moved north, what did they establish? Where? | A fort (outpost) in St. Augustine, Fl | 17 | |
| 14769863425 | What is the Biological (Columbian) Exchange? | Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Old World and New World after the time of Columbus. | 18 | |
| 14769863426 | What 3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe? | 1. Corn 2. Beans 3. Potatoes | 19 | |
| 14769863427 | What was the "big" animal brought to the Americas that changed Indian life? | Horses | 20 | |
| 14769863428 | What diseases were from the Old World and went to the New World? | Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, influenza | 21 | |
| 14769863429 | What disease did the Indians give Europeans? | Syphillis | 22 | |
| 14769863430 | 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. |  | 23 |
| 14769863431 | 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 |  | 24 |
| 14769863433 | Bartolome de las Casas | Fought for natives rights |  | 25 |
| 14769863434 | Maize | An early form of corn grown by Native Americans |  | 26 |
| 14769863445 | Nomad | Early, simplistic man that migrated across the land bridge. | 27 | |
| 14769863446 | Causes for European interest in exploration? | Gold, Glory, and God | 28 | |
| 14771981038 | What were to consequences of conquest on the New World? | Disease, | 29 | |
| 14771989567 | Who was the first to pursue colonization? | Spain | 30 | |
| 14772009081 | Mercantilism | Economic theory in which the colonies provide raw materials to the mother country in return for manufactured goods. This made it so the mother country was importing less than they export, giving them a ton of money and forcing the colony to be dependent on the mother country | 31 | |
| 14772049861 | Spanish Explorers | Columbus-Discovered West Indies Magellan-1st Circumnavigation of the world | 32 | |
| 14772056873 | You only need to know one or two explorers, so... | don't memorize them | 33 |
