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6674776470How did early Americans reach North and South America?They crossed a land bridge from Asia0
6674776472What were the Indians doing when they crossed the land bridge?Following food or herds1
6674776474What did the cultivation of maize do?Transform nomadic hunter-gather societies into settled farming communities2
6674776476What were the Spanish 3 motives for exploration?1. God 2. Gold 3. Glory3
6674776479Where did Columbus land?Hispainola4
6674776483Who came to the New World once it was discovered?Spanish conquistadors5
6674776485What 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 Christians6
6674776486What was the Encomienda System basically?Slavery7
6674776487Who worked for Indian's rights?Bartolome de las Casas8
6674776488What happened when the Spanish ran out of Indians to do work?They went and got Africans9
6674776493What is the Biological (Columbian) Exchange?Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Old World and New World after the time of Columbus.10
6674776494What 3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe?Corn, Beans and Squash11
6674776496What diseases were from the Old World and went to the New World?Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, influenza12
6674776498Columbian 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.13
6674776499EncomiendaA grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it14
6674776500Atlantic 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.15
6674776501Bartolome de las CasasFirst bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor; however his suggestion to replace Natives with Africans was won he would regret.16
6674776502MaizeAn early form of corn grown by Native Americans17
6674776503AnasaziA Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings18
6674776504IroquoisA 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
6674776505CherokeeAre 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. 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
6674776513NomadEarly, simplistic man that migrated across the land bridge.21
6674776514Causes for European interest in exploration?The Holy Crusades, Renaissance and The Protestant Reformation.22

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