Period 1 - 1491 to 1607 Flashcards
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2273883261 | What were native populations doing in North America before the arrival of Europeans? | Developing a wide variety of PERMS based on interactions with the environment. | 0 | |
2273898496 | How did contacts between different ethnic groups affect North America? | The contacts changed the worldviews of each group. | 1 | |
2273912336 | What did European overseas expansion do for societies on both sides of the Atlantic? | Created the Colombian Exchange. | 2 | |
2273927615 | How and when did the earliest North American residents reach the continent? | They crossed a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago. | 3 | |
2273953691 | Where did these native american immigrants reach in terms of boundaries and when? | They gradually spread through North and South America, reaching the tip of South America by 9,000 BCE. | 4 | |
2273960671 | What were the more advanced cultures in the New World? | The Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs. | 5 | |
2273962998 | Approximately how many separate cultures were there in the New World? | About 2,000. | 6 | |
2273968165 | Who were the Anasazi and what did they do? | The Anasazi was a tribe in modern day Arizona and New Mexico, and they built cliff-dwellings, roads, and canals. | 7 | |
2273976054 | What and when did Mississippi Valley tribes do? | They developed a farming culture around 800 BCE and built earthen pyramids and established trading networks throughout much of North America. | 8 | |
2273981906 | What were Eastern Woodland Indians doing? | They were occupying the land east of the Mississippi River in small, self-governing clans. | 9 | |
2273984556 | What were Plains Indians doing? | Plains Indians developed a nomadic lifestyle, following buffalo herds across the American Plains. | 10 | |
2273997539 | Colombian Exchange | Biological and ecological exchange that occurred after European arrival in the New World; peoples of Europe and Africa came to the Americas; animals, plants, and diseases moved between the Old and New Worlds. | 11 | |
2274001314 | What happened to the native populations in the Caribbean and Mexico? | Massive epidemics occurred when they contracted many European diseases. | 12 | |
2274007461 | What happened to tribes along the Atlantic Coast and Ohio River Valley? | They were forced to adapt to white settlers and traders and became dependent on fur trading. | 13 | |
2274014975 | What were Europeans trying to do to the native populations? | Attempting to civilize them and have them accept and convert to Christianity. | 14 | |
2274017451 | What happened to Plains Indians? | They used guns and horses to expand their range and attack enemy tribes. | 15 | |
2274025965 | What were the similarities between native populations and Europeans? | Both lived in village communities, shared a strong sense of spirituality, and divided labor by gender. | 16 | |
2274029705 | What were the differences between native populations and Europeans? | Indians did not share the European concept of private property, and Indian children were often part of their mother's plan because many cultures were matrilineal. | 17 |