How did societies adapt to and transform their environments through innovations in agriculture, resource use, and social structure?
Pueblo, Navajo
Sioux, Apache
Iroquois Confederacy of the Northeast
Chinook, Nez Perce, Shoshone
What were the positives and negatives of the Columbian Exchange in both hemispheres?
What were the reasons for European Exploration?
Gold, God, and Glory, founding of St. Augustine (1565), Northwest Passage, Roanoke Island, Papal Bull
Introduction of corn, potatoes, and tomatoes to Europe, growth of European nation-states
Caravel, sextant, joint-stock trading company
Why did the Columbian Exchange lead to demographic, economic, and social changes?
How did the development of the Spanish Empire in the Western Hemisphere lead to demographic, economic, and social changes?
Spread of smallpox; European introduction of horses, rice, wheat, and oxen to the New World; bison hunting on the Great Plains
Sugar plantations, silver mines, Black Legend
Line of Demarcation, Middle Passage
Mestizo, Zambo, mulatto
How were the worldviews regarding religion, gender roles, family, land use, and power different between the Europeans and Native Americans?
African religious traditions combined with Christian traditions, Maroon communities
Spanish mission system, Juan de Onate, Acoma War and defeat of the Pueblo (1599)
Juan de Sepulveda, Bartolome de Las Casas, communal nature of land, private vs. public ownership of land, animism