A Whole New World: 3 Civilizations Meet

Question 1

What were the 3 civilizations that met in the New World?

Answer 1

Native Americans, Europeans, Africans

Question 2

Matrilineal

Answer 2

Females in native societies held more influential roles than in comparison to their European counterparts.

Question 3

Examples of Matrilineal

Answer 3

Husbands would join their wife’s family in marriage, more rights to divorce and remarry.

Question 4

What were the Three Sisters?

Answer 4

Corn, Beans, Squash. The crops that allowed the Natives to grow and flourish

Question 5

What was the Bering Strait Land Bridge?

Answer 5

A land bridge connecting Asia to North America.

Question 6

What were the Crusades?

Answer 6

Religious disputes between groups in Europe. The economic reason for Europeans coming to the New Word.

Question 7

What was Reformation?

Answer 7

Catholics and Protestants wanted to convert Natives to their religion, the religious-based reason for Europeans coming to the New World.

Question 8

What was the Renaissance?

Answer 8

The cultural movement of new goods, ideas, inventions, and European expansion.

Question 9

What was a caravel?

Answer 9

A tool that helped the Europeans with navigation and sailing.

Question 10

What was Reconquista? And what was the result of it?

Answer 10

The Spanish expelled Muslims and Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492. They gained great power from this but leaves an abundance of warriors and trauma.

Question 11

Who were Conquistadors?

Answer 11

Cortés, Pizzaro. European men who came to the New World hoping to claim land and conquer natives.

Question 12

Who was Hernando Cortés?

Answer 12

A Spaniard who takes over the Mexican mainland, and conquers the Aztecs.

Question 13

How do the Spanish practice their conquering skills?

Answer 13

They conquer small islands off the coast of Africa and islands in the Atlantic.

Question 14

How did Cortés conquer the Aztecs?

Answer 14

He captured their leader and freeze the empire. He had weapons and horses (that the Natives have never seen), and with alliances, he succeeds

Question 15

What happened after Cortés conquered the Aztecs?

Answer 15

He took over the empire, but shorlty

Question 16

What happened after Cortés conquered the Aztecs?

Answer 16

He took over the empire, but shortly after diseases spread.

Question 17

Who was Francisco Pizzaro?

Answer 17

Spanish, took over the Incan empire.

Question 18

What was the importance of Silver to the Spanish?

Answer 18

found in the New World shortly after they gain territory, main export back in Spain. Caused huge success in the economy in the Old World.

Question 19

Who were Encomenderos?

Answer 19

Originally colonial governors who could govern as they liked. Known for being brutal towards their Native slaves.

Question 20

What was the Encomienda System?

Answer 20

A system that gave land to the Spanish in the New World, they could use it as they pleased and used their slaves in a brutal way.

Question 21

Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?

Answer 21

He was a Catholic priest who wrote about the horrors of the Encomienda System and how badly the Natives were being treated.

Question 22

What did Bartolome de Las Casas want to happen in the New World?

Answer 22

He wanted to replace the Encomienda System and convert the Natives to Christianity.

Question 23

What was the Casta System?

Answer 23

A system that explains mixed-race families of the New World and Spaniards.

Question 24

The Spanish people believed in the superiority of Pure Blood Spaniards. But it didn’t work. Why?

Answer 24

Because there were only men in the New World. No women to make Pure Blood babies

Question 25

Who were Peninsulars? (Casta System)

Answer 25

Those who were born in Spain.

Question 26

Who were Creoles? (Casta System)

Answer 26

Those who were born in the New World to Spanish parents.

Question 27

Who were Mestizos? (Casta System)

Answer 27

Those who were born of a Spanish man and a Native woman.

Question 28

Who were Mulattos? (Casta System)

Answer 28

Those who were born of a Spanish man and an African woman.

Question 29

Why did the Spanish empire not succeed in the New World?

Answer 29

The Critical Race Theory (Casta System) caused strians, the empire was out of money and troops

Question 30

What was the Columbian exchange?

Answer 30

After Columbus arrived, a global exchange of goods, animals, germs, and people

Question 31

From the Columbian exchange: What did the Europeans bring to the New World?

Answer 31

-pigs
-horses
-germs
-sugar
-wheat
-bananas
-goats
-cows
-chickens

Question 32

From the Columbian Exchange: What did the New World give to Europe?

Answer 32

-syphilis
-Three Sisters

Question 33

What was the result of the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 33

-Europe won big with new goods
-New World loses with new diseases and new animal they don’t know how to tame them