Period 1

Question 1

refers to the exchange of plants, animals, and germs between the New World and Europe following the discovery of America in 1492

Answer 1

Columbian Exchange

Question 2

license granted by the Spanish crown to royal officials to extract labor and tribute from its Native peoples in specified areas that began in the Caribbean and spread to Mexico

Answer 2

Encomienda System

Question 3

earliest Americans residents crossed this to arrive in North and later settling in South America

Answer 3

Beringia Land Bridge

Question 4

Native settlements in the Americas were grouped into 5 major regions based on geography, climate, food sources, and way of life

Answer 4

Geography Shapes Lives

Question 5

explorer who hope to discover a new trade route to Asia but ended up in the “Americas”. He proposed Christianizing the indigenous peoples all the while seizing their mineral wealth and exploiting their labor

Answer 5

Christopher Columbus

Question 6

New World foods transformed European society by increasing agricultural yields and improving diets while spreading disease to Native populations and leading to the development of slave labor

Answer 6

Impact of the Columbian Exchange

Question 7

Spanish term for explorer that was granted authority to conquer land in the New World

Answer 7

Conquistador

Question 8

Europeans, Mestizos, Mulattos, Indigenous Peoples, African Slaves

Answer 8

Spanish Caste System

Question 9

Sugar Harvesting & Silver Mining

Answer 9

Lucrative New World enterprises for the Spanish Empire