APUSH Period 1

Year of Columbus’ arrival on October 12.

First permanent English settlement at Jamestown.

Spread Christianity, water routes, fur trading, mines, and plantations.

Major civilization of North America in Mexico.

Mayor civilization of Central America in the Yucatan peninsula.

Major civilization of South America in the Andes mountains (Peru and Bolivia).

Crops in South America.

Civilization near Utah and Colorado.

Type of population that settled and didn’t move around as much. Ex. Chumash.

Hunter-Gather type populations that moved often. Ex. Ute.

Fertile land with many populations due to rich food supply Ex. Hopewell.

Portuguese, established trading post empire after sailing around Africa.

United Castille and Aragon empires to create Spain under the Catholic Christian banner.

Italian, asked Spain Monarchs for Sponsorship to find a new water route to India. Landed in the Caribbean Island of San Salvador on Oct. 12, 1492.

Drawn by the Pope to separate Spain and Portugal in South America.

Moved popes line west slightly giving Brazil to Portugal.

The transfer of food animals, minerals, people, and diseases between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

Brought by the Spanish to the Americans, weakened most of the native peoples making it easier to get overpowered by colonial armies.

Maize, tomatoes, potatoes, cacao, tobacco.

Rice, wheat, soybeans, rye, oats, lemons, oranges & horses, pigs, cattle, chicken.

System in which peasants lived and worked on the land of a noble (land granted by monarchs) in exchange for armed protection. Power resided at the hands of landowners.

System based on private ownership in the free and open exchange of goods between property owners. Power resided at the hands of rich merchants.

Dangerous route from Africa to the Americas for enslaved people.

A limited liability organization in which a plurality of investors pool their money to fund a venture.

Spanish King granted land with natives to farm.

Higher taxes for the people at the bottom of the list

1. Pureblood Spaniards

2. Different levels of mixed

3. Blacks & Indians

Spaniards had to pay the king taxes for each African Slave they brought.

Priest and main voice against slavery of native people.

The debate regarding the morality of native slavery 1550-1551.

Priest that argued Natives were not human and benefited from systems like encomienda.

Cursed by his father to be a slave forever. Europeans concluded that dark skin was a mark of Ham and, therefore were bound to slavery.