Unit 1: Pre-Columbian America

Large farms worked by slaves

• Plantation

• Columbian Exchange

• Haciendas

• Astrolabe

Italian sailor, claimed new world for Spain

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Cabeza de Vaca

Word for sailing around the world

• Circumnavigate

• Circumstance

• Ecomienda System

Economic theory, colony funds mother country

• Ecomienda system

• Northwest Passage

• Mercantilism

First Europeans to explore North America

• Mercantilism

• Plantations

• Vikings

What were the 3 G's that explorers followed when deciding to explore the New World?

• Grit, Grand, Glory

• Gold, God, Glory

• Gaming, God, Glory

Form of religion, protest the Catholic beliefs

• Catholicism

• Protestantism

• Baptist

• Judaism

After the arrival of Europeans, many Native Americans died because of ________________________

In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World with the Nina, Pinta, and the ________________________

Columbus called the people he encountered in the islands ________