Origins of American History: Native Americans, European Discovery and Exploration

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  1. 1. A sophisticated prehistoric Native American site in present-day western Illinois; includes a six square mile system of mounds and wooden stockades
  2. 4. French economic activity in New France focused on the fur of this animal, trapping, trading, and selling it
  3. 6. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico
  4. 8. First permanent English settlement in North America in 1607
  5. 10. The introduction of this animal to North America from Europeans changed Indian life in regard to food hunting/gathering and fighting
  6. 11. This nation was the European leader in exploration and colonization in the Americas in the 1500s
  7. 13. First English settlement in North America (1580s); mysteriously wiped out by wilderness or natives
  8. 15. One of the European diseases introduced to North America that decimated the natives
  9. 16. Mariners from this country overcame the obstacles to exploration of the West African coast; they set up trading posts for gold and slaves, many of whom were taken to sugar plantations
  10. 17. Indian woman who was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, may have saved Captain John Smith, married tobacco-cultivator John Rolfe, and became a Christian
  11. 18. The French got off to a late start in colonizing the New World because they were preoccupied with conflicts at home between Roman Catholics and these Calvinist Protestants
  12. 20. Crops, animals, and diseases were traded introduced from the Old World to the New World and vice versa in this "Columbian" trade
  13. 21. A frigid land bridge over which the first people may have migrated from Asia to America
  14. 22. These Indians were nomadic bison (buffalo) hunters who lived in the grasslands that stretch across the center of what would become the USA
Down
  1. 2. One of two Indian language groups that dominated the Eastern Woodlands area; this tribe formed a confederacy of tribes in present-day New York State
  2. 3. series of wars in the Middle East that led to trade with the Far East and European expansion overseas
  3. 5. These "old ones" lived in the southwest in tall, apartment-like buildings, some five-stories high
  4. 7. Victory of the English sea dogs over this huge fleet of Spanish ships sets the stage for English colonization in the New World (and the decline of Spain)
  5. 9. This treaty of 1494 divided the New World between Spain and Portugal
  6. 12. Before New York City got its current name, it was New ___, a settlement established by the Dutch West India Company
  7. 14. One of two Indian language groups that dominated the Eastern Woodlands area; spoken by Shawnee, Delaware, and Miami tribes
  8. 19. Spanish system by which the government "commended" natives to certain colonists in return for promise to Christianize them; these colonists could then demand labor from the natives, leading to much abuse