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Compare & contrast the impact of Spanish, French, & English imperial goals in No
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pueblo Indians | Southwestern United States Native people (of New Mexico and Arizona) whose economy was based off of agriculture and trade. Significance: Forced to convert to Catholicism when the Spanish Franciscan missionaries set up missions in North America. |
| Mound Builders | Prehistoric inhabitants of North America who built earthen mounds for religious, ceremonial, etc usage. Significance: First people of North America. |
| Creeks | Southeastern natives of the United States. Originally known as Muscogee. Significance: First Natives to be civilized under Washington's civilization plan. |
| Choctaw | Southeastern United States descendants of Mound Builders. Converted to Catholicism due to Spanish. Significance: First non-European group to become US citizens in 1831 (treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek). |
| Cherokee | Southeastern United States people whose language belonged to that of the Iroquois. Significance: Forced to become "civilized" from civilization act, assimilated to European culture, traded with settlers, apart of the trail of tears. |
| Iriquios | A league of several indigenous people to North America including Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations. Significance: Participated in beaver-skin trade wars, French and Indian war, and Revolutionary war. |
| Christian World View | A series of beliefs through which Christians interpret the world and react with it. Significance: The reason Christians act the way they do. The reason Christians came to America and interacted with the Natives. |
| Native American World View | Polytheistic people who derive an understanding of the world from cycles of life, nature's natural rhythm, etc. Significance: They do not believe the earth is a "claimable object." |
| Difference in War | A conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air. (not sure what is meant by this term) |
| European Motives for Exploration | Glory, God, and Gold Significance: Led to many explorers coming to America to claim the land for different countries. |
| Spain | A sovereign European state in the Iberian peninsula. Under the rule of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel during the age of exploration. Significance: Country that sent Columbus who "discovered" America. |
| Christopher Columbus | An Italian explorer born in 1451 in Genoa. Sent on an exploration by the King and Queen of Spain. (Sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred ninety two.) Significance: "Discovered" America. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Divided the newly discovered land into the part that was Spain's and the part that was Portugal's. Signed in 1494. Significance: Intended to resolve dispute following Columbus' return from his claiming and discovery of the new world. |
| Conquistadors | Soldiers, explorers, and adventures at the service of the Spanish empire. Significance: Colonized most of the world for Spain and Portugal and opened trade routes. |
| Hernando Cortes | Conquistador who as born in 1485 in Medellín. Significance: Conquistador who ended the Aztec empire. |
| Aztec Empire | Indigenous ethnic people of Mexico. Significance: Advanced people whose empire was destroyed by disease and conquistadors. |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquistador who was born in 1471 in Spain. Significance: Conquered the Incan Empire. |
| Inca Empire | Advanced century old civilization who depended on agriculture. Polytheistic people who spoke Quechua, built amazing feats of engineering (Machu Pichu). Significance: Empire ended once the conquistadores came to their empire which stretched 900,000 kms. |
| Columbian Exchange | Trade between the new world and the old world. Very well known for the trade of food and spices. Significance: Brought disease to the new world. |
| Montezuma | Ninth Aztec Emperor. Significance: Killed during Spanish conquest of Mexico. |
| Encomienda System | A legal system that was employed by the Spanish during the conquering of America designed to regulate Native American labor. Significance: Tribes instructed in the Spanish language and Catholicism in exchange for their labor. |
| Hacienda System | Spanish word for estate. Significance: Systems of large landholdings that essentially marked status. |
| Mission System | Religious and military outposts established by Franciscan missionaries and Spanish Catholics. Significance: Forced conversion and brought new foods. |
| Mestizos | Children of the indigenous people and the European settlers. Significance: lower class people (hapa) |
| "Black Legend" | A style of propaganda and writing in the 1500's. Significance: Demonized the conquistadors and the Spanish empire. |
| St. Augustine | Bishop of present day Algeria. Significance: Latin philosopher and theologist who is considered to be one of the most influential Christian minds. |
| New Mexico | State located in the Southwest and Western United States. Significance: Inhibited by indigenous people such as the Navajo and Pueblo. |
| Pueblo Revolt | The Pueblo people revolted towards the missionaries and the way in which they were forced to convert and reject their culture. The revolt was unsuccessful. |
| Texas | Second most populous and second most extensive state in the United States. Borders with Mexico. Significance: Once was home to many native people. |
| California | State located in the west coast of the United States and is the most populous. Significance: Fought for in the Mexican War. |
| France | Unitarian semi presidential republic in Western Europe. Significance: Parts of North America claimed for France. |
| Jacques Cartier | French explorer born in 1491. Significance: Claimed Canada for France and was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. |
| Samuel de Champlain | "Father of new France" who was a French navigator, cartographer, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. Significance: Founded New France and Quebec City. |
| Coureurs de Bois | Independent entrepreneurial French Canadian Woodsman who traveled to New France and the interior of North America. Significance: Traded European goods for fur and pelts. |
| Antoine Cadillac | French explorer and adventurer in New France. Significance: Explored area stretching from Eastern Canada to Louisiana. |
| Robert de La Salle | French explorer born in 1643. Significance: Explored the Great Lakes region of US and Canada and the Mississippi region. |
| New Orleans | Founded on May 7, 1718 by French Mississippi Company. Significance: Important future trade route in America. |
| England | Part of the United States that shares a border with Scotland. Significance: Sent settlers who eventually founded the United States. |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | English aristocrat, writer, courtier, spy, and explorer who was born in 1552. Significance: Popularized tobacco in England. |
| Roanoke | Colony in present day North Carolina. Significance: Late 16th century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement that later became the Virginia colony. |
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