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Mercantilism |
belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism |
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Columbian Exchange |
The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. |
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Christopher columbus |
(bt. August and October 1451 – May 20, 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer who was instrumental in Spanish colonization of the Americas. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Europe (the Vikings had reached Canada many years earlier, led by Leif Ericsson), Columbus’ voyages led to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World. |
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Pueblo Revolt |
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 — also known as Popé’s Rebellion — was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico. |
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Anazasi |
The Anasazi ("Ancient Ones"), thought to be ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians, inhabited the Four Corners country of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northern Arizona from about A.D. 200 to A.D. 1300, |
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Encomienda System |
Encomienda system established. 1512. The encomienda system was created by the Spanish to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas. |
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Bartolome De Las Casas |
Spanish missionary who was appalled by the encomienda system in Hispaniola and called it "a moral pestilence invented by Satan" |
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Iroquois Confederacy |
The five Iroquois nations, characterizing themselves as "the people of the longhouse," were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. After the Tuscarora joined in 1722, the confederacy became known to the English as the Six Nations and was recognized as such at Albany, New York (1722). |
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Spanish/Dutch/French/English Settlement |
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