Unit 1: 1491 - 1607; Chapter 1 (copy)

European overseas expansion

European overseas expansion

________ resulted in the Columbian Exchange, a series of interactions and adaptations, among societies across the Atlantic.

Christopher Columbus

1492: ________ arrives in the Caribbean, beginning European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

Native Americans

________ strove to maintain their political and cultural autonomy in the face of European challenges to their independence and core beliefs.

Juan Ponce de León

1513: ________ explores Florida, the first recorded European contact with what is now the United States.

St Augustine

1565: Spanish establish ________, the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in what is now the United States.

Native American societies

1491: ________ are diverse and complex, with different cultures, languages, and political structures.

European expansion

________ into the Western Hemisphere caused intense social /religious, political, and economic competition in Europe and the promotion of empire building.

Native peoples

________ and Africans in the Americas strove to maintain their political and cultural autonomy in the face of European challenges to their independence and core beliefs.

arrival of Europeans

The ________ in the Western Hemisphere in the 15th and 16th centuries triggered extensive demographic and social changes on both sides of the Atlantic.

Portuguese exploration

Spanish and ________ and conquest led to widespread deadly epidemics, emergence of racially mixed populations, and a caste system.

Introduction of new crops

________ and livestock by the Spanish had far- reaching effects on native settlement patterns and economic, social, and political development in the Western Hemisphere.

European overseas expansion

________ resulted in the Columbian exchange (a series of interactions and adaptations among societies across the Atlantic)