Cultural interactions and misunderstandings and tribes

Matrillineal

female head of household

Animism

spirality in all things

Clash of cultures

Religion, Freedom, Land, Wealth

Columbian Exchange

trades of goods, people, ideas

Old to New- horses, disease

New to old- tobacco, corn

Motives for exploration

Gold, God, Glory

Conquistadors

Spanish explorers

Encomienda

NA forced labor in exchange for protection and conversion to Christianity

Asiento

Enslaved Africans, imports to spanish settlement

mines and sugar

Spanish Caste

rigid social class system, put themselves at the top, NA at the bottom

Impact of disease on Native American populations

90% died

Hernan Cortes

spanish conquistador, conquers the Aztecs

Arctic

• Eskomo, Chomok

• Fish

• CA, Alaska

• Longhouses 

• Mountain ranges for protection

Great plains

• Sioux 

• Teepees 

• Nomadic 

• Buffalo 

Southwest

• New Mexico, Arizona 

• Dry, Arid, Warm

• Cliff and cave dwellings 

• Pueblo 

SE/Mississippi

• Cherokee

• Irrigation networks

• Earth mounds

NE/ Woodlands

• Iroquois

• Powhatan 

• 3 sisters 

• Longhouses