AP United States History Flash Cards

Why were native Americans diverse?

Geography

Maize Cultivation yielded what?

Economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, social diversification.

What led to the end of Feudalism?

The Spanish (and other European) contact and colonization of South American empires, such as Inca and Aztecs

One difference between two native tribes?

Lifestyle of nomadic vs stationary

One common thing between two native tribes?

Environment determined their aspects

Economic variables of Europeans

• Joint Stock Companies

• New technological innovations

• Land = $$

Encomienda system

Spanish imposed labour system that forced indigenous people into plantation based agriculture

Cash Crops of the early times

Cotton, Sugar,Tobacco

Why did the Spanish replace indigenous workers with Africans?

Because of the escaped indigenous because they knew the land, and they died to disease more frequently.

What was the line of demarcation?

The line drown by the pope to stop Spanish and Portuguese fighting

Explain one biotic effect on the Americas from the columbian exchange

The introduction of horses on the americas led to more food to be gathered when hunting bison

Explain one instance of Cultural Adoptions with the Europeans and Natives

The Europeans adopted some land and agricultural strategies from the Natives

Bartolome de las Casas main idea

He advocated for the natives, condemned the encondiemda system

What did the Europeans use as justification of African Slavery?

The bible

Why did the Spanish demand crops from the New World?

The maize and potatoes were causing populations to grow and they wanted that

Pre Columbian mexico was good because of what practice?

Maize Cultivation

Mississippian societies used what tactics?

Water iriquation tactics