APUSH Period 1 (1491-1607)

Period 1 APUSH Flashcards

What year did Christopher Columbus arrive in the Americas?

1492

Who were the first people to arrive in the Americas and when did they arrive?

The Norse were the first and they came around the year 1000

The arrival of Christopher Columbus started what period? What happened during this period?

The Contact Period, where Europe had sustained connection with the Americas

What year marks the end of the Contact Period and why?

1607, because that is the year of the first English Settlement

What was the Bering Land Bridge? Who came across it and what did they do?

It was a bridge of ice that connected Eurasia and North America. The Ancestors of Native Americans came across this bridge and became the first to inhabit North and South America.

What was the Pre-Columbian era?

It was the era before the arrival of Columbus in the Americas.

What happened between the Settlers and Native Americans when they first arrived and why?

The two groups had frequent conflicts because the Europeans had very different cultural and religious beliefs than that of the Native Americas.

Before European arrival, what activity supported economic development?

Agriculture: The spread of maize cultivation in Mexico and Southwest America, fishing along the coasts, and game hunting inland.

What was the lifestyle of Native Americans in the Great Plains? How did their location support that lifestyle?

They were nomadic hunter-gatherers, and the great plains provided plenty of food sources and places to build up temporary shelters.

What were the three major civilizations of central and South America, and the regions they were located in?

The Mayans in the Yucatan Peninsula, The Aztecs in Central America, and The Incans in the Andes Mountains of Peru

What were the characteristics of the Mayans, Incans, and Aztecs?

Mayans: Large cities, complex irrigation, water storage, and stone temples

Incans: The Fortress Machu Picchu, a massive empire, and fertile mountain valleys

Aztecs: Capital city Tenochtitlan with 300,000 people, written language, irrigation, cult of fertility upheld by human sacrifice

Who were the Pueblo? What are some other Native American groups?

Pueblo people, stayed in one place, farmers of maize, built homes in open and into sides of cliffs, organized society with government.

Ute, Chinook, Chumash, Hopewell, Cahokia, and Iroquois.

What were some developments in Europe that allowed them to begin traveling?

1. More political unification after Ferdinand and Isabella kicked out the Moors

2. Shipbuilding