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1491-1607 5%, Native life, interactions and Columbian Exchange
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1491
1 year prior to European contact
1607
First permanent English settlement: Jamestown
Maize
corn in SW US and Mexico that allowed population growth
Great Plains and Great Basin
The middle-midwest America that had lack of resources leading to nomadic and indigenous lifestyle
Colombian Exchange
exchange of goods, ideas, diseases, animals, and people between Europe Africa and America. Impacted the Natives and led to Mestizos. They traded maize and potatoes that led to population growth and capitalism. Had the slave trade and middle passage (Spanish and portugal in W Africa)
Mesitozs
Racially mixed populations of Natives and English
Encomienda System
Royal grants of land to slaves that shifted from Natives to African slave labor
Autonomy
independence, self-rule, natives wanted to perserve their autonomy