Period 1 Review Sheet
Assessable Content
- Maize cultivation from Mexico to Am. Southwest
- advanced irrigation and social diversification
- Great Basin
- grasslands of the western Great Plains
- Northeast-the Mississippi River Valley-and along the Atlantic seaboard-mixed Ag and hunter-gather societies
- Northwest and present-day California
- European nations explore and conquer caused by search for new sources of wealth-economic and military competition-and a desire to spread Christianity (3-G’s)
- Columbian Exchange caused shift from feudalism to capitalism
- maritime technology improvements
- joint-stock companies
- deadly epidemics with native populations
- introduction of crops and animals not found in the Americas
- encomienda system
- West African/European introduction of slavery
- Spanish caste system
- European/American Indians adopt each other culture
- American Indians tried to keep their lifestyles through diplomatic negotiations and military resistance
- debate by Europeans over treatment of American Indians and Africans over time
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