Chapter+One+The+Meeting+of+Cultures

These are the key facts and concepts you need to understand for **Chapter One: The Meeting of the Cultures**, from the Brinkley book.

Key Dates: 1492 1565 1607 1608 1624

Key Facts and Concepts: (* means pay special attention) Mayans Aztecs Incas Cahokia Iroquois Confederacy* Leif Eriksson Prince Henry the Navigator Bartholomeu Dias Vasco de Gama Christopher Columbus* Vasco de Balboa Ferdinand Magellan Hernando Cortes Montezuma smallpox* Francisco Pizzaro conquistadors* St. Augustine Jamestown* New Amsterdam Henry Hudson English Reformation Don Juan de Onate ranchos mestizos John Cabot mercantilism* Huguenots Puritan Separatists Quebec Roanoke*

Essential Questions: What types of civilizations did Native Americans establish? What were some of the cultural achievements of early Native American cultures? Were European views of their own cultural superiority justified given these advances? What were most of the early Native American cultures based on? What problems did this present? What was the Iroquois Confederacy and what was it based on? How were gender roles different between some Native American cultures and European cultures? Why did Europeans become interested in exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries? Why have Native Americans been called Indians? Is this an appropriate name? Why or why not? What were the motivations of the Spanish in colonizing the New World? What affects did European diseases have on the Native American population? How did Europeans justify their treatment of the Native Population? What are some positive contributions of the Europeans to the New World? What types of crops came from the New World to Europe? What was the original driving force behind the European importation of slaves from Africa? What is the concept of the "Atlantic World"? How does it explain the development of the Americas? What were the driving forces behind English colonization of the New World? How did the English Reformation affect colonization? What did the English learn from their experience in colonizing Ireland? How did the French model of colonization differ from the British? What advantages did this model provide? What disadvantages? How did the defeat of the Spanish Armada affect the future of colonization in the New World?