Study Guide – First Americans - Jamestown

 

 

-         Maps (terms, types)

-         Latitude-Longitude

-         5 Themes of Geography – know examples

-         First Americans (from where?  How? Map)

-         Reasons for European Exploration (causes that lead to exploration)

-         Christopher Columbus (motive? “Discovered” in what sense? Significance?)

-         Norse expeditions – significance?

-         Conquistadors –(Cortes, Pizarro) Significance of conquests?

-         Blending of cultures – who benefited? (natives, Europeans, both?)

-         Bartolome de Las Casas – importance?

-         African Slave Trade – how did European participation change slave trade? 

What is the Middle Passage? Who were slaves?

First European country involved?

-         Explorers

§        Columbus

§        Amerigo Vespucci

§        John Cabot

§        Vasco Nunez de Balboa

§        Vasco do Gama

§        Ferdinand Magellan

§        Samuel de Champlain

§        Peter Minuit

§        Sir Walter Raleigh

§        John Smith

-         Northwest Passage – Failed attempts led to what?

-         Competition between Europeans – land, resources, fur trade

-         Native Americans – impact? (disease, war, fur trade wipes out animals, attempts to convert to Christianity, alcohol, guns, forced off land, many years of conflict, biological exchange)

-         Roanoke – lost colony? 

-         Jamestown – first permanent English settlement – Problems?  Solutions?

-         Representative Government – House of Burgesses? Ideas that contributed?

-         New arrivals – Women? Africans? Pilgrims (religious reasons?)

 

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