Name Period Video: America Before Columbus Date 1. What types of natural wealth were in the Americas before Europeans arrived? Europe- 2. How did the nobles in Europe gain their wealth? What problem has occurred in the 1400s with obtaining more of this wealth? 3. How large was the population of Europe in the 1400s? What was the problem with the large population? 4. What did most people in Europe eat? 5. What two things allowed the European population to grow? 6. What are the Big 5?
The Americas- 7. How many people are living in the Americas? 8. What type of people live along the Mississippi River? What made this group so successful? 9. What is so special about this crop? How did it develop? Mesoamerica/South America- 10. What food fueled the Incan civilization and allowed it to grow? 11. How did this food protect against crop failure and famine? 12. What domestic animal do the Inca use? What did they use the animal for besides farming? 13. What animal is domesticated by the Aztecs? Hunting- 14. What do Native Americans notice about growing grasses on the Plains? 15. What animal is the main source of food, clothing and tools on the Plains?
16. How do Native Americans hunt large animals? Describe the process and the tools. 17. What is different about hunting in Europe? 18. What do many people in Europe eat for protein? What problem develops with this natural resource? Other Regions 19. What types of resources come from the Amazon basin? 20. What are the Anasazi known for making? 21. What happened to the Anasazi s environment? Did they have a hand in this decline? Explain. No agriculture means no. 22. What is Europe s most important and most used natural resource? What is this resource used for?
23. What is the richest city in Europe? How do they overuse the resource? PART TWO Europe 1. What major invention helped spread ideas around Europe? 2. Some explorers try to go around to find the sea route to India. Explorers- Columbus- 3. Who decides to finance Columbus s trip into the unknown? What do they have to gain from the exploration? 4. What type of men agree to sail with Columbus? 5. What is missing from the India that Columbus thinks he found? 6. How much bigger are the American continents than Europe? 7. In his letter to Isabella, what does Columbus describe that he has found? Spanish Conquistadors 8. What type of men become desperados or conquistadors? 9. What animal do the Spanish bring that did not exist in the Americas? 10. How long does it take for the Spanish to wipe out the mighty empires of the Aztecs and the Incas?
11. What new breed is formed from a few wild Spanish horses? 12. How many horses are there after only 150 years? 13. How does the introduction of the horse change life for Native Americans of the Great Plains? Introductions to the Americas 14. What do conquistadors like Hernando de Soto go north looking for? 15. What other new animal is introduced to the Americas? Why were they brought? 16. What is the problem with pigs for the Native Americans? 17. What do the pigs do to adapt to being wild in North America? How many pigs are there after only 20 years? Death to the Natives 18. What were some of the symptoms and problems resulting from small pox? 19. What do the Spaniards believe about God and the disease? 20. What are the estimates of those Natives that die of smallpox? Do people have to have contact with Europeans to contract the disease?
21. How does this disease help the Spanish, and later other Europeans, to conquer the Americas? Brought Back to Europe 22. What types of plants and crops are brought to Europe that were unknown there before the discovery of the Americas? 23. What disease are Europeans exposed to by their contact with Native Americans? England Strips the Americas 24. In 1607, the English start a colony in the area known as Their town is called after their king. 25. Since there was no gold or silver, what was a main resource that they found in North America? 26. What other resource did they find to replace another necessity that they had used up in Europe? 27. What do the English use the forests for? New Settlers 28. What are some of the reasons that people come to live, and not just to take from the Americas? 29. What are some new items that the English bring to North America?
30. What unintended changes in the Americas come with the new agriculture? 31. What is one of the cheapest foods in the Americas? 32. What types of trees do Europeans bring from home? Changing cultures- 33. What is the exchange of plants, goods, and diseases called? 34. What crop takes over cultivation in Europe? 35. How does this crop help the Irish and late the rest of the European population? 36. What are some of the luxury products that come from the Americas? 37. How do settlers in the Americas satisfy the demand for these goods? 38. In the New World what percentage of Native Americans died as a result of European arrival? I have watched the entire video. (sign here) I verify that the student has watched the video for himself/herself. Signature: (Adult s signature- parent, guardian, teacher, etc.)