Assignment 1: 1. THE AGE OF DISCOVERY Mesoamerica the Bering Strait Clovis blades mammoth mastodon The Ice Age Archaic Period Poverty Point the Anasazi Cahokia Mississippian Culture Tenochtitlan Leif Eriksson Prince Henry the Navigator Martin Luther Christopher Columbus San Salvador conquistadores Ferdinand MagellanJohn Cabot encomienda Henry VIII Giovanni da Verrazano the Incas John Calvin Hernan Cortes the Aztecs Francisco Pizarro Sir Francis Drake La Salle Vasco Nunez de Balboa Henry Hudson Adena Culture Juan Ponce de Leon Francisco de Coronado Hernando de Soto the Spice Trade Paleolithic revolution Jacques Cartier Columbian Exchange Treaty of Tordesillas maize Neolithic revolution The Hohokam Brazil Hopewell Culture Requerimiento Aztalan How and when did the first humans arrive in the Americas? How did they survive in a very hostile environment? What role did the cultivation of corn play in the cultural development of the original Americans? What impact did the arrival of Europeans have on the Native Americans in the New World? Where there differences in the attitudes and policies of the Spanish, French, and English towards the Native Americans? What were the factors that contributed to the discovery and exploration of America? Which European has the strongest claim for reaching America prior to Christopher Columbus? Why didn’t this earlier explorer’s discovery lead to a permanent European presence in America while Columbus’s discovery did? What was the purpose of Christopher Columbus’ voyage, and what miscalculations did he make in his theory for traveling to the Far East? How did America get its name? 1. COLONIZATION Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Humphrey Gilbert John Smith Jamestown London Company Separatists Mayflower Compact George Calvert Harvard William Penn St. Augustine Puritans Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Pocahontas William Bradford Opechancanough Squanto Plymouth Company James Oglethorpe Quakers Proprietary Colony New Amsterdam Pilgrims Act of Toleration headright tobacco John Winthrop Salem Witch Trials rice Indenture System House of Burgesses indigo Elizabeth I Sir Francis Drake The Armada Martin Frobisher Richard Hakluyt Philip II Royal Colonies New Sweden John Rolfe James I The Protestant Reformation Powhatan Peter Minuit The Anglican Church Charles I Joint Stock Companies predestination Roanoke The Triangular Trade How did the Protestant Reformation influence the English effort to establish colonies in America? How did the English colonial system differ from those of France and Spain? What were the differences in the founding, development, and characteristics of the Southern, New England, and Middle Colonies that constitute ...