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Roanoke-In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to establish a settlement here, but it failed

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Roanoke-In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to establish a settlement here, but it failed

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Crusades-Series of military campaigns by European Christians from 1096 to 1204 to win control of the Holy Land from the Muslims

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Crusades-Series of military campaigns by European Christians from 1096 to 1204 to win control of the Holy Land from the Muslims

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Christopher Columbus- Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

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Christopher Columbus- Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

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Triangular Trade-involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities, which were in turn shipped back to Britain.

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Triangular Trade-involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities, which were in turn shipped back to Britain.

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Bartolome de Las Casas- A Catholic missionary who renounced the Spanish practice of coercively converting Indians and advocated the better treatment for them. In 1552, he wrote "A Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies", which described the Spanish's cruel treatment of the Indians.

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Bartolome de Las Casas- A Catholic missionary who renounced the Spanish practice of coercively converting Indians and advocated the better treatment for them. In 1552, he wrote "A Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies", which described the Spanish's cruel treatment of the Indians.

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Conquistadors- 16th century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas, from Colorado to Argentina, eventually conquering the Aztec and Incan empires.

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Conquistadors- 16th century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas, from Colorado to Argentina, eventually conquering the Aztec and Incan empires.

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Line of Demarcation-Boundary established by the Pope that gave unclaimed lands west of the line to Spain and east of it to Portugal

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Line of Demarcation-Boundary established by the Pope that gave unclaimed lands west of the line to Spain and east of it to Portugal

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Middle Passage- was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade

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Middle Passage- was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade

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Treaty of Tordesillas-A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

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Treaty of Tordesillas-A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

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Encomienda System-Spanish government's policy to "commend," or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the West Indies and on the North American mainland.

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Encomienda System-Spanish government's policy to "commend," or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the West Indies and on the North American mainland.

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Renaissance-A great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas in art, that began in Italy in the late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe

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Renaissance-A great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas in art, that began in Italy in the late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe

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Mississippi River Valley-In Eastern Woodlands; was an agricultural society; grew "3 sisters" crops (squash, beans, and corn); were mound builders

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Mississippi River Valley-In Eastern Woodlands; was an agricultural society; grew "3 sisters" crops (squash, beans, and corn); were mound builders

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Atlantic Seaboard-Societies developed a mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economy that favored the development of permanent villages

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Atlantic Seaboard-Societies developed a mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economy that favored the development of permanent villages

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Mayas- From A.D. 300 to 800, this highly developed civilization built large cities in what is today's southern Mexico and Guatemala.

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Mayas- From A.D. 300 to 800, this highly developed civilization built large cities in what is today's southern Mexico and Guatemala.

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Columbian Exchange- The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and Old World societies after 1492.

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Columbian Exchange- The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and Old World societies after 1492.

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Great Basin-Arid region of the southwest United States including Nevada, Arizona and Utah.                                  Great Plains-A vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, from the Mississippi River in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West.

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Great Basin-Arid region of the southwest United States including Nevada, Arizona and Utah.                                  Great Plains-A vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, from the Mississippi River in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West.

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Incas- This highly developed civilization developed a vast South American empire based in Peru. 

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Incas- This highly developed civilization developed a vast South American empire based in Peru. 

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Aztecs- Starting about 1300, this civilization flourished in central Mexico. 

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Aztecs- Starting about 1300, this civilization flourished in central Mexico. 