Tribes that New England colonists encountered included the Wampanoag, Nipmuck Pocumtuc, Narragansett, Mohegans, and Mohawks. Other tribes in the area were the Massachusett, Nauset, East and West Niantic, Pequot, Tunvis, Paugusett, Massabesic, Quinnipiac, as well as more. 
     The Wampanoag, Nipmuck Pocumtuc, and Narragansett tribes fought against the New England settlers in the first Indian War. The Mohegans and Mohawks were tribes allied with the settlers and fought with them in the first Indian War.  

     The relationship that the British settling in New England and Native Americans had was originally very good. The settlers wanted to build relationships and an infrastructure and the Native Americans wanted to build an alliance. They created a relationship built on trade and their devotion to spirituality. However, smallpox and other diseases that were unknowingly brought on ships from Britain began to kill large amounts of the Native American population. This greatly damaged their relationship. This was used as an excuse to convert Native Americans to Christianity and settlers began to believe that this disease was a sign that they were meant to have the land. Conflict and the execution of three Wampanoag people, lead to the first Indian War. What was another name for the first Indian War? This war lasted 14 months (1675 - 1676) and was one of the deadliest in american history. To finally end it, a treaty was signed in April of 1678. 
     Before Puritans forcibly converted Native Americans, they were urged to live in "praying towns." These were towns specifically established to convert Native Americans to Christianity. They even translated the bible from english to algonquian so Native Americans could read it. Unfortunately though, not everything stayed was as happy and civil. Puritans in Massachusetts allied with the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes again the Pequot. Without their allied tribes knowing of their plan, the puritans massacred many of the Pequot people.

One of the main goals of the Spanish empire wanting to have colonies in the newly discovered Americas was so they could acquire new wealth from agriculture and mining  precious metals such as gold and silver. They used the Encomienda system to control the native people and have them perform the manual labor required for the Spanish people to become rich. When the Encomienda system was no longer in place, the Spanish switched to using African slaves to do all of their work for them with no effort of their own. Another major goal of the Spanish in creating colonies in the Americas is that they hoped to convert large numbers of native people to Christianity. Their attempts to convert the native people were met with varying results: some natives fully converted and began practicing Christianity, some converted to Christianity but still practiced their original religion, and some native people outright refused to convert to Christianity at all. Since Spain had funded Columbus's first trip to the Americas, they wanted to claim as much land as they possibly could since they believed it rightfully was theirs since, as a country, they were there before any other country. 

Mission System- missions established by the Spanish to convert the natives to Christianity sometimes by force. These missions were meant to influence the native people by giving them religious and cultural guidance and instruction.

The Columbian Exchange- the exchange of goods, organisms, and diseases between the Old World and the New World after the New World was discovered by Columbus.

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella- helped finance Columbus’ journey.
Christopher Columbus- Was originally trying to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia but instead ended up traveling to the Americas.
Hernan Cortes - Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico

Francisco Pizarro - Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire in Peru

Tenochtitlan - The capital city of the Aztec Empire