| A | B |
|---|
| Assimilation | policy encouraging one group of people to mix with another |
| Conquistadors | Spanish adventurers who colonised Central America |
| Genocide | deliberate killing of a race of people |
| New World | the name given to the Americas |
| Treaties | agreements made between governments |
| Colony | place or country ruled by another country |
| Discrimination | unfair treatment |
| Racist | person who believes that certain races are better than others |
| Immunity | resistance to disease |
| Indigenous | born in or natural to a place |
| First Nation | Canadian Native American peoples |
| Great Spirit | Native American creator of all life |
| Shaman | person with strong supernatual powers |
| Tipi | tent like house used by the Plains people |
| circle of life | Native American belief that all life revolves in a cycle |
| indian | another term used for Native Americans |
| nomad | person who moves around |
| ancestors | forefathers; relative who lived before you |
| Vikings | discoverers of America in 1001 AD |
| Enslavement | process of forcing people into slavery |
| Columbus | discoverer of America in 1492 |
| Spices | highly prized by Europeans to flavour their food |
| Gold | metal highly desired by the Europeans |
| disease | this killed millions of indigenous peoples after contact |
| land | one of the main reasons indigenous people were killed |
| exploration | seeking new land and resources |
| Spain | country that sponsored Columbus' voyage of discovery to America |
| Aztecs | Central American people who ruled the land in the 16th century AD |
| Tobacco | leaves smoked by the Aztecs |
| Cortes | Spanish adventurer who defeated the Aztecs |
| Plains | name given to the different groups of Native Americans who lived in central Nth America |
| Buffalo | animal mainly hunted by the Plains peoples |
| Horses | animal introduced by the Spanish and used by Native American peoples |
| manifest destiny | term used by the leaders of the United States to refer to the spread of colonisation over Nth American continent |
| Cherokee | Native American nation forced off its lands in Georgia leading the the Trail of Tears |
| Massacre | large scale killing |
| Reservations | land set aside for indigenous people to live |
| Sioux | Native Americans from Dakota |
| Custer | General who was killed by the Sioux at Wounded Knee |
