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| Europeans explored the new world | to gain great wealth, land, resources and power for their countries |
| Reasons the Spanish came to the New World | to spread their religion, to claim land, to gain wealth |
| the Spanish motto | God, Gold, and Glory |
| More Spanish explorers came to the New World after | Columbus returned to Spain with natives, resources, and riches from the New World |
| Early colonists built settlements near Native Americans | to live close to natural resources and waterways in order to survive like the Native Americans |
| How Native Americans prepared the land for farming | cleared the land of trees using the slash and burn method |
| How Native Americans helped new colonists in the Americas | taught the colonists to hunt, fish, and plant crops |
| The first European country to begin searching for a water trade route to Asia | Portugal |
| The year Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World | 1492 |
| The years that Hernando DeSoto found the Mississippi River | 1541 |
| Colonists experienced problems such as | cold climate, attacks from hostile tribes, learning to find food |
| Native Americans died in Spanish settlements | due to hunger, overwork, and disease |
| How the death of many Native Americans affected New Spain | The Spanish brought Africans to the settlements as slaves to replace them |
| The relationship between the Spanish and the Aztecs | They enslaved and killed many, stole their wealth, & took their land |
| Both Native Americans and Africans | were enslaved by Europeans in the Americas |
| Missions and missionaries | changed the way the native people lived, worked, and worshipped |
| After missionaries came to New Spain | Native Americans began to practice Christianity |
| Inventions and resources that affected the lives of Native Americans | horses and gunpowder |
| The main purpose for Columbus's expedition | to find a shorter trade route to Asia |
| First explorer to find a water trade route to India | Vasco da Gama |
| Henry Hudson | searched for the Northwest Passage to Asia |
| Columbian Exchange | the importing and exporting of new species of plants and animals, new foods and diseases between the New World and the Old World |
| Diseases brought over during the Columbian Exchange | diseases killed many of the enslaved Native Americans causing a labor shortage |
| African slaves' labor | helped make European settlements very wealthy |
| Europeans treated Africans | very cruelly and were scared they would turn against them |
| How Native Americans helped European settlers | they taught Europeans to farm, make medicine, hunt and fish to survive |
| How European settlers help Native Americans | they traded useful goods and resources such as horses with the Native Americans |
| African people in 1550 | were imported to New Spain by the Spanish to replace the Native American slaves |
