Starter quiz
- Who did Spain sponsor to sail across the Atlantic?
- Marco Polo
- Christopher Columbus ✓
- Vasco da Gama
- Ferdinand Magellan
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- Write the missing word: The Americas were also referred to as Europeans as the __________ World.
- 'New' ✓
- Match the definitions with their correct defintions.
- settlement⇔creating new communities in an area ✓
- empire⇔group of countries ruled by one ruler or one single group ✓
- conquest⇔taking land by force ✓
- Which empire's growth motivated Europeans to search for direct sea routes to Asia?
- Aztec
- Chinese
- Mali
- Ottoman ✓
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- Why can the Taino nation be described as indigenous to Hispaniola?
- speak Spanish
- biggest group on the island
- original inhabitants of the island ✓
- richest inhabitants of the island
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- Identify an example that shows Spanish settlement in Hispaniola was interested in gaining wealth.
- The Spanish built churches for the indigenous population.
- The Spanish forced Tainos to work in mines. ✓
- The Spanish monarchs claimed to control the island.
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Exit quiz
- What caused the most deaths of Native Americans as a result of Europeans arriving in the Americas?
- conflict and war with Europeans
- mistreatment by Europeans
- diseases from Europeans ✓
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- Write the missing word: Millions of Native Americans died from European diseases because they lacked __________.
- 'immunity' ✓
- Why did Europeans argue that it was justified to dispossess Native Americans?
- Native Americans were not Christians ✓
- Native Americans had sold their land
- Native Americans had stolen the land
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- How did Spain become wealthy from Potosi?
- traded with Native Americans there
- created factories and workshops there
- forced Native Americans to mine for silver there ✓
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- Sort the events into chronological order.
- 1⇔Columbus arrives in the Americas.
- 2⇔Smallpox first reaches the Americas.
- 3⇔Smallpox spreads through Tenochtitlan and the rest of the Aztec Empire.
- 4⇔Spanish explorers and soldiers conquer the Aztec Empire.
- 5⇔Spain becomes the most powerful country in the Americas.
- Identify the two examples of indigenous resistance to complete Spanish control.
- Some indigenous nations allied with the Spanish against the Aztecs.
- The Maya mixed Christianity with their own pre-existing religious beliefs. ✓
- The Aztecs and other nations fought against Spanish attempts at conquest. ✓
- Over one million Native Americans died working in the silver mines at Potosí.
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Key learning points
- Europeans settled in the New World by taking land from the native peoples.
- Europeans believed they had a moral duty to convert Native Americans to Christianity and thus can take land.
- European conquests of land were often violent and pushed Native Americans out of their home lands.
- Europeans accidentally introduced new diseases into the land, killing around 80% of Native Americans.
- Indigenous beliefs and practices continued despite European attempts to remove them.
Common misconception
Pupils assume that European settlement completely destroyed indigenous communities.
Native Americans were devastated overall by European colonisation but indigenous communities persisted and were never completely overwhelmed.
Keywords
Dispossess - to dispossess someone is to take their land away
Indigenous - indigenous people are the original inhabitants of a specific area
Conquest - conquest involves taking an area of land by force; 'La Conquista' is the name for the Spanish conquest of the Americas
Immunity - if you have immunity to a disease you will not catch it
Convert - to convert someone is to change their beliefs
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