Starter quiz
- What was the name of the settlement England founded in the Americas in 1585?
- 'Roanoke' ✓
- What was produced in Jamestown which allowed English settlers to gain lots of wealth?
- corn
- gold
- sugar
- tobacco ✓
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- Match the key words with their correct definitions.
- colonisation⇔the process of taking control over another country ✓
- conquest⇔taking an area of land by force ✓
- convert⇔to change someone's beliefs ✓
- Write the missing word. After three wars with English settlers, the Powhatans were forced to live on ...
- 'reservations' ✓
- Identify the example which best demonstrates European and Native American co-operation.
- English settlers and the Powhatans fought one another three times.
- Spain conquered the Aztec Empire with support from indigenous allies. ✓
- Pocahontas was kidnapped by the English and converted to Christianity.
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- Why was the colonisation so devastating to the Native Americans?
- Conflict with Europeans was the main killer of Native Americans after 1492.
- Mistreatment of Native Americans by Europeans led to many indigenous deaths. ✓
- Native Americans lacked the skills and technology to defeat Europeans.
- The spread of diseases weakened native American resistance. ✓
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Exit quiz
- What percentage of Native Americans are estimated to have died in the century after Europeans arrived in the Americas in 1492?
- 50%
- 60%
- 70%
- 80% ✓
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- Which keyword means to change a person's beliefs?
- 'convert' ✓
- Write the missing word. The ______ Empire was indigenous to the Americas. Its largest city was Tenohctitlan.
- 'Aztec' ✓
- How did Europeans justify dispossessing Native Americans?
- Native Americans had different languages to Europeans.
- Native Americans had different laws to Europeans.
- Native Americans had different religions to Europeans. ✓
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- How did the English settlers at Jamestown survive their first winter in the Americas?
- brought enough supplies from England
- farmed enough supplies themselves
- fought the Powhatans for supplies
- provided with supplies by the Powhatans ✓
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- Why did European diseases kill so many Native Americans?
- Native Americans were purposefully infected by Europeans.
- Native Americans had poorer medical knowledge than Europeans.
- Native Americans lacked immunity to European diseases. ✓
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Key learning points
- European colonisation of the Americas had a range of devastating impacts.
- Europeans used religion to dispossess Native Americans and to change their culture.
- Conflict and disease had devastating impacts on Native American peoples.
- European colonisation involved exploitation of Native American peoples.
Common misconception
Europeans conquered the Americas easily because they had better weapons and technology.
European diseases killed and weakened many Native Americans, undermining indigenous resistance to European conquest.
Keywords
Native americans - Native Americans are members of any of the peoples who were the original inhabitants of North and South America and the Caribbean Islands
Devastation - devastation refers to great destruction or damage
Dispossession - dispossession is the action of taking someone’s land away.
Exploitation - treating people unfairly or cruelly for your own benefit is called exploitation
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