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What is the significance of 1491?
Marks the period before Columbus's arrival, acknowledging complex Native American societies.
What is the significance of 1607?
Marks the establishment of Jamestown, the first successful permanent English colony in North America.
What was the impact of Columbus's arrival?
Marked the beginning of significant changes in the Americas, including disease, interaction, and enslavement.
What were the causes and effects of European diseases on Native Americans?
Cause: Lack of immunity in Native American populations. Effect: Decimation of Native American populations.
What were the causes and effects of the decline in Native American populations?
Cause: European diseases and conflict. Effect: Enslavement of Africans to meet labor demands.
Define Contextualization.
Understanding why events happened by considering the environment, events, and ideas that shaped them.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
A land bridge connecting Asia and North America, used by nomadic hunters to populate the Americas.
Define Columbian Exchange.
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Old World (Europe, Asia, Africa) and the New World (Americas).