The American Yawp Chapter 1: Indigenous America | Questions and Answers with complete solution

Columbian Exchange - The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. Three Sisters - corn, beans, squash Matrilineal - relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother Pre-Columbian environmental disasters - Cahokia - an ancient settlement of southern Indians, located near present day St. Louis, it served as a trading center for 40,000 at its peak in A.D. 1200. Native American Slavery - At first Spanish settlers relied on forced labor of Native Americans to work their plantations. Kinship - A social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption Potlach - elaborate redistribution ceremony practiced among the Kwakiutl of the Pacific Northwest Crusades - Reconquista - Beginning in the eleventh century, military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated, and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.