Key Concept 1.1: As native populations migrated and settled across the vast expanse of North America over time, they developed distinct and increasingly complex societies by adapting to and transforming their diverse environments.
Sub Concept I: Different native societies adapted to and transformed their environments through innovations in agriculture, resource use, and social structure.
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A.) The spread of maize cultivation from present-day Mexico northward into the present-day American Southwest and beyond supported economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, and social diversification among societies.
Cultivation of corn along with squash and beans allowed for the typically mobile Native American tribes to become more
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A.) Spanish exploration and conquest of the Americas were accompanied and furthered by widespread deadly epidemics that devastated native populations and by the introduction of crops and animals not found in the Americas
Diseases such as Smallpox devastated native populations, making it easier for Spanish explorers to take over. They also introduced animals such as chickens, pigs, and horses to the native populations.
B) The encomienda system, Spanish colonial economies marshaled Native American labor to support plantation-based agriculture and extract precious metals and other resources.
By using the encomienda labor system spanish explorers enslaved Native Americans and got them to perform plant based agriculture for them and mine precious metals such as silver.
C) European traders partnered with some West African groups who practiced slavery to forcibly extract slave labor for the Americas. The Spanish imported enslaved Africans to labor in plantation agriculture and