Encountering the New World

Step into the world of the early Americas with this quiz on the encounter between the Old World and the New. From the tales shared by Taino Indian Diego Colon to the impact of European institutions on Native American identities, test your knowledge on the complex and often violent mixing of peoples in the Atlantic world. Explore the role of disease, slavery, and warfare in shaping this new cultural universe while also learning about the ways in which Native peoples used the European presence to their advantage. Challenge yourself with this thought

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Questions and Answers

What did Columbus and the Europeans bring with them to the New World that reshaped the identities of Native American peoples?

Horses, new foods, and institutions of the church and state

What was the result of the mixing of peoples from the Atlantic basin during the first century and a half after 1492?

The creation of a hybrid cultural universe of the Atlantic world

What advantage did Europeans have in warfare during the encounter between the Old World and the New?

They had access to more advanced weaponry and technology

What factors contributed to the large-scale death of Native peoples during the encounter between the Old World and the New?

Disease and epidemics Signup and view all the answers

When did the Spanish introduce African slavery into Hispaniola?

1501 Signup and view all the answers

How did the natives make use of the European presence in America to forward their own aims?

They played European powers against each other to maintain their own autonomy and power Signup and view all the answers

What was the Catawba?

A new political group created by remnant peoples banded together in the early eighteenth century Signup and view all the answers

What does the story of Diego Colon remind us about the encounter between the Old World and the New?

That discovery was mutual rather than one-sided Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

A Taino Indian named Diego Colon returned to Spain with Columbus and told tales of the New World full of marvels.
Columbus and the Europeans brought with them horses, new foods, and institutions of the church and state that reshaped the identities of Native American peoples.
The mixing of peoples from the Atlantic basin during the first century and a half after 1492 produced the hybrid cultural universe of the Atlantic world.
Europeans had the technological edge in warfare, and violence often swallowed up the primal wonder glimpsed in the earliest documents.
Native peoples began to die in large numbers from enslavement, mistreatment, despair, disease, and epidemics that smallpox, measles, and typhus unleashed on them.
The Spanish introduced African slavery into Hispaniola as early as 1501.
The natives made shrewd use of the European presence in America to forward their own aims.
The Catawba, a new political group, was created by remnant peoples banded together in the early eighteenth century to deal more effectively with the encroaching Euro-Americans.
The story of Diego Colon reminds us that discovery was mutual rather than one-sided.
The encounter between the Old World and the New created a genuinely new set of social relationships that would evolve over the next centuries as Europe and the Americas continued to interact.