Guided ReadingActivity
SS8H1b Evaluate the impact of European contact on Native American cultures including the Spanish missions along the Barrier Islands, and the exploration of De Soto
SS8H1c Explain reasons for European exploration and settlement in North America, with emphasis on the interests of the French, Spanish, and English in the southeastern area.
1. In the three centuries from 1100 to 1400 A.D., many changes took place in Western______that put the countries on the path to the ______.
2. These changes included a greater desire for ______with ______and a rebirth of learning and curiosity.
3. By the 1400s, European nations began to ______and later
______other lands. They wanted greater ______, theysought greater ______and power, and they hoped to spread
______beliefs to other areas of the world.
5. Their main interest was trade with Asia, including areas now known as India,
______and the islands of the ______.
6. Originally, traders had to make the long trips across ______to the Middle East and then through the ______region. Western Europeanswanted to find a ______route for this trade.
7. European countries were developing stronger nations with central governments ruled by ______(kings and queens) who could afford to finance______and who wanted to increase their own ______andpower.
8. One of the first effects of Spanish contact with the ______of the Americaswas the exchange that began in ______. ______and______began to cross the ocean.
9. Horses, ______, cows, ______, and other animals came from the Old World to the Americas, as did ______, rice, and ______.
10. Corn, ______, tomatoes, and ______left theAmericas for Europe.
11. Other biological transfers were the microscopic ______and ______which the Europeans brought with them.
12. They [Europeans] had built up ______, which made their bodies more able to fight the ______.
13. The worst diseases that were transferred were smallpox, ______, andinfluenza.
14. Historians estimate that as much as ______percent of the population of
______Americans ______out within a century or two of the
European arrival ______mainly to disease, but also to war and starvation.
15. Since the Europeans saw themselves and their ______as civilized, they oftenwrote of the native peoples as "______."
16. The first major exploration of the ______area was not until the spring of1540 when Hernando ______left Florida with over six hundred soldiers anda couple hundred horses in search of ______.
17. De Soto found no ______or ______in Georgia.
18. The ______tried to plant a colony in South ______.
19. The Spanish had not founded colonies in the area yet, but they did not want the______there.
20. So they sent Pedro Menéndez ______to destroy the French colony. Menendez then established the first ______Spanish settlement inAmerica ______,
21. In 1565,he met an Indian chief name ______(pronounced Wah-lee) on one of thesea islands off Georgia's coast. He named the whole area for that chief, so Georgiaunder ______control was known as Guale.
22. The Spanish decided that this ______would be the northern part of their ______colony.
23. In the 1500s, they began to set up ______, where ______could live and work in major Indian towns. The priests came to ______the Indians to the ______religion as it was practiced by______and to teach them Spanish ______.
24. The Spanish mission era began to ______by the middle and late1600s, in part because the Indian ______.
Further exploration in the 1600s took the French to the head of the
______River and then down that river to the Gulf of
______.
25. This resulted in French ______with the Indians of the lower MississippiRiver area, especially the ______.