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When Cultures Meet - first half

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The Native Americans introduced the settlers to many new foods such as _____________. It turned into the most important crop grown by the settlers.

corn

The Native Americans used a system called _________ to plant crops.

hilling

European settlers used to throw seeds into the ground when growing crops, this was a problem because of __________________.

birds and animals

The "three sisters" to the Native Americans were _______________.

Squash, beans and corn

Name 3 animals that the settlers had never seen before arriving in America.

Elk, buffalo, turkey

About 50 million buffalo once roamed North America, by 1889, there were only around ____________ left.

1000

Name 2 ways that the Native Americans used Buffalo's to survive.

Meat for food. Skin to make shelter/bedding/clothing. Bones and horns to make tools.

Name 3 types of animals the settlers brought with them to North America.

Goat, cow, sheep and pig.

Why were pigs bad?

Destroyed plants/animals that were native by trampling grasses and eating by digging roots. They also ate baby birds/shellfish/fruits.

One Spanish explorer reported that in 16 years he had seen a herd of pigs increase from 24 to ________________.

30,000

One animals would change forever how the Native Americans lived, it was the _________.

horse

The Native Americans used ______ from the sheep and goats to make blankets and clothing.

wool

Native Americans had been living in these "new" lands for more than _______ years.

10,000

The Europeans arrived in these "new" lands in the late _______s.

1400s