The sea in which the Caribbean islands are located.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
The place from where Native Americans walked to North America.
What is Asia?
The man who sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The continents mostly associated with the connection created by the Columbian Exchange.
What are the Americas, Europe, and Africa?
An engineering achievement which required a country to gain independence from Colombia with the support of the United States.
What is the Panama Canal?
It is the largest country in Central America and the Caribbean.
What is Mexico?
The name of the largest Aztec city.
What is Tenochtitlan?
He was the Spanish conquistador that overthrew the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The trade network between the Americas, Europe, and Africa (involved the enslavement of Africans).
What is the triangular trade?
The Caribbean country that became communist in 1959.
What is Cuba?
It is the largest Caribbean island.
What is Cuba?
An idea or object used by the Mayans to understand time.
What is the Mayan calendar?
The Aztec leader.
Who is Moctezuma?
The disease that killed the majority of Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
The Spanish and French speaking countries that are located on the island of Hispaniola.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
The country directly north of Panama.
What is Costa Rica?
The group known for creating the first writing system in the Americas.
Who were the Zapotec?
The penisulares.
The people in New Spain that had been born in Spain (top of the social structure).
Chickens, horses and cows.
What are animals brought to the Americas by the Columbian Exchange?
The territory lost by Mexico in the Mexican Cession.
What is California and the Southwest of America (USA)?
The large peninsula in southern Mexico.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Feathers of a tropical bird used by the Mayans in trade networks.
What are quetzal feathers?
To change the religion of someone into Christianity (done by Catholic Spanish priests in New Spain).
What is convert?
Because of the Columbian Exchange. (Questions may very)
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The term used to describe the spread of cultural traits.
What is cultural diffusion?