Maya, Inca, Aztecs
What is the name for the Maya stepped pyramids?
temples
Which new type of ship was crucial for long voyages?
caravel
Who was the Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs?
cortes
Who proposed the heliocentric theory of the solar system?
copernicus
Which French king was known as the "Sun King"?
louis xiv
What was the Aztec practice of human sacrifice often linked to?
religion
Which European country took the lead in early exploration along the African coast?
portugal
What later became the dominant forced labor system in many New World colonies?
slavery
What force did Isaac Newton explain with his laws?
gravity
What major European power was Napoleon's primary enemy?
great britain
What mountain range was the Inca Empire primarily located in?
andes
Which explorer is mistakenly credited with "discovering" the Americas?
global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases during colonization of the Americas
columbian exchange
What did John Locke argue all individuals possess?
natural rights
What title did Napoleon eventually take for himself in 1804?
emperor
What famous Inca city was located high in the Andes Mountains?
machu picchu
What European power conquered the Aztec and Inca empires?
spain
name of journey from Africa to the Americas on slave ships
middle passage
Which Enlightenment thinker stressed freedom of speech and freedom of religion?
voltaire
What machine was used for executions during the French Revolution?
guillotine
What was the capital city of the Aztec Empire?
tenochtitlan
Which explorer's crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
magellan
What disease brought by Europeans devastated Native American populations?
smallpox
What American document heavily reflects Enlightenment ideas?
declaration of independence
name of the era in the French Revolution in which Robespierre had "enemies of the revolution" executed-
reign of terror