Civilizations of the America's
What is Mayan Empire
This term describes the movement of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange
This disease devastated the Aztec and Incan empires.
What is smallpox
This explorer reached the Caribbean in 1492, believing he had reached Asia.
Christopher Columbus
This economic theory said a nation’s power depended on its wealth.
What is Mercantilism
What grandfather civilization did the Mayans derive from?
What is the Olmecs
Which two crops were the most influential from the Columbian Exchange in boosting world population?
what is corn (maize) and potatoes?
Europeans believed Africans were suited for plantation work partly because they had some of this against European diseases.
What is immunity
What country came and conquered most of South America's empires?
This trade forcibly transported millions of Africans to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade
This empire practiced human sacrifice and was known as a tribute empire
Aztec Empire
This negative effect of the Columbian Exchange caused millions of Native American deaths.
What is disease?
This epidemic helped Cortés defeat the Aztecs.
What is smallpox
Who explored Africa in search of gold and spices
who is Prince Henry the Navigator
This trade route was between the New World and the Old World
What is the Columbian Trade
What is the record keeping strategy that involved strings and knots
What is Quipi
This New World crop became especially important in Ireland and helped feed Europe’s growing population.
What is the potato
Disease spread before the Spanish arrived, causing this in the Inca Empire.
What is a civil war (or death of the emperor leading to civil war)?
This conquistador captured Atahualpa and conquered the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro
This trading system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is triangular trade (Triangle Trade)?
This empire used Quipi as a way of record keeping, and they used terrace farming.
These grains were introduced to the Americas from Europe and became major crops in the colonies.
What are wheat and rice? (also barley or oats)
Other than smallpox name another disease that came from the old world to the new world.
This explorer proved the world was much larger than expected by sailing around the southern tip of South America and crossing the Pacific Ocean to the Philippines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Under mercantilism, a country tried to sell more goods than it did this.
What is buy