The Americas
land bridge from Asia to North America
Bering Strait
•Extensive road system links the country together
Inca
terrace farming was used by which civilization ?
Incas
What forced Europe to go out and explore new routes to Asia, leading to their finding of the Americas?
The Fall of Constantinople 1453
Name all 3 motivated individual Europeans to explore the world
Gold, God, Glory
Olmec means
rubber people
Chinampas were man made farm plots built on the marshy fringes of the lake
Which Civilization ?
Aztec
Drank a lot of chocolate from gold cups. Caught the eye of Cortez.
Montezuma II
America was named after him. (Need last name for sure)
Amerigo Vespucci
global transfer of foods, plants, and animals between continents
Columbian Exchange
Tenochtitlan Aztec Capital - Modern location?
Mexico
Spanish conquistador that concord the Inca
Pizarro
When your political leader and your religious leader are the same =
theocracy
technological advances Europeans used to explore the world - give me 3 we put in our notes.
Better ships, Magnetic compass, Cartography – map making, Gunpowder, Metalwork,
5 European nations took the lead on exploration. Name 3 we talked about.
Dutch, English (Great Britain), French, Portuguese, Spanish
The Inca kept records using ___ a rope with knotted cords of different lengths and colors
quipu
Many believed in multiple gods. Term =
polytheistic
I concord the Aztecs, with a little luck as they thought I was a god.
Hernando (Hernan) Cortes
circumnavigation of the world - Must have last name
Ferdinand Magellan
Slave trade route across the Atlantic was called
The Middle Passage
Aztec & Mayans kept the gods happy how?
Human sacrifice
Codex- was a paper book the Mayans used. What was their language called?
hieroglyphic
What was the biggest weapon the Conquistadors brought with them?
Disease
Why were Africans seen as a better choice over Native Americans for slave labor?
Africans had complete immunity to all diseases, so they wouldn’t die off.
James town was the first success of the English in
1607