Early Empires
The Ocean
The invaders
Tribes and Regions
Wild Card
100
As the Aztecs and Incas did in farming, this is the two word term used to describe man changing his environment to meet his needs.
What is environmental adaptation?
100
The first attempt to find a faster route to India and the far east was around this continent.
What is Africa?
100
These were created by the Spanish as a plantation like system that used slave labor and also attempted to convert natives to Christianity.
What is the encomeieda?
100
This grassy area runs from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
What are the Great Plains?
100
Early explorers were looking for the 3G's.
What is God, Glory, and Gold?
200
The Incas used this type of farming by creating step like indentations into mountains to grow food.
What is Terrace farming?
200
This man was given credit for discovering the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The was the term used to indicate that everything that the Spanish brought to the New World was bad.
What is the Black Legend?
200
This Indian tribe lived on the Great Plains in order to hunt Buffalo?
Who are the Sioux?
200
Where did the Portuguese slave trade begin.
What is Africa?
300
The Inca Empire was connect from the northern part of South America to the southern part with a series of these things.
What are roads?
300
This was the new Portuguese ship design that made it easier for explorers to sail towards the Americas.
What is the Caravel?
300
The disappearance of this empire is a mystery as no one knows why the people simply left the cities.
What is the Mayan?
300
This Indian tribe lived in the Southwest in Pueblos.
What is the Navajo?
300
The is the name for the new materials from the Americans that came to Europe and the new materials from Europe that came to the Americas.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
400
The ability to create theses, allowed for the early empires to create large cities.
What is large buildings?
400
Ships with better _________ and technology also may the Age of Exploration possible.
What is navigation?
400
The man is given credit for conquering the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
400
The region is located on the west coast of the United States and is mountainous.
What is Coastal Range?
400
This is the disease primarily responsible for a large portion of Indian deaths in the Americas.
What is Small Pox?
500
These are the earthen rafts on lakes that the Aztecs used in order to grow food.
What is chinampas?
500
This instrument made it possible to figure out the location of the ship.
What is astrolabe?
500
The Spanish man was given credit for destroying the Inca empire.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
500
This tribe lived in the eastern woodlands and was part of a confederation.
Who are the Iroquois?
500
Chinampas, although an advance way to farm, was vulnerable to these types of natural disasters.
What are floods?
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