Geography
What is a An estate where crops are grown by labourers?
Plantation
The first man to "discover" the new world.
Christopher Columbus
An empire that ruled present-day Mexico and was conquered by Hernan Cortes.
Who are the Aztecs?
The widespread exchange of goods, precious metals, luxury items, culture, plants and animals.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
a sovereign state inhabited by a group of people who share a feeling of common nationality.
Nation-state
The spanish conquistador who explored mexico in the name of glory and wealth, and in consequence brought the ended of the aztec empire.
What is Hernan Cortes?
The hypothesis is that people first migrated to the Americas on the Bering land strait.
Bering strait hypothesis
Spanish government policy to give Indians to certain colonists in return for Christianizing them
What is the encomienda system?
This country helped to colonize south america and portions of north americas.
What is Spain the country?
The last of the Aztec rulers and who saw the destruction of his empire.
Monctezuma
What is the confederation of five native tribes across upper new york?
Iroquois Confederacy
What treaty was signed between Spain and Portugal, dividing up the New World territories?
What it the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The widespread exchange of goods, precious metals, luxury items, culture, plants, and animals.
What is the Columbian Exchange
A spanish missonary who documented the mistreatment of natives in the Spanish colonies and sought to abolish the encomienda system.
Who is Bartolome de las casas?
A battle fought between Spaniards and Pueblo Indians. Spaniards won and established territory in New Mexico.
Battle of Acoma
The Spanish government policy to give Indians to certain colonists in return for Christianizing them
what is Encomienda?