Columbus first landed at these two islands in 1492.
What is Hispaniola and Cuba?
100
Mesoamerica refers to these two areas.
What is Mexico and Central America?
100
Reason why natives could no longer be used as slaves in large numbers.
What is lack of immunity to European diseases?
100
A food item that was sent from the Americas to Europe that had been completely foreign to Europeans.
What are tomatoes, potatoes, corn, pumpkin, squash?
100
This society created a Long Count calendar that predicted the end of the world would be on December 23, 2012.
Who are the Mayans?
200
This explorer voyaged to the New England coastline of the Americas for England.
Who is John Cabot?
200
The Aztecs occupied this present-day country between the 1100s and 1500s when they were powerful.
What is Mexico?
200
Africans were sent by Europeans to the Americas to work here.
What are sugar plantations?
200
This conquistador conquered the Aztec in 1521.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
The Mayan Empire was located on the ____________ peninsula.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
300
The three g's of European motivation to explore the Atlantic world.
What is gold, glory, and God?
300
An animal that was sent from Europe to the Americas in the Columbian exchange that was completely foreign to the Americas.
What are pigs, horses, sheep, cattle?
300
African elites sold fellow Africans into bondage often in exchange for this product.
What are guns and gunpowder?
300
The Aztec believed that Cortes was sent to them from this god that represented the sun.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
300
The leader of the Aztec Empire during the 1500s.
Who is Montezuma?
400
The agreement between Spain and Portugal that divided the "New World" into Spanish territory in the West and Portuguese territory in the East.
What is the Treat of Tordesillas?
400
The first explorer to circumnavigate the globe went around the southernmost part of South America to complete his journey.
Who is Magellan?
400
One of the reasons why Africans were used in the slave trade was because this group of forced labor was too expensive and only temporary.
Who are indentured servants?
400
This concept represented the reputation of the Spanish as particularly brutal conquerors of the Native Americans.
What is the Black Legend?
400
The Aztec built their capital city at this site which is now Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
An economic theory that was popular during the Age of Exploration. It stated that countries should use their colonies to extract as much gold and silver as possible.
What is mercantilism?
500
The site of the major Inca city of Cuzco became this future capital city of Peru after Pizarro conquered the Inca.
What is Lima?
500
In the triangular trade, Europe received these types of products from the Americas.
What are cash crops: tobacco, cotton, sugar, rice, etc.
500
This disease was particularly devastating to native populations in the Americas.
What is smallpox?
500
The Incan Empire was founded by this leader who united several different territories into an empire along the western coast of South America.