AMERICA BEFORE 1492
What was the name of the capital city of the Aztec empire?
Tenochtitlán
What was the main item Europeans were trading with the East Indies for?
Spices
Apart from wealth, economic and military competition, what else motivated European nations to explore and conquer the New World?
Spreading Christianity.
The establishment of distant settlements controlled by a mother country is a system we know as?
Colonization
The spread of maize cultivation took place in which present-day country?
Mexico.
Which hypothesis states that it was European stone Age people that crossed the Atlantic ocean by foot due to a glaciation period?
Solutrean hypothesis
What was the name of the Chinese emperor that Marco Polo is said to have met?
Kublai khan
Other than improvements in maritime technology what else helped drive changes to economies in Europe and the Americas?
Joint-stock companies.
The main economic system of the 16th century was known as?
Mercantilism
What type of lifestyle did societies of the Great Basin and the grasslands of the western Great Plains develop?
Mobile (nomadic) lifestyles.
What is the name of the empire that was located in present day Perú?
Inca empire
What was the name of the African empire that Portugal entered into contact with?
Songhai empire
What was the name of the skin disease that quickly spread all throughout the American continent?
Smallpox
Who did European traders partner with in order to extract slave labor for the Americas?
West Africans.
Apart from slaves, what else were the Portuguese interested in with regards to Western Africa?
Gold
When he first arrived in Yucatán (present day Mexico), who did the Aztecs think Hernán Cortés was?
Their god Quetzalcoatl
What was the name of the last muslim kingdom in Spain?
Granada
Bringing African slaves to America was done through a voage known as?
The Middle Passage
What year in history marks the decline of Italian importance in Europe?
1492
Apart from plantation-based agriculture for what other use did the Spaniards marshal Native American labor for?
Extraction of precious metals.
What materials did the Asians that sailed to the Americas build their boats with?
Animal bones, and animal hides (skin)
What was the name of the Spanish queen that funded Columbus´voyage to the Americas?
Isabel
What was the name given to the carefully defined status of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans in the Spanish empire?
Caste system.
Apart from Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands, what other European country will establish colonies in the American continent?
England
What is the name given to the significant social, cultural, and political changes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean after 1492?
Columbian exchange.