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An explorer who fought and subdued the Aztecs.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This economic system encourages private ownership of most businesses.
What is capitalism?
People who take financial risk to make profits.
What is entrepreneurs?
In 1607, the English established their first permanent colony in the Americas at this location.
What is Jamestown, Virginia.
This civilization was located in South America along the Andes Mountains and established an intricate road system that included hanging rope bridges.
Who are the Incas?
He was an Aztec emperor.
Who is Moctezuma?
A system used to force Native Americans to labor under brutal conditions.
What is encomiendas?
This set out guidelines for governing the Plymouth colony.
What is The Mayflower Compact ?
This European power had colonies in present day Texas, Florida, Mexico, Peru, and on some Caribbean Islands.
Who is Spain?
This civilization conquered most of Mexico after the decline of the Mayans. This civilization was extremely wealthy and conquered many people that were used as sacrifices to their many gods.
Who are the Aztecs?
This conquistador led an expedition to the New World and in 1532 conquered the Incas.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Those who ruled Spain’s colonies in the name of the Spanish monarchs.
What is viceroys?
These foods were first introduced to the Americas by Europeans through the Columbian Exchange?
What is wheat and grapes?
Millions of Europeans migrated here in response to colonization and the Triangular Trade.
What is the Americas?
This civilization was located on the Yucatan Peninsula and developed a hieroglyphic writing system and an accurate calendar.
Who were the Mayans?
He claimed much of present-day eastern Canada
for France
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The period in European history in the 1500s when rising inflation rose rapidly is known as this.
What is the price revolution?
A national economic policy that is designed to maximize the trade of a nation and, historically, to maximize the accumulation of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
This European super power, famous for fur trading and their relations with Native Americans, had colonies in Canada that stretched west of the Mississippi river south to Louisiana.
What is France?
This civilization is considered to be the "Mother culture" of Mesoamerica. The are famous for their smiling jaguars that later inspired other cultures like the Mayans.
Who were the Olmecs?
This explorer accidentally discovered La Florida while looking for the Fountain of Youth.
Who is Juan Ponce De Leon?
At the top of Spanish colonial society were the
What is peninsulares?
What is an estimate of the number of Africans that probably died in passage to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade?
What is 2 million?
In 1521, after a brutal struggle, Cortes and his Indian allies were able to capture this city, also known as the capital of the Aztec empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This ancient civilization created a ball game that was considered sacred to the gods. The Mayans later picked up this game - though the losing team was often sacrificed.
Who were the Zapotec?