People
Italian explorer and navigator who made voyages to the Caribbean and South America and was considered to "discover" America
Christopher Columbus
Spanish conquerors
Conquistadors
Where did the Mayans live?
Yucatan Peninsula-Central America
When was the Age of Exploration?
A period from 15th to the 17th century
1400s-1600s
Tenochtitlan is modern day?
Mexico City
Portuguese explorer who succeeded in encircling the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
exchange of plants, animals, and disease between Europe and the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Were the three civilizations polytheistic or monotheistic?
Polytheistic
What was the Age of Exploration?
Europeans explored the world by ocean
Why did the Aztecs do human sacrifice?
To give the sun strength to rise each day.
Genoese mariner explored enough of South America's coast to deem it a new continent and mapmakers began to call the new continents by a version of his name-America
Amerigo Vespucci
Low bridges connecting an island to land
Causeway
The valley of Mexico -Central Mexico
Who was part of the Age of Exploration?
Columbus, Magellan, Cabot, Cortes
What happened to Aztecs?
Spanish conquistadors led by Hernan Cortes conquered Tenochtitlan and defeated Aztecs.
Aztec ruler
Moctezuma
Group of lands ruled by one leader
Empire
What was Aztecs capital?
Tenochtitlan
How were they able to succeed with traveling?
New technology:
Astrolabe
Compass
Caravel
Where did Inca live?
Andes Mountain region-South America
Spanish conquistador led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire
Hernan Cortes
period of extreme cold when ice covered a lot of land
Ice Age
How did explorers determine latitude?
Astrolabe
What were some of the Inca's accomplishments?
Medical advances
successful skull surgery
used medicines to make patients unconscious during surgery
Stone temples without using mortars
Massive road network