Historical Terms
These are two types of sources important to historians.
What are primary and secondary sources?
The Columbian Exchange is a process named after this person.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Name the existent trade networks that linked European consumers to Middle Eastern and Asian producers?
What are the Silk Roads?
Christopher Columbus came from this city-state.
What is Genoa?
The Aztec believed that _____ was essential to maintaining the world order.
What is blood sacrifice?
An autobiography.
What is a primary source?
The spice pepper came from this place.
What is India?
This commodity originated in China.
What is silk?
Columbus' ships encountered people from this ethnic group in the Caribbean.
Who were the Taino?
The Florentine Codex was supervised by Bernardino de Sahagun, a _______ missionary in Mexico.
What is Roman Catholic?
An encyclopedia entry.
What is a secondary source?
This animal aided Europeans in their conquest of Mexico.
What is the horse?
Columbus argued that sailing west from Europe would result in his arrival in this place.
What is India?
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
This Aztec god was described as the "feathered serpent."
What/Who is Quetzalcoatl?
Drawings, paintings, and photographs.
What are primary sources?
These two crops from the Americas fundamentally changed European diets.
What are maize (corn) and potatoes?
Many Europeans in the Renaissance still believed this about the Earth.
What is that it was flat?
This woman served as a translator for Hernan Cortes after his arrival in Mexico.
Who was Malinche?
The Aztec carried out religious rituals on the top of these structures.
What are pyramids?
Ancient human remains.
What are primary sources?
This pathogen was the only disease to travel from the Americas to Europe, Asia, and Africa.
What is syphilis?
What are gain wealth, territory, labor, and spread religious beliefs?
This man was the ruler of the Aztec empire in 1519.
Who was Moctezuma II?
The current capital of Mexico sits on top of this ancient Aztec capital.
What is Tenochtitlan?