Core concepts 1
The condition of the air and sky at a certain time.
What is weather?
Height above sea level.
What is altitude?
Spanish for "towns."
What is pueblos?
He sought the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
Who is Gilgamesh?
A measure of how hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
Areas between the high and low latitudes.
What are temperate zones/middle latitudes?
The top of the social hierarchy in New Spain; born in Spain to Spanish parents.
What are peninsulares?
First European to sail around the Cape of Storms/Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
This is the capital of Peru
What is Lima?
The average weather of a place over many years.
What is climate?
Areas North of the Arctic Circle or South of the Antarctic Circle.
What are the Polar Zones/High Latitudes?
People of mixed race background between Native Americans and Spanish settlers.
What are Mestizos?
This royal couple agreed to fund Columbus' voyages to the New World.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
This sixteenth President was famously assassinated at Ford's Theater with his wife, Mary Todd.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Water that falls to the ground as rain, sleet, snow or hail.
Process in which liquid changes to gas.
What is evaporation?
People born into the Spanish colonies who had Spanish parents.
Who are creoles?
This famous explorer was killed in the Philippines after many attempts at mutiny by his crew.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
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The Aztecs believed Cortes and his men to be the reincarnation of this god.
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Who is Quetzalcoatl?
Areas between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
What are tropics/low latitudes?
The movement of water from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back.
What is the water cycle?
Land grant system that allowed Spanish settlers to conscript Native Americans and force them to work for Spanish settlers.
What is Encomienda System?
Name the three "G's" the Spanish sought in the New World.
What are God, Gold and Glory?
A successful Russian peasant farmer who was persecuted by Stalin.
What is a Kulak?