Vocabulary
Being completely surrounded by land with no direct access to water
What is landlocked?
These are the who civilizations that lived in mesoamerica
What is Maya and Aztecs
This civilization created our calendar
What is the maya?
Most people in Latin America speak this language.
What is Spanish?
A trade between Europe, the Americas, and Africa
Triangular trade/Columbian Exchange
long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
What is a canal?
The place the ancient mayan lived
What is the Yucatan peninsula
Theory of what happened to the Mayans.
What is starvation and/or severe drought?
The 3 reasons for exploration to other places
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
An infectious disease spread through touch, blankets, and trade from the Europeans
What is Smallpox?
The cutting down of trees and forest
What is deforestation?
The main reason for using the slash and burn farming method
What is the fertilization using ashes?
Mayan religious belief system
What is polytheistic?
Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera are examples of this type of culture
What is art?
This was traded FROM Africa in attempt to use them for manual labor
Who are enslaved African people?
The process of setting up a territory under the control of a distant country
what is colonization?
A way of supplying water to a land
What is irrigation?
The story of why the Tenochitlan people lived on a swamp in the middle of a lake?
What is the Legend of the Gods telling a man to find a eagle holding a snake in it's mouth atop of a cactus
People who arrived in South America to spread Christianity
What is a missionary?
The main disease brought to the new world other than smallpox that killed many native people
What is malaria?
The meaning of censorship
What is the suppression of speech or other forms of public communication
The first and main theory of how humans migrated to North America
What is the land bridge?
This place is modern day Tenochitlan
What is Mexico City?
A cash crop
What is crops grown to sell to other countries.
Three countries that joined trade across continents after the start of the triangular trade
Who are Portugal, France, and Britain?