Aztec
Capital city of the Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan?
The capital city of the Incan Empire
What is Cuzco?
The 3 motivations for conquest
What are Gold, Glory, and God?
The term for the exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases between the Americas and Europe
What is the Colombian Exchange?
Food the Aztecs known for cultivating extensively
What are maize, corn, and beans?
Writing system the Mayans develop
What is hieroglyphs?
Led the Spanish forces during the conquest of the Aztec Empire
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Old and New World
What are Europe (Old World) and the Americas (New World)?
Major ways the Aztec adapted to their location
What are built causeways, aqueducts, and chinampas?
Inca used these to keep records
What are quipo?
Maya agricultural techniques to produce more food
What are slash-and-burn, raised fields, and terraces?
Led the Spanish forces during the conquest of the Inca Empire
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Continent that received the most significant influx of silver during the Colombian Exchange
What is Europe?
Forced labor tax - making clothes/cloth for army, serving in army, working in mines, building roads, work on government farms, etc.
What is mita?
Mercantilism
What is an economic system where a colony exists for the benefit of the Mother Country?
Name one item that was introduced to the Americas as part of the Colombian Exchange
What are wheat, sugar cane, bananas, rice, grapes, dandelions, horses, pigs, cattle, goats, sheep, chickens, smallpox, measles, typhus?
Causes of Mayan decline
What are environmental damages, drought, warfare increased, and abuse of power by kings?
Purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas
What is it divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal?
Spain got control of the lands to the west of the line, Portugal got control of the lands east of the line.
Impact of the Colombian Exchange on the population of the Americas
What is it led to a significant decrease in the indigenous population due to introduced diseases?