The Aztec Empire
The Aztec Empire was located in this present-day country.
What is Mexico?
The Inca Empire was located in this present-day country.
What is Peru?
This time period means rebirth.
What is the Renaissance?
These two monarchs sponspored Columbus in his exploration of the New World.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
All the plants, animals, goods, and diseaess that crossed the Atlantic, and sometimes the Pacific.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Franciscan friar worked with a team of researchers to record the history of the Aztec people.
Who is Bernardino de Sahagun?
This system of record keeping used knots on strings to record the poplation.
What is quipu?
Movement that focused on individual achievement.
What is humanism?
Established a dividing line between Portugal and Spain for newly discovered land.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This disease had the most devastating effect on the Americas.
What is smallpox?
This was the capital city of the Aztec empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
These Andean kin groups worked the land in zones as a hedge against crop failure in any one zone.
What are ayllu?
Printed the first European book using movable type.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
The two Spanish conquistadors that conquered the Aztec and Inca empire respectively.
Who are Cortes and Pizarro?
This disease from the Americas affected Europe.
What is syphilis?
They had a complex calendrical system, built large stone monuments, and played a ritual ball game.
Who are the Nahua peoples?
The name of the Inca ruler who claimed descent from the sun-god.
Who is Sapa Inca?
Portuguese sailor that created schools to instruct sailors.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
What is the encomienda system?
These two crops played an important role throughout AFro-Eurasia.
What are corn and potatoes?
There were fifty states of these that occupied central Mexico with own government and leader.
What are altepetl?
These were the three tiers of the aristocracy of the Inca.
What are close relatives of the ruler and previous rulers, more distant relatives, and the leaders of the groups the Inca had conquered?
This nation was responsible for the African slave trade in the mid-fifteenth century.
What is Portugal?
What are 1) those born in Europe who served as military leaders, royal officials, or church figures, 2) creoles (two European parents born in the Americas), 3) those of mixed descent, 4) Amerindians and African slaves?
These two successful agricultural enterprises had spread throughout the Americas.
What are sugar and cattle raising?