Mayans
What was the main staple of the Mayan Diet?
Maize
The Aztecs built their capital city on this Lake
Texcoco
What was the capital city of the Incan Empire?
Machu Pichu
This Chinese explorer led 7 expeditions with a giant fleet
Zheng He
Why did European explorers go exploring?
God, Glory, Gold
Who would be most important in Mayan society?
Priests
What was the name of the Mayan capital city?
Tenochtitlan
The Inca developed a type of farming on mountainsides called
Terrace farming
This English explorer found Australia and many other South Pacific islands, making tattoos popular among sailors
James Cook
According to mercantilism, the goal is to ______ more than ________
sell, buy
The Mayans used observatories to explore the...
Stars
Who was the Spanish conquistador that teamed with the Tlaxacans to defeat the Aztec?
Hernan Cortez
This vast network kept the Incan Empire connected
Roads
This explorer's crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
After the Europeans came to the Americas, many Natives died of
disease
What happened to the Mayan civilizations?
Nobody really knows for sure
Chinampas
What Spanish conquistador wiped out Incan civilzation?
Francisco Pizzaro
This explorer "found" the Americas
Christopher Columbus
Exploration became easier with the invention of these two things
astrolabe and compass
The Mayans used this type of writing system
Heiroglyphs
The Aztecs lived in what is nowadays called
Mexico
The Incas lived in what is nowadays
Peru
This French explorer explored Canada, there is a lake named after him
Samuel de Champlain
This was the slave trade portion of the Triangular Trade
Middle Passage