Vocab
Entire way of life developed by a people.
culture
colony
To travel all the way around the world.
The study of people, their environments and resources.
geography
polytheistic
A group of five nations (the Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida & Cayuga), who formed an alliance to stop fighting, became known as
Iroquois League
This type of colony is under direct control of the English Crown.
The Silk Road
A map that shows boundaries of cities, states and countries.
political map
What is the capital of the Aztec Empire?
Tenochtitlan
A systemic way of analyzing a primary source.
MOTU
True or False: Georgia is on the the Border of Canada
False
What were the Spanish looking for when they began exploring in America?
The five themes of geography can be remembered using this trick.
MR. HELP
What civilization developed the concept of zero?
Mayan
A direct record left behind from the period, or by the people, who are the subject of the historian's study.
Name one reason that Europeans came to American to settle in the colonies.
Looking for: Land, religious freedom, to make money
Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the world?
Magellan
A map that shows the location of physical features such as landforms, bodies of water or resources.
What did the Aztec do to appease their gods?
offer human sacrifices
Books, essays, and articles historians write that are accounts of a period or a topic after an event has taken place.
secondary source
William Penn & the Quakers founded Pennsylvania on the principle of?
Religious Tolerance
Name 2 technologies that helped explorers during their mission find the new world?
Astrolabe, caravel, maps
Tell me one way that you use a map in your life.
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Why was the system of roads important to the Inca?
It connected the empire.