Sea-Based Empires
What year did Columbus sail to the Americas?
What is 1492?
What plague originated in South Asia and spread through the silk road?
What is the bubonic plague?
What are the three Meso-American societies focused on in WHAP?
Who are the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans?
What is a conquistador?
What is a Spanish conqueror/explorer?
What are the four Ancient River Valley Civilizations?
What is Mesopotamia, Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, and Huang He River?
What was the largest, most powerful sea-based empire?
What is Portugal/British?
Name one city that began to rise between 1200-1450
Hint: Famous saying when you're going far
What is Timbuktu?
What were the Meso-Americans primary source of income?
What is trade?
What was the Atlantic Slave Trade?
What does Polytheistic mean?
What is to believe in or worship more than one God?
True or False
There was a Western Northern passage to India.
What is False?
What crop was vital to survival?
What is corn/maize?
What was the name of the city that allowed for diffusion of culture?
What is Tenochtitlan?
True or False
La Salle was a Spanish explorer who sailed from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico on the Mississippi River.
What is False?
What civilization came up with the numeric system?
What is Mesopotamia?
What are the five sea-based empires focused on in WHAP?
What is Spain, Portugal, France, England, and the Dutch.
What period was inspired by Greek culture?
What happens after you lose Pok-ta-pok?
What is sacrificed to the Gods?
What was traded in the Columbian Exchange? (4)
What are foods, plants, animals, and diseases?
What two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates river?
What did the Europeans do to expand their empires(3)?
What is consolidate power, expand army using gunpowder weapons, and implement effective taxation policies?
Who is Margery Kempe?
What is a Christian mystic who traveled to holy sites like Jerusalem and Rome?
What is 0.0002 of a day?
What is the encomienda system?
What is forced American labor for the Spanish in exchange for food and protection?
What resource is produce, due to a river flooding?
What is silt?