Conquest of the Americas
Mesoamerica
Age of Exploration and Colonization
People
Potpourri
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Europeans who were arriving in the Americas had immunity to this, and therefore, used it as an effective biological weapon.
What is smallpox?
100
This crop was first cultivated in Mexico around 5,000 years ago.
What is maize/corn?
100
He conquered Mexico in 1525.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
100
This Italian explorer sailed to the Caribbean in 1492 under the Spanish crown.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North and South America to be sold as slaves.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
Plantations in the Americas used this kind of labor to replace declining native populations.
What are African slaves?
200
This civilization, developed in what is now Guatemala, was centered around cities that functioned as religious centers.
Who are the Maya?
200
His crew circumnavigated the globe between 1519 and 1522.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
Spanish explorers, soldiers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century.
Who are conquistadors?
200
Three countries that established colonies in the Americas.
What is Spain, France and Great Britain, also Portugal, Russia and the Netherlands?
300
The dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, diseases, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
A pre-Columbian Indian civilization located in the Andes Mountains of South America, noted for its development of a socialistic, complex government bureaucracy, advancements in engineering, including vast stone roads, and the development of new food crops such as the potato.
What is the Inca Empire?
300
This Portuguese explorer reached India by sailing around Africa in 1498.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
300
Son of the king of Portugal who was a key figure in the early development of European exploration by establishing a school for navigators and led Portugal's efforts to establish trading posts along the west coast of Africa.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
300
An accounting device used by the Inca; it was compromised of a set of knotted strings used to record data.
What is quipu?
400
Native Americans were forced to work for the Spanish under this labor system.
What is the encomienda system?
400
Known as the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica, this culture developed along the Gulf of Mexico circa 1500 B.C.E.
What is the Olmec?
400
Practiced in the 16th through the 19th centuries in which Africans were captured transported across the ocean for sale in the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
400
Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
400
An Inca site located in the Cusco Region of Peru, South America. Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is perhaps the most familiar icon of Inca civilization.
What is Machu Picchu?
500
Known for its pyramids, this city in ancient Mexico was a powerful culture center in Mesoamerica.
What is Teotihuacan?
500
Often referred to as "floating gardens," a method of agriculture practiced by the Aztec in which artificial islands were used to grow crops on shallow lake beds.
What are chinampas?
500
A disease, common among sailors hundreds of years ago, is caused by a lack of vitamin C.
What is scurvy?
500
The last leader of the Aztec Empire at the time of its Spanish conquest.
Who is Cuauhtemoc?
500
This agreement divided the "newly discovered" lands of the Americas between Portugal and Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
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