Throwback
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Indigenous Culture
Vocab
Cause and Effect
100
In 1492 this famous explorer sailed the ocean blue.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
Based on this chart, this altitude would be the BEST to grow potatoes in.
What is "Tierra Fria"?
100
The Inca solved their problem of food scarcity by using this style of agriculture to grow their crops in the Andes Mountains.
What is Terrace Farming?
100
This is the term for people who hunted animals and gathered plants and fruits for food.
What is "Hunter gatherers"
or
What are "Nomads"
100
These two European countries were the ones who mainly colonized South America.
Where is Spain and Portugal?
200
The name for a river that is made by humans to bring water to crops that need it.
What is a Canal?
200
This is the year that the greatest amount of rainforest was cut down in Brazil.
When is 2004
200
This is the type of agriculture that the people of the Lowlands used.
What is "Slash and burn"
200
This term means complete control over something you can make money from.
What is a Monopoly?
200
This accidental creation was an unfortunate result of Prince Henry's exceptional map-making skills
What is slavery?
or
What is the slave trade?
300
This trade between Europe, Africa, and Central America changed both the "New World" and the "Old World" forever.
What is the Triangular Trade
or
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
Based on the chart, this altitude zone would struggle with food scarcity.
What is "Tierra Helada"?
300
This achievement allowed the Inca to cross canyons or water, and spared them extra travel time.
What are suspension bridges?
300
This term describes a famous city built by the Inca, and it is so well constructed that it remains a popular tourist site even to today.
What is Machu Picchu?
300
This switching of wind and ocean currents causes locations that normally experience dry climates to have lots of rain, and wet climates to experience drought.
What is El Niño
400
This indigenous civilization was known for inventing a famous ball game that many civilizations after it would also play.
Who are the Olmec?
400
This is the way that climate changes as elevation increases.
What is "getting colder"?
Or
What is "Less rainfall"?
400
This intricate system of tying knots helped the Inca to keep track of numbers, dates, and history.
What is Khipu?
400
This is the term for small rivers that drain into a larger river.
What are tributaries?
400
The three reasons that Europeans wanted to migrate to the "New World"
What are gold, god, and glory?
500
The name for the "floating gardens" that Aztec used for their agriculture.
What are "Chinampas"?
500
This explains how the chart shows human-environment interaction?
What is "cutting down trees"?
or
What is "deforestation"?
500
In the Inca empire, this type of tax describes how citizens would contribute by farming, building, or working for the government for a few months of the year.
What is the Mita Tax?
500
This is the process through which plants and trees release water vapor into the air.
What is transpiration?
500
This term describes missionaries persuading native populations to change their religious beliefs.
What is convert?