North and South American Geography
Exploration and Colombus
AZTECS
INCANS
SOURCES
100
What numbers indicates North and South America?
1
2
100
Identify 1 reason the Spanish were scared to travel.
1.There were sea monsters
2.The further south you travelled you would boil
3.The world was flat and you would fall off the edge
4. Scurvy
100
Where the AZTECS located in North or South Mexico?
Northern- Red
Bonus 50 points if you can tell me what civilisation lived in the pink.
100
What continent were the Incans located?
South America
100
What is the difference between a primary and secondary source.
Primary is from that time (Letter, artifact)
Secondary is a recreation (Painting, interpretation)
200
What number is Europe?
Bonus 50 points if you can identify where Spain is.
3
200
What were the three main motivations to explore?
Hint: GGG
Gold, Glory and God
200
Tenochtitlan was the _______ city of the Aztec empire.
Capital city
Bonus 50: What is the current capital city of Mexico.
200
Was the Incan empire located in in the East or West of SA?
West coast
200
What makes a source more reliable than an other?
Teacher to check
300
What number is Mexico?
3
300
Explain what exploration sponsorship was.
Bonus 50 points: What country sponsored Colombus?
Sponsorship was where wealthy people (such as royals or kings) would provide explorers with resources and money to explore in their name. These sponsored explored claim land and resources for those that paid them.
Bonus: King and Queen of Spain.
300
Why did the Aztecs have many gods?
Every god explained an aspect of the world.
300
What was the capital city of the Incans?
Hint: Starts with an M
Machu Picchu
300
What is the origin of a source?
When it was found/written and who it belongs to.
400
What ocean did the Spanish sail across to reach the Americas?
Atlantic Ocean
400
What year did Chrisopher Colombus "discover" the Americas?
a) 1430
b) 1492
c) 1500
d) 1300
b) 1492
400
Who conquered the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortez
400
Who conquered the Incans?
Francisco Pizarro
400
What is happening in the source?
Is this primary or secondary?
Is this source reliable? Why/why not?
Teacher to check
500
What was another name used to describe Mexico?
Hint: It is a different word for "Middle".
_____ America
Meso-America
500
Explain 1 reason why Chrisopher Columbus could be seen as a hero and a villain.
Teacher to check.
500
How did smallpox impact the Aztec people?
It was a disease that the Aztecs were not immune to and it killed hundreds of thousands of Aztecs.
500
What happened in the square of Cajamarca?
Teacher to check.
500
What is happening in the source?
Is this primary or secondary?
What does this source aim to show us? Is this source useful? Why/why not?
Teacher to check
