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100

Migration

A movement of people or animal from one region to another

100

Capital

Money or property that is used to earn more money

100

Hernan Cortes

Spanish conquistador  that conquered Mexico in 1519

100

Which empire did Francisco Pizarro conquer?

A) Aztec

B) Inca

C) Maya

D) Olmec

B) Inca

100

What was the primary lifestyle of the Paleo Indians?

A) Farmers

B) Nomadic hunter-gatherers

C) Settled villagers

D) Industrial workers

B) Nomadic hunter-gatherers

200

Environment

Climate and landscape that surround things

200

Joint stocks companies

Business in which a group of people invest together

200

Montazuma II

West ruler of Mexico

200

Montezuma was a ruler of which civilization?

A) Inca

B) Aztec

C) Maya

D) Olmec

B) Aztec

C) Maya

200

Which of the following best describes the societies of early hunter-gatherers?

A) Large urban centers

B) Small, family-based groups

C) Feudal kingdoms

D) Industrial cities

B) Small, family-based groups

300

Societies

Groups that share a culture

300

Northwest passage

North America, that would let ship sell from Atlantic to the Pacific

300

Encomienda System 

it gave settlers the right to tax local native Americans, or to make them work

300

What was the primary purpose of plantations in the Spanish Americas?

A) To grow food for local consumption

B) To produce cash crops for export

C) To serve as military bases

D) To house religious communities

B) To produce cash crops for export

300

What was the purpose of joint stock companies during the Age of Exploration?

A) To fund military campaigns

B) To finance voyages and colonization

C) To build castles

D) To create new religions

  1. B) To finance voyages and colonization
400

Culture

Is a group set of common values and traditions

400

Christopher Columbus exchange

The transfer of plants and animals and diseases which became known as the Christopher Columbus exchange because it resulted from Columbus exploration

400

Plantation

A large farm that group just one kind of crops and make huge profits for their owners

400

Before the arrival of the first Europeans, the

most advanced Native American societies

were located in what is now

A. California.

B. the eastern United States.

C. the American Southwest.

D. Mexico.

D. Mexico.

400

What was Christopher Columbus searching for when he set sail westward in 1492?

A) A new continent

B) A route to Asia

C) The Fountain of Youth

D) A new species of animal

B) A route to Asia

500

Totems

Ancestors or animal spits

500

Conquistador

Soldier Street military expedition to the Americas

500

Protestant reformation

A religious movement that began an effort to reform the catholic church and spread Germantown in 1520s and then to other parts of Europe

500

How did the Reformation in Europe affect

European settlement of the Americas?

A.  It caused Spain to abandon its New World

colonies.

B. It resulted in Protestants conquering Mexico.

C. It created religious tensions in Europe that

some people fled to America to escape.

D. It led to freedom of worship in most European

colonies in the Americas.

C.  It created religious tensions in Europe that

some people fled to America to escape.

500

Which of the following was a significant impact of the Columbian Exchange?

A) The introduction of new diseases to the Americas

B) The discovery of gold in Europe

C) The invention of the wheel

D) The creation of new languages

A) The introduction of new diseases to the Americas

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