MesoAmerica I
Which culture is called the "mother culture" and is known for its colossal head sculptures and its influence on later Mesoamerica societies?
Olmecs
The Incan Empire in modern day Peru and the Roman Empire in modern day Mediterranean area both build what kind of thing to connect their empire together?
Roads
The Age of Exploration stemmed from the Renaissance because during this time period, there was a desire for luxury (X1) and new trade (X2).
X1= luxury goods
X2= new trade routes
Which explorer's 1497 trip around the southern tip of Africa and over to India gave Europeans a new route to Asia without being required to pay taxes to travel through the Ottoman Empire?
Vasco da Gama
What percent of the population of the Americas died of diseases brought by the Europeans?
Approx. 80-90%
The Aztecs were resented by the people they conquered because the did what violent thing to them?
Used millions of conquered people for human sacrifice
What are two civilizations from Mesoamerica and/or modern day South America that used advanced technology to build complex cities?
Aztecs and Incas
What are the 3 G's that motivated Europeans to invest in exploration?
God, Gold and Glory
Which explorer was the first to circumnavigate the world? Note: he personally did not make it all around the world as he was killed by Filipino indigenous people before he could make it back to Spain.
Ferdinand Magellan
The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), brokered by the pope, created two lines on the map, which was to keep war from occurring between Spain and Portugal. What did the Treaty stipulate?
Which lands on the map were the rights of Spain and Portugal to conquer
The Olmecs, Maya and Aztecs lived many centuries ago in which modern day countries?
Modern Day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and the area of the Yucatan Peninsula (any version of this answer is fine)
polytheism was a feature of which two Pre-Colombian civilizations?
the Mayan and Aztec
Which two European nations were the first to encourage and fund sea exploration and colonization?
Portugal and Spain
The Age of Exploration led directly to the creation of what kind of "land grab" in the new world?
Finish the sentence: The establishment of...
The Establishment of European colonies
An explorer named Zheng He was from what place?
China
What are "Chinampas"?
Chinampas, often referred to as "floating gardens," were an innovative agricultural system developed by the Aztecs
The Incan were able to farm in the high Andes because of what technology?
By creating terraces
The journeys of Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, and Ferdinand Magellan became possible in the late 1400s because of what two things?
Hint: one is a broad concept of how to better do something, and one is a specific kind of ship.
(1)New navigation technology and (2)caravel ships
The large-scale transfer of people, animals, plants, technology, language, and diseases between the Old World and the New World is best known as what?
The Columbian Exchange
Prince Henry the Navigator gave Portugal a 50 year head start in the age of exploration by founding what kind of institution in Lisbon?
A school of navigation which brought together the best ship builders, technologists, engineers, tradesman etc. from around Europe.
Which American empire is most closely associated with these statements?
-Located in modern day Peru and Chile
-Road system made up of 14,000 miles of road
-Lived in the Andes Mountains
The Incan Empire
The end of the Aztec and Incan Empire occurred when what happened?
The Spanish conquistadors took over
Which explorer had a failed expedition to find a shorter route to India by sailing West, but was the first explorer to successfully reach the "New World"? Additionally, he thought he was in India, and did not realize that this was a totally different and previously undiscovered part of the world.
Christopher Columbus
What allowed American colonies to gain economic success by providing unpaid labor on tobacco, rice, and sugar plantations, while also contributing to the long-term suppression of people of African descent?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
While the Spanish and Portuguese largely focused on conquering the new world in Mesoamerica, South America and the Caribbean,
where did the French and English primarily focus their settlements during this time? You may say in terms of modern day countries.
The French in modern day Canada and the English in modern day US.
(The French and English would later establish Caribbean colonies such as Jamaica and Haiti.)