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100

What MesoAmerican culutre was NOT conquered by the Spanish?

Maya

100

In what region of the world are Mexico, Brazil and Peru located?

Latin America

100

Which was made post-Industrial Revolution?

Airplane, Computer, railway cars, sewing machine

computer

100
July 4, 1776 the American colonies declared independence from what European country?

England

100

Name the 3 great civilizations that flourished in Latin America prior to European colonization.

Aztec, Maya, Inca

200

What civilization built their capital city in the middle of a lake?

Aztec

200

What invention of the Renaissance led to exploration of the Americas?

printing press

200

This began in Europe and was the "rebirth" of early Greek and Roman information and was immediately following the Middle Ages.

Renaissance

200

Which Enlightenment Thinker was closest to the traditional way of thinking?

Hobbes

200

Who was the first person to discover the laws of gravity? 

Isaac Newton

300

 What was the religious significance of pyramids in the Aztec and Maya culture? 

Sacrifice

300
This was the name of the "sharing" of food, ideas, disease between the new and old world.

Columbian Exchange

300

What was the time period in history when people started to become more reliant on new technology?

Industrial Revolution

300

Many revolutions were inspired by this type of thinking. 

Enlightenment

300

What were 3 pull factors for why Europeans came specifically to Latin America?

gold, God, glory, land

400

What innovation did the Aztec implement to make more viable farm land?

chinampas

400

Name  2 push factors that led to European colonization of Latin America?

religious persecution, over population,  disease, freedom from feudalism, adventure, spread Christianity

400

What were the name of the building built during the IR quickly and poorly and held multiple families at one time.

Tenements

400

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? 

Thomas Jefferson 

400

A Constitutional Monarch is what type of government? 

Rule of many/democracy

500

What was the name of the Inca city not conquered by the Spanish that is a major tourist attraction today? 

Machu Picchu

500

Name 4 outcomes of European colonization of Latin America. 

Colombian Exchange, death of indigenous people (war/disease), end of great civilizations, slave trade, culture change 
500

What was the time period prior to the Industrial Revolution that inspired Europeans to pursue alternate ideas of how/why things happen? 

Scientific Revolution

500

John Locke believed that every human is born with 3 natural rights. What are they?

Life, Liberty and the right to property

500

Who was the founder of the Persian Empire? He also was the first to allow religious freedom.

Cyrus the Great