The Mayans
This is where they settled
The Yucatan Peninsula
This is where they settled
Central Mexican Plateau
What was their capital city
Cuzco
He started a school of navigation promoting the use of better tools and maps
Prince Henry the Navigator
He sailed to the spanish colony of Hispanola now the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Hernan Cortes
What area did they rule
Southern Mexico and Central America
They are known for this city
Tenochtitlan
At it's heigth what was the population
10 million people
Sailed around the southern tip of South Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
Founder of the new world
Amerigo Vespucci
They are responsible for creating what
365 day calendar
The type of Agriculture they used
Terrace farming
What type of Agriculture did they use
Flat land near the coast
Found the Route to India by going around Africa
Vasco da Gama
Defeated the Incan empire with less than two hundred calvary soldiers
Fransico Pizarro
The type of agriculture they used
Slash and burn
How was the number system of the Aztecs built
Based on twenty
They had a centrally-planned economy. Who made the decisions
The government
Asked for money to sail east across the Atlantic Ocean to the Indies
Christopher Columbus
Led an expedition through Florida
Hernando DeSoto
Their religious belief of the Mayan
Polytheistic they had more than 160 Gods
What did they believe kept their gods happy
Through festivals, feast, sacrifices of goods and animals and human sacrifice
They invented this specific type of bridge
Suspension bridge
He circumnavigated the Globe
Ferdinand Magellan
He made several voyages to what is now Canada
Jacques Cartier