Explorers
"Discovered" the New World from Europe
Columbus
Colonies
The area in Africa where most people were enslaved from
Ivory Coast
The capitol city of the Aztecs was formed upon this land feature
Lake
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
Cortez
First around the tip of Africa
Diaz
England and France
The development of these cash crops helped fuel the expansion of slavery in the new world
Small man-made floating islands used by the Aztecs for Farming
Chinampas
The massacre here was a turning point in the Indian Independence Movement
Amritsar
Magellan
This conference was a meeting of European powers as they decided to "chop up" Africa for colonization
Berlin Conference
60% of Black Africans removed from Africa and sent to this location
Caribbean
This resource was used as knives for the human sacrifice practiced by the Aztecs
Obsidian Stone
Considered the "Father" of India
Gandhi
Cabot
This treaty divided the world East and West for colonization by Spain and Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
The name for the 2 month voyage from Africa to the New World for enslaved peoples
Middle Passage
The Mayan religion was based largely around the study of this science
Astronomy
This new world civilization practice sports in the form of the "Ball Game"
Mayans
First to travel up the West Coast of the US
Drake
The primary motivation for countries to add other lands to their empires
Economic
The idea that slaves were "Better Off" because Europeans had brought "Civilization" to them as slaves
"White Man's Burden"
Tiered steps cut into the mountains by the Inca to allow for farming on the high slopes
Terraces
The enslavement of Native Americans in the New World prior to the adoption of African Slavery
Encomienda System