Mesoamerica
The New World
Old World Exploration
Key Figures
Bonus Round
100
Name two things that are sacred to the Incas (hint: they're both in the Emperor's New Groove)
What is a llama?
What is gold/the sun?
100
Items given from the Europeans to the Natives as biological warfare, intended to spread diseases when conquering the empires
What are Disease Blankets?
100
Technology originally from China that measures distance and direction on sea and land using magnetic fields.
What is a compass?
100
Italian explorer who is credited with discovering the Americas for the Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
Who was Christopher Columbus?
100
Spanish word meaning "conqueror." Soldiers who came to the New World to conquer the land for the mother country.
What is "conquistadors"?
200
the capital city of the Aztec Empire and cite of present-day Mexico City
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
movement of goods and services around the Atlantic, primarily between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What was Triangular Trade?
200
people combining their wealth for a common purpose, such as funding a colony or expedition
What is a joint-stock company?
200
Italian merchant explorer who visited Mongol Yuan China in the 13th Century (1200s). Wrote a book about his travels and about all of the things he found there, including expensive spices.
Who was Marco Polo?
200
Farming style used by the Inca to manipulate their geography to their needs. Carved steps into the mountains and growing different crops on each tier, allowing gravity and rainfall to irrigate the crops.
What is terrace farming?
300
"floating gardens," method of farming used by the Aztecs where they created islands and grew crops in the middle of a lake
What are Chinampas?
300
Economic system where conquered land was divided among soldiers and Natives were forced to work the land.
What was the Encomienda System?
300
The exchange of goods and ideas between the Old and New Worlds
(Beans, corn, tomatoes-----> Europe)
(Horses, guns, diseases-----> the Americas)
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
Spanish explorer who landed in Florida and searched for the mythical Fountain of Youth
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
300
Spanish priest who wrote about the injustice of Native slavery and wanted the Spanish to stop exploiting the Natives.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
400
Religious center of the Aztec Empire. The "stomping ground of the gods"
What was Teotihuacan?
400
Term for Spanish nobles who were born in the New World
What is "Creoles"?
400
Portugese sailing ship with lateen (triangular sails) that allowed deep sea sailing. Developed from cross cultural interaction with the Islamic World.
What is a caravel?
400
Portugese explorer who established an all-water trade route to India in 1498
Who was Vasco de Gama?
400
Chinese explorer who took very costly voyages all around the Indian and Pacific Oceans before the period of Chinese isolationism.
Who was Zheng He?
500
One of the most important gods to the Aztecs and the patron of the emperor. The "feathered serpent"
What is Quetzalcoatl?
500
The treacherous and inhumane journey captured Africans were forced to go on across the Atlantic to plantations in the Americas and Carribbean.
What was the Middle Passage?
500
The main reasons for early exploration of the New World. The "Three G's"
What is God, gold, and glory?
500
Led the crew that circumnavigated the globe from 1519 to 1522, but died before he made it all around.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
500
Portugese explorer who rounded the tip of Africa in 1488 in an attempt to take an all water route to India.
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?