The Americas
The Americas
The Americas
Exploration
Exploration
100

land bridge from Asia to North America 

Bering Strait

100

•Extensive road system links the country together

Inca

100

terrace farming was used by which civilization ? 

Incas

100

What forced Europe to go out and explore new routes to Asia, leading to their finding of the Americas? 

The Fall of Constantinople 1453

100

Name all 3 motivated individual Europeans to explore the world

Gold, God, Glory 

200

Olmec means

rubber people

200

Chinampas were man made farm plots built on the marshy fringes of the lake

Which Civilization ? 

Aztec

200

Drank a lot of chocolate from gold cups. Caught the eye of Cortez. 

Montezuma II

200

America was named after him. (Need last name for sure) 

Amerigo Vespucci

200

global transfer of foods, plants, and animals between continents

Columbian Exchange

300

Tenochtitlan Aztec Capital - Modern location?

Mexico 

300

Spanish conquistador that concord the Inca

Pizarro

300

When your political leader and your religious leader are the same = 

theocracy

300

technological advances Europeans used to explore the world - give me 3 we put in our notes. 

Better ships, Magnetic compass, Cartography – map making, Gunpowder, Metalwork, 

300

5 European nations took the lead on exploration. Name 3 we talked about. 

Dutch, English (Great Britain), French, Portuguese, Spanish

400

The Inca kept records using ___ a rope with knotted cords of different lengths and colors

quipu

400

Many believed in multiple gods. Term = 

polytheistic

400

I concord the Aztecs, with a little luck as they thought I was a god. 

Hernando (Hernan) Cortes

400

circumnavigation of the world - Must have last name

Ferdinand Magellan

400

Slave trade route across the Atlantic was called 

The Middle Passage

500

Aztec & Mayans kept the gods happy how? 

Human sacrifice

500

Codex- was a paper book the Mayans used. What was their language called? 

hieroglyphic

500

What was the biggest weapon the Conquistadors brought with them? 

Disease 

500

Why were Africans seen as a better choice over Native Americans for slave labor? 

Africans had complete immunity to all diseases, so they wouldn’t die off.

500

James town was the first success of the English in

1607