During the ice age, this land bridge allowed travel by foot from Asia to the Americas.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
100
floating gardens
What are chinampas?
100
Where did Columbus think he was traveling when he "discovered" America?
What are the Indies?
100
Small and narrow ships used to transport slaves to the Americas.
What are slavers?
100
This word means personal property of a person.
What is chattel?
200
Person with no permanent home who travels from place to place
What is a nomad?
200
Literally "feathered serpent." He was the god of learning and agriculture for the Teotihuacanos.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
200
Person of mixed race, especially Spaniard and Native American
What is mestizo
200
This slaver (ship) was the site of a slave rebellion
What is la Amistad?
200
Groups of slaves held together by chains after being captured by slave traders.
What is a coffle?
300
The change when people started settling down and farming instead of hunting and gathering
What is the agricultural revolution?
300
A ruler of the Toltecs, with a lighter complexion. He took the name of a god, and promised to return. This affected how the Aztecs treated Cortes and Spanish when they arrived.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
300
Deliberate killing of an ethnic or cultural group of people
What is genocide?
300
Three raw goods produced and later traded by slave labor in the Americas
What are cotton, tobacco, and sugar?
300
Three-sided trade in which European goods were exchanged in West Africa for slaves, who were, in turn, traded for New World products in the Americas, which in turn, were traded for European goods in Europe.
What are triangular trade systems?
400
This man wrote about Columbus's experiences in the Caribbean
Who is Bartholome de Las Casas?
400
In Mayan math: a dot, a stick, and a shell represent these values
What is one, five, and 20 or zero
400
What killed 95% of the indigenous people of the Americas?
What is disease (germs)?
400
Fortified structure in which slaves were held before transport to the Americas.
What is a factory?
400
The section of the triangular trade in which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas.
What is the middle passage?
500
This word means native to a place or region
What is indigenous?
500
Name three accomplishments of the Maya Civilization
Who: African man, enslaved, bought freedom;
where: Africa, America, and Europe;
When: 1700s;
why: wrote a book explaining to people about the horrible conditions of the middle passage
500
What lessons can we take from our study of slavery in the Americas to help us live our lives in the present.