Native Americans pre-conquest
This town was created by the Aztecs as their capital city, which is on the site of present-day Mexico City.
Tenochtitlán
The transmission and interchange of plants, animals, diseases, cultures, human populations, and technologies between the New World and Old World.
Columbian Exchange
Name the conquistador who conquered the Aztecs in 1519.
Hernan Cortez
Term referring to person of mixed Spanish and Native American descent
Mestizo
Event during 15th century that encouraged greater thought in the arts and sciences, led to more centralized political authority
Renaissance
Over what landmass did the first humans arrive in the Americas?
Bering Land Bridge
In order to explore and trade, the Portugese developed ships know as this term.
Caravels
The three G's - the reason for European conquest?
God, Gold, Glory
System in which Indians provided land owners with labor tribute in exchange for legal protection and religious guidance. Native Americans frequently exploited and treated harshly.
Encomienda System
Religious Event started by Martin Luther that caused great conflict and division between nations in Europe, split between France and Spain, and England
Protestant Reformation
Tribe in Central Mexico, Capital city of Tenochitlan, performed human sacrifice rituals.
Aztec
Perhaps the worst trade of the Columbian Exchange, this specific thing killed far more Native Americans than guns or steel.
Smallpox
Christopher Columbus
Author of Historia de las Indias, questioned the legitimacy of Spain's conquest and fought for better treatment of Native Americans.
Bartolome de las Casas
Event in Spain caused by the marriage of fervent Catholics Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, led to unification of Spain and removal of Muslims and Jews from Iberia
Reconquista, Spanish Inquisition
What were the three stable crops that many native tribes in North America used? Name 2 of 3
Beans Corn and Squash
One of three specific crops from New World that revolutionized farming and life in Europe
Corn, Potatoes, Tomatoes
The Spanish were not only trading economic goods, but also trying to spread this religion.
Catholicism
The Spanish conquistador who overthrew both the Aztecs and Mayas.
Hernán Cortéz
Missionaries
These peoples forged and hunted nomadically in the Great Basin region, which stretched over an enormous desert in what is now Southwestern Colorado and Southeaster Utah?
The Ute
The monarchy of Spain who launched the inquisition.
Ferdinand and Isabella
Europeans justified the enslavement of Africans by ...
Using biblical accounts (religion) as an excuse.
This conquistador conquered the vast Incan empire in present day Perú.
Francisco Pizarro
This Prince of Protugal launched explorations of the African coast in the 1420s and gathered information from astronomers, geographers, mapmakers, and craftsmen to help find a new way to India.