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Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
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Hodgepodge I
Hodgepodge II
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A record of a voyage.
What is a log?
100
A historical map.
What is a map that shows places or events from the past?
100
The explorer who sailed for Spain and landed in America in 1492.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
100
He was a Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernando Cortes?
100
People who live in the Andes Mountains in South America that were conquered by the Spanish in 1532.
Who were the Inca?
200
A colony.
What is a settlement far away from the country that rules it?
200
This can help you understand the symbols in a map. It is sometimes called a legend.
What is map key?
200
The largest group of Arawak natives living in the Caribbean Islands at the time that Columbus landed in 1492.
Who were the Taino?
200
Emperor of the Aztec Empire in 1502.
Who was Moctezuma?
200
The capital city of the Inca.
What was Cuzco?
300
Columbian Exchange
What is an exchange of people, plants, animals, and diseases caused by Columbus's expeditions?
300
Some ways that historical maps can help you learn.
What is that historical maps can help you understand historical events and see how geography affects history?
300
He realized that the lands claimed for Spain by Columbus were not a part of Asia. These lands were mapped by him and later given his name.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
300
Cortes's army was able to conquer the Aztecs because they cut off their food and water, had help from other natives, and ................
What is because the Spanish had better weapons?
300
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
400
A tribute.
What were taxes paid by conquered people within the Aztec Empire?
400
The name Columbus gave to the first island he visited in the Americas.
What is San Salvador?
400
The capital of the Aztec Empire from the early 1300s to about 1521.
What was Tenochtitlan?
400
We do not know much about the Taino tribes because of this reason.
What is that the Spanish destroyed much of their culture?
400
The Portuguese sea captain whose expedition proved that people could circumnavigate or sail around the world.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
500
Spanish conquerors or soldiers.
What were conquistadors?
500
The Spanish called the new colony they set up on the site of Tenochtitlan.
What is New Spain?
500
The modern day city that is located on the site of Tenochtitlan is named this.
What is Mexico City?
500
Moctezuma welcomed Cortes for this reason.
What is that he was very religious and thought that Cortes might be a god predicted by Aztec legend to return?
500
The three advantages that Pizarro and his troops had over the Incas that led to their being conquered were...
What were steel weapons, horses, and germs?