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Early Latin America
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The country we are currently living in.
What is The United States of America.
100
the four cardinal directions.
What are north, south, east, west?
100
This group was known as the "warriors" of Latin America. Their culture centered on warfare and honor in battle.
Who are the Aztec?
100
the word conquistador comes from the Spanish word "conquistar" which means....?
What is to conquer, or take over
100
the line at zero degrees latitude, often called "Earth's Belt".
What is the equator?
200
The number of continents in the world.
What is seven?
200
a map that shows borders and names of countries/states.
What is a political map?
200
This group lived mostly in Peru and were responsible for building the stone city of Macchu Picchu.
Who are the Incas?
200
The conquistador that defeated the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
The main reason European Explorers began exploring the world in the 1400s and 1500s was to look for these items.
What are spices, or gold?
300
a large flat area of land with little to no elevation.
What is a plain?
300
a map that helps you see the landforms and bodies of water in an area.
What is a physical map?
300
the exchange of goods and ideas between European countries and their colonies in North and South America.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
the conquistador that defeated the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
300
I am credited with "discovering" the New World in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
an opening in the Earth's surface through which gases and lava escape from Earth's interior.
What is a volcano?
400
Imaginary lines that run east and west across the globe.
What are latitude lines?
400
This group was known as the "thinkers". They also studied math, astronomy, and lived in Mexico and Central America.
Who are the Maya?
400
The conquistadors were able to defeat the civilizations of early Latin America mostly due to their advances in this.
What is technology, or weapons?
400
the main languages spoken in modern day Latin America are these.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
500
a large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or over land.
What is a glacier?
500
the area on a map which lists and explains the symbols and colors used on the map.
What is a map key or legend?
500
I was the ruler of the Aztec empire when the Spanish conquistadors arrived and eventually conquered between 1519 and 1521.
Who is Montezuma II?
500
The disease that proved far more deadly to Native Americans than Spanish swords and cannons during the 1500s.
What is small pox?
500
All of a groups beliefs, traditions, and customs, can be called this.
What is culture?