Olmec, Maya & Aztec
The Aztec capital was built on this.
What is a small island in a lake?
What is the Triangular Trade?
What is Socialist?
Chinampas and slash-and-burn-agriculture were both used to increase the amount of this resource.
What is food?
Name one of the two religious leaders who fought and died for Mexican Independence and the rights of lower class Mexican people.
Father Hidalgo or Father Morelos.
What are the two main sources of income for many Caribbean countries?
Tourism and sugar farming.
Why did the Aztec's perform human sacrifice?
To strengthen their gods.
Spanish colonists came to America to gain this.
What is wealth and power?
Explain what a capitalist economy is.
An economy where the people who purchase the tools necessary to start a business control the business and the money it makes.
List one of three possible advances that made the Olmec important to later Mesoamerican civilizations.
They were the first to master agriculture; because their agriculture was so successful, their population grew and the built large cities; because of their large cities they started many cultural traditions that impacted the Maya, Aztecs, and even modern Middle American societies.
Toussaint L'Ouverture was the freed black person who lead the first successful revolt of enslaved people. His revolt lead to independence and end of slavery in what country?
Haiti
Explain what a socialist economy is.
An economy where the people who work at a business control the business the business and the money it makes.
Advantage: The surrounding mountains and lake made it difficult to invade.
Disadvantage: Their small island in the middle of the lake did not have much land on which to farm.
List two ways the Columbian Exchange changed the world.
Exchange of foods increased the amount of food throughout the world, but the spread of diseases caused a huge decrease in the population of Indigneous Americans.
Spanish colonizers came to the Caribbean looking for gold. List one of two major resources they used to make money instead.
Either farmland to grow sugarcane, or mines to make silver.