Mesoamerica vocab
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Mesoamerica (notes)
European exploration
Renaissance (last chapter)
1500
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico who created a vast empire from the capital of Tenochtitlan and carried out human sacrifices.
Aztecs
1500
a person who draws or produces maps
Cartographer
1500
What disease is depicted in this picture?
Smallpox
1500
List two american foods that were introduced to European diets as a result of the Columbian Exchange.
Any two of the following:
potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla
1500
Where did the Renaissance begin?
It began in the Italian city-states such as Florence but soon spread to Western Europe especially France and the German states.
2000
Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico
Chinampa
2000
sail or travel all the way around specifically the world.
Circumnavigate
2000
Who built a road system to allow armies and news to move quickly through the empire?
The Inca
2000
What was the economic motivation for the French to found the colony New France?
They wanted to take part in fur trading and fishing
2000
One of the main reasons that some Italian city-states such as Venice, Milan, and Naples grew into major commercial centers during the 13th and 14th centuries
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
3000
Pre-Columbian people who created an empire in western South America
Inca
3000
the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Columbian Exchange
3000
What was the difference between Mayan and Incan architecture?
The Mayans used mortar.
3000
The Columbian Exchange led to the spread which religion to the Americas?
Christianity
3000
Theory that the SUN is the center of the solar system
Heliocentrism
4000
Mesoamerican civilization noted for its hieroglyphic script, art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system.
Maya
4000
soldiers and explorers of Spain and Portugal.
Conquistador
4000
Who lived in mesoamerica before the Mayan and the Aztecs?
The Olmecs
4000
What directly led to the forced enslavement and transportation of Africans to the Americas by Europeans resulted in a captive labor force for more than 200 years?
The columbian exchange
4000
Who wrote the 95 theses that complained about the Church's use of indulgences?
Martin Luther
5000
The complex of indigenous cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century.
Mesoamerica
5000
Economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by positive trade balance.
Mercantilism
5000
War prisoners were sacrificed to the sun god by which group of people?
The Aztecs
5000
Who was the first to sail around Africa and reach India
Vasco da Gama
5000
When people split from the Catholic Church for abusing power during the Renaissance
The Protestant Reformation