Pre-Colonialism
Time period when the last Ice Age ended
What is 12,000-8000 BCE/years ago
Area of the Americas first reached by Christopher Columbus in 1492
What is Hispaniola or the Caribbean Islands?
Encomienda System
This European country ruled the colony of Saint Domingue
What is France?
Land bridge between Asia and Alaska during the last Ice Age
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Capital of the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan
What is Haiti?
Area of the world where gunpowder originated (country/continent)
What is China or Asia?
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca Empire
Who is Francisco Pizarro
The transfer of new plants, animals, and disease between Europe and the Americas after Columbus' journey
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Who were the leaders of the Haitian Revolution? Name both!
Who were Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines?
Native language of the Aztecs
Nahuatl
Global economic system that developed between that developed between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Hint: African slavery was a major part of this economic system
What is Triangular Trade?
The name for the journey made by enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean
The Middle Passage
In what year did Haiti gain its independence?
What is 1804?
Inca record keeping system
Quipus
This was the city that was built over Tenochtitlan
What is Mexico City?
The name of the Inca capital or city where Atahualpa was captured
What is Cuzco or Cajamarca?
These were the main exports of Saint Domingue that the slaves were responsible for growing (You need both!)
What are coffee and sugar?