Tribes of New Mexico
This was the name for Navajo houses.
Hogans
The Encomienda system often resulted in the enslavement of these people:
Indigenous People (called Indians by Spaniards) / Native Americans
True or False: The Olmec, Maya, and Aztec had similar architectural styles.
True
Cortez interacted with the _____ empire in Mesoamerica. This empire's capital was called Tenochtitlan.
Aztec
This was the site of the Ancestral Puebloan that traded items as far as the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.
Chaco Canyon
This was like trade between Europe and the Americas and started after Christopher Columbus' voyages.
Columbian Exchange
True or False: Olmec, Maya, and Aztec civilizations all shared the same writing system.
False
This man's actions led to the fall of the Aztec Empire which was ruled by Montezuma II.
Cortés
Term once used for the Ancestral Pueblo people meaning "ancient enemy" in Navajo has been replaced because it is offensive to modern Pueblo people.
Anasazi
____ _____ was the expansion of trade during the Age of Exploration, connecting the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Global Trading
Name two natural resources that Mesoamerican civilizations made use of:
waterways, jungles, coatlines, fertile soil, minerals
What were Spanish people called who came to the Americas looking to explore new lands and conquer Indigenous peoples?
Conquistadors
This relies on rainfall and snow collected in clumps of dead plants to pool water and runoff to be used to water crops.
Dry Farming
This was a Spanish policy granting land and its inhabitants to Spanish soldiers/colonists
encomienda system
In Mesoamerica, some tribes used agriculture techniques like the floating gardens called ______.
chinampas
What were the three G's?
God, Gold, Glory
This is the largest tribe in New Mexico. Call themselved Diné.
Navajo
The Columbian Exchange was the trade of which three things?
Goods, Animals, Diseases
(would also accept plants, animals, diseases)
Name the three civilizations that lived in Mesoamerica in chronological order:
Olmec, Maya, Aztec
This man was the Aztec ruler who Cortez conquered.
Montezuma