Explorers
This person completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean between 1492 and 1503.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
All three major empires practiced what type of religion?
This disease killed many Incan people and was a part of the Incan demise.
What is smallpox?
A widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas between the 2 hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
They were sailors and warriors from Scandinavia and were the first Europeans in North America.
This person defeated the Aztec Empire in 1519.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This civilization was located in the Andes Mountains in South America?
What is the Incan Empire?
Major cities of this civilization were Tikal and Chichen Itza.
Who are the Mayans?
Europe, Africa, and the Americas are three places that connect. What was this trading route called?
What is the Triangle of Trade?
This group of people are pure Spanish people born in America.
This person brought back immense wealth and precious metals to Spain after conquering the Incan Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
The Aztecs did this on top of their pyramid temples to please the gods.
What are human sacrifices?
This civilization had excellent astronomers who charted movements of the planets/sun/moon, created accurate calendars, and developed numbers and glyphic writing.
Who are the Mayans?
The Atlantic Slave Trade transported approximately how many people from the 15th to 19th centuries?
China had a long history of being what?
What is self-sufficient?
This person (who died before going all the way around) and his crew led the first circumnavigation of the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This was a ball game played by the Mayans and others. You could be sacrificed if you were on the losing team.
What is Pok-A-Tok?
This civilization developed a complex road system.
What is the Incan Empire?
New crops became a staple of European cuisine. Due to this, Europeans now had better what?
What is nutrition?
These 2 groups were allowed to trade with Japan after the Closed Country Policy.
This person was the first European to sail and map the St. Lawrence River?
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The Incan developed this plant.
What is the coca plant?
These were two possible causes of the demise of the Mayans.
What are possible invasions and soil exhaustion/draught?
This was a system where Spanish colonists were granted a tract of land in the new world and "given" people to work on it
What is the encomienda system?
This is the economic theory that a country gains power by building up its wealth - specifically gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?