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This explorer was the first European to discover any land in the New World. He thought he was in Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the name the Spanish gave the land they conquered in the Americas.
What is New Spain?
This was a form of farming that involved making platforms on the side of a mountain.
What is Terrace Farming?
These are what the 3 G's represent.
What are G-d, Gold, and Glory?
This was an Inca recording device that used knots and strings.
What is a Quipu?
This explorer lead his crew to be the first people to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
These people lived in large cities, had irrigation systems, used hieroglyphs, and were polytheistic. However, their civilization disappeared before Europeans came to the Americas.
Who are the Mayans?
This was a ship that used triangular sails to move against the wind.
What is a Caravel?
These were three maritime technologies that allowed Europeans to travel to the New World.
What are the Magnetic Compass, the Astrolabe, and the Caravel?
These were Spanish soldiers and explorers who fought in the New World.
Who were Conquistadors?
These were people who moved from Spain and settled in the New World.
Who are Peninsulares?
This is the mountain range in South America where the Incas lived.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This was a form of farming that included creating man-made floating islands.
What are Chinampas?
These were the three advantages that helped the Conquistadors conquer the Aztecs and Incas.
What are military technologies, horses, and disease?
This device used the horizon and stars to find your exact coordinates on a map.
What is an Astrolabe?
This man helped Portugal with its exploration by making maritime technologies.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
This was the capital city of the Aztecs.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This allowed for fresh water to be transported into Mayan cities.
What are Aqueducts?
Separately, the Spanish believed these were the benefits for themselves and the Indigenous with the Encomienda System.
Spanish: What are Taxes and Free Labor?
Indigenous: What are Christianity and Protection?
This stated that if you found land, and the people there were not Christian, that you could take it.
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
This Spanish Priest was opposed to the Encomienda System in New Spain.
Who was Bartolome de la Casas?
This was the capital city of the Incas.
What is Cusco?
These were raised platforms used by the Aztecs that connected an island to the shore.
What are Causeways?
These were the three locations Indigenous Americans could be sent to with the Encomienda System.
What are Plantations, Haciendas, or Mines?
This separated where Spain and Portugal were allowed to explore and take land from.
What is the Line of Demarcation?