Maya & Aztec
Inca
Exploration
Spanish Empire
Transatlantic Trade
100
A technology that developed from worship of the sun and careful observation and recordings of astrological movements.
What is the Mayan/Aztec calendar?
100
The location of the Incan empire.
What is the Andes mountains in modern day Peru/the west coast of South America?
100
The three purposes for the age of exploration.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
100
The explorers who went to build a colonial empire for Spain. These early sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru.
What is a conquistador?
100
The name given to the new exchange of goods, plants, animals, and diseases between the "old world" and the "new world".
What is Colombian Exchange?
200
A floating garden that allowed the Aztecs to produce agriculture in desert like environments.
What is a chinampa?
200
A form of record keeping that consists of tied strings and knots.
What is quipu?
200
This was the first explorer to attempt to reach Indian spice islands by traveling across the Atlantic.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The Spainish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
200
The astrolabe, magnetic compass, accurate maps, and the European caravel.
What is European maritime technology?
300
This Aztec ritual was performed to please the gods but was also used as a way to terrorize surrounding peoples that the Aztecs had conquered.
What is human sacrifice?
300
What are the temples of Machu Picchu?
300
The first explorer to circumnavigate the world. Although he did not make the entire voyage because he was killed in the Philippines in an altercation with Natives.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
This Spanish conquistador declared that Spain controlled the Pacific ocean.
Who is Vasco de Balboa?
300
Government-chartered joint-stock company that developed a monopoly on the spice trade in the East Indies.
What is the Dutch East India company?
400
Where can you find the ruins of Mayan cities?
What is the Yucatan peninsula?
400
This was the capital city of the Incan empire.
What is Cuzco?
400
This is the passage that was searched for by Northern European nations as well as the Dutch East India Company that sought to go over the American continent to India.
What is the Northwest Passage?
400
The division of the "new worlds" between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
400
The name given to the voyage that brought millions of slaves to the "new world".
What is the middle passage?
500
This is the final emperor of the Aztec empire who was conquered by Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes.
Who is Montezuma?
500
This was the last emperor of the Inca before the empire was conquered by Francisco Pizarro. Before his execution the Spanish acquired the largest ransom in history for his release.
Who is Atahualpa?
500
He was the first European explorer to actually reach India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
500
The advantages that the Spainish conquistadors held over the targets of colonization.
What are :
- Better weapons
-Immunity to disease
-Allies with neighboring enemies
500
The economic theory that drove the colonization of the America's for Spain, France, and Britain.
What is mercantilism?