Terms
Conquerors
What is conquistadors
Highest power in Maya society
What is nobles
In the Middle Ages, the people most likely to be able to read and write were
What is clergymen
The main reason Columbus sailed to the Americas
What is to find riches
The Spanish easily conquered the Americas was that the Aztecs and Incas lacked
What is resistance to European disease
Forts where soldiers lived
What is Presidios
Aztec adaptation to their environment
What is a system of causeways
What is causeways
This city promoted trade routes
What is Mecca
An area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land
What is colony
Forts that protected food and settlers in the area
What is Spanish presidios
Land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
What is encomiendas
Used to communicate quantities
What is quipu
Feature of Chinese civilization had the greatest impact on other civilizations
What is new technologies
The three ships Columbus set out with in August 1492
What is Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta
A person could be a peninsular in the Spanish colonies based on their
What is place of birth
What is Columbian Exchange
What is clan leaders
This device allowed ships to travel far from land
What is astrolabe
The first voyage to go around the world and helped people understand how large the Earth is
What is Magellan's voyage
Form of labor required heavy use of enslaved Africans in the West Indies and Brazil
What is sugar farming
A ceremonial dinner
What is potlatch
The main way the Incas modified their environment to grow more food
What is building terraces
How did technological innovations in China, like gunpowder, reach Europe
What is the Silk Road
How did Spanish and Portuguese exploration differ
What is Spanish were the first to reach an unknown continent
The social classes in New Spain were based on
What is ancestry