Incas
tribe located in peru
mayans
tribe located in Central America
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Aztecs
tribe located in Mexico
Bering Strait Land Bridge
land bridge that connected Asia and North America together; enabled people to cross
pueblo
multi story terrace building, built ...
Western Civ FInal
Incas - Answer tribe located in peru
mayans - Answer tribe located in Central America
Aztecs - Answer tribe located in Mexico
Bering Strait Land Bridge - Answer land bridge that connected Asia and North America
together; enabled people to cross
pueblo - Answer multi story terrace building, built by Native Americans in the desert
south West
Iroquois Confederacy - Answer alliance of various northeast tribes ( 5 Iroquois nations )
Iroquois Confederacy - Answer developed the political and organizational skills to
sustain a robust military alliance that menaced its neighbors
Marco Polo - Answer first European to visit the far wast
Marco Polo - Answer Italian explorer who spent 17 years in china
Caravel - Answer new and improved ships used for long overseas exploration. it had a
larger size, triangular sails and weapon systems
Henry the Navigator - Answer established the Portuguese school of navigations
Portuguese school of navigations - Answer - ship construction
- training sailors to use equipment
- cartography - art of map making
Bartholemeu Dias - Answer discovered the "cape of good hope" showing a sea route to
Asia exists
Vasco da Gama - Answer established the first Portuguese colony in India
India - Answer Henry the Navigator, Bartholemeu Dias and Vasco da gama were
Portuguese and tried to find a sea route to --- by going around Asia
Christopher Columbus - Answer Italian sailor who sailed for Spain
Christopher Columbus - Answer sails the ocean in 1492, lands in the Caribbean
Columbian Exchange - Answer the exchange of plants, animals, people and diseases
spread between the 2 hempisheress
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Ecomienda - Answer placed by the Spanish government as the basis of their economic
system. it stated that the Spanish had the right to demand labor and tribute from the
native Americans
Hernan Cortez - Answer set sail with 11 ships to Mexico, he set out from Hispaniola and
went to Mexico. when he got there, he burns his ships
Hernan Cortez - Answer Took over Aztecs
Cortez's advantages - Answer - armor and guns
- befriended smaller tribes in the region
- the Aztecs think Cortez is a god
Fransisco Pizarro - Answer took over the Incas in Peru
conquistadors - Answer Hernan Cortez and Fransisco Pizarro were ---
Mestizos - Answer descendants of a spaniard and a native American
Mulatoes - Answer descendants of a Spaniard and African slave
Moctezuma - Answer Aztec chieftain
Aztecs - Answer believed in human sacrifice to their gods. they would sacrifice humans
to their sun god Huetzelopoctle
Magellan - Answer First to circumnavigate the world, and he claimed the Philippines
French Huguenots - Answer French Protestants (Calvinists), they were forbidden from
going to Canada
single, white, catholic males - Answer only people allowed to settle in Canada
native Americans - Answer intermarried with the French, the French had the best
relationship with them over anyone else
fur trade - Answer the french's economy was based on ---
Jamestown - Answer The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in
East Virginia; it was created by a charter
3 types of colonies - Answer religious, royal and corporate (business)
corporate colonies - Answer set up for business (British east India company)
Religious colonies - Answer mostly in New England, escaping religious persecution
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