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How did the Columbian Exchange affect agriculture in Europe and the Americas?

People on both continents grew new foods and new animals to trade

Conquistador

Spanish conqueror or soldier searching for wealth and riches

Where did Columbus think he had landed when he arrived in the Americas?

asia

The Mayan and Aztec civilizations advanced the development of

calendar

Both (Mound builders & Olmec)

created works of art, had several social classes, held religious rituals

true or false: Columbus 1st to sail to america

false

The Spanish forced labor system in the Americas resulted in

Atrocities against native americans

What Spanish policy granted land and the Indians living on it to Spanish colonists as a reward?

Encomienda

What was not a motivating factor for Europeans to explore and colonize the Americas

Enslave natives to send to Europe

Who was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca?

Francisco Pizarro

How did the earliest humans arrive in the Americas over 10,000 years ago?

Land bridge connecting Eurasia to the Americas following animals

Where were the Maya located?

Mexico, ucatan peninsula, mesoamerica, central america

Who was the leader of the Aztecs when the Spanish first arrived in Mexico?

Montezuma

Which statement best describes a result of the encounter between Europeans and native populations of the Americas?

Native americans lives were changed forever by colonization

What object that the Olmec created do most people think of?

Stone heads

Why did the Aztecs in Tenochtitlán need the technologies listed below?

Tenochtitlán was built on an island

Why were diseases like smallpox especially deadly among the tribes of the Americas?

Their immune systems were not used to the disease

Which best defines a civilization?

a community that has features such as cities, governments, workers, trade, and religion

What made it possible for the Olmecs and the Mayas to create permanent settlements?

farming

What was Pizarro's motivation for exploring the Incan Empire?

gold and silver

The Aztecs built their capital city on what would become present day.

mexico city

Mound builders

ruins found in US

What disease that almost wiped out the entire population of Native Americans in the Americas.

smallpox

The first Europeans to make settlements in the Americas were the

spanish

true or false: the mayans made paper

true

What was a result of exploration of the Americas?

violent conflicts

Name three things that led to the Spanish conquering the Indians.

weapons, horses, and smallpox

olmecs

written language & ruins found in Mexico


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