History test 3.15.18

Who discovered america

Native Americans

Mesoamerican cultures

Polytheistic Practiced human and animal sacrifice

Age of Discovery happened because

They were looking for alternate trade routes

Chinese and Japan closed doors to

Trade

Magellan circumnavigated the

World

Pizarro

Fought the incas in peru

Advocate for the native Americans

Bartholomeo de la casas

Zheng He

Chinese explorer, traveled Indian ocean

Hernan Cortes

Conquered the Aztec Empire

Jacques Cartier

Explored the St. Lawrence River

Conquistador

Explorer

Most manufactured goods were produced in

Europe

Battle of Cajamarca

Europeans defeated inca

Columbian Exchange

Exchange of plants, animals, ideas and culture from old world to new world

Encomienda System

Exploited indigenous people

1st English settlement

Jamestown

Vasco da Gama sailed around

Southern Africa

Renaissance period

Sparked curiosity and led to the age of discovery