Americas

Explorer who met the Aztec Emperor and conquered Tenochtitlan in 1521...

The reconquering of Spanish Muslim areas by the Catholic monarchy in 1492..

Ancient Incan city, located high in the Andes mountains; best surviving Inca city.

People sent from Spain to rule the colonies in the king's name...

People at the top of the colonial social order; nobles and landowners born in Spain.

A study of the Aztecs, Maya and Inca agricultural systems would show that these civilizations..

The area known as present day Mexico and Central America...

Explorer from Spain who conquered the Inca.

bundles of knotted and colored ropes, used by the Inca to count, keep records and send messages

The exchange of products and ideas between Europe, Africa and America.

One of the earliest civilizations in the Americas, known for their time keeping and calendar.

Aztec Emperor who befriended the explorers, only to be betrayed by them and later conquered.

What was a direct result of the Atlantic slave trade on West Africa?

What was one important effect of the Columbian Exchange?

2nd in the colonial social order, people of Spanish background who were born in the New World.

Portuguese explorer who was the first to circumnavigate the world.

The journeys of da Gama, Magellan and Columbus in the late 1400s became possible because of the

An empire of Mexica, who developed in the Valley of Mexico. Were an alliance of several peoples

Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southern tip of Africa, an all-water route to India.

The Aztec calendar and Mayan use of zero illustrate that pre-Columbian cultures in the Americas