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Exploration Of Latin America Flashcards

1
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What are the three G’s?

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Gold, God, and Glory

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How does exploration happen?

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Explorers want to find newer, safer routes to Asia

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Why can’t the explorers take the Silk Road without problems?

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Mongols controlled much of the area and often attacked the explorers

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4
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What was the solution to finding a new way to Asia?

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To head west

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5
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What was the first country to head west?

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Portugal

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6
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Who created a Navigational School?

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Who found a route around Africa to get to Asia?

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Vasco de Gama

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Where is Columbus from?

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Italy

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What was Spain’s plan?

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To travel the Atlantic to get to China (They even had a letter for the emperor of China)

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When did Columbus set sail for the New World?

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1492

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When Columbus hit New York where did he think he was?

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Off the coast of an island in Japan

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Who was the person that officially recognized that the New World was America?

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Amerigo Vespucci

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13
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Did Columbus discover America?

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No, for hundreds of years Native Americans lived in North and South America and Vikings had settled there at least 500 years before

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14
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Why was Columbus’s voyage so significant?

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Because of immediate contact and connection

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15
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Columbus’s voyages may have had greater consequences BLANK than BLANK

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biologically and culturally

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16
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What was the Columbian Exhange?

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Worldwide distribution of plants, animals, diseases

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17
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What is a list of some plants that Europe gave to the Americas?

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Rice
Wheat
Barley
Coffee
Sugarcane
Melons
Olives
Dandelions
Ragweed

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18
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What did the Americas give to Europe?

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Corn (Maize)
Potatoes
Beans
Cacao-Chocolate
Chicle-Gum
Pumpkins
Guavas
Squash
Tobacco

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What animals did Europe give to the Americas?

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Horses
Cattle
Pigs
Sheep
Goats
Chickens

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20
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What animals did the Americas give to Europe?

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Llamas
Alpacas
Guinea Pigs

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What diseases did Europe give to the Americas?

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Measles
Chicken Pox
Small Pox
Yellow Fever
Malaria
Flu
Cold

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What diseases did the Americas give to Europe?

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Syphilis
Hepatitis
Polio
Tuberculosis

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What were some of the effects of the Columbian Exchange?

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Both Hemispheres were introduced to each other’s cultures: food, animals, plants
They were both introduced to diseases that affected 90% of the Americas population

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Why did the Native American die of the diseases of the Europeans but the Europeans were affected as much?

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Native Americans were isolated for so long there bodies were never exposed to these disease and the Europeans had been around sickness their whole life, they were used to it.

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25
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What makes a civilization civilized or advanced?

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Technology, Language, Government, Religion, Location, Population

26
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Where did the Maya live?

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Mexico, Belize, Guatemala

27
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What Empire was like the Greeks?

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Maya

28
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What were the Maya known for?

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Pyramids, Temples (used for human sacrifices)

29
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How did the Maya make a 365 day calendar?

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By using the stars

30
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What are some possibility of how the Maya colllapsed?

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Famine
Warfare
Conquest
Disease
Drought

31
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Where did the Aztecs live?

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Central Mexico

32
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What was the Aztec’s capital?

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Tenochtitlan

33
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How did the Aztec get back and forth on their islands?

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There were causeways that were built

34
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How many people were sacrificed a year in Aztec culture?

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10,000-20,000 people

35
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What is a Chinampa?

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Floating gardens on rafts

36
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How many people lived in the capital at it’s civilization’s height?

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250,000 people

37
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Who was Hernan Cortez?

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Spanish Conquistador that destroyed the Aztec empire

38
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What was the year that Cortez arrived in the Aztec empire?

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1519

39
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When was the year that the Aztec were defeated by Cortez?

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1521

40
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Much of the Incan Empire ran into what large mountain range?

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City of Cuzco(Andes)

41
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What did the Incan empire include?

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Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina

42
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What is a terrace?

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Allow for farmers to take full advantage of space despite the rough terrain (Stairs)

43
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What were the bridges made out of?

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Grass

44
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Who were hired to deliver messages to people around the empire?

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Runners

45
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Who led a conquest against Atahualpa?

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Francisco Pizarro

46
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What did Francisco Pizarro demand from the leader of the Incas?

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Gold or to revert to Catholcism

47
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What is Machu Picchu?

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Prized Possesion located in Peru (a beautiful city)

48
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What is a Quipus?

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Accounted Knots

49
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Where were the Maya/Aztec’s empire?

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Central America

50
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Where were the Inca’s Empire?

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South America

51
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How long was Columbus’s voyage

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1492-1493 (2 years)

52
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When Columbus landed in America where did he land?

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Bahamas

53
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Who invented the use of terraces?

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Inca

54
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What empire did Hernan Cortez conquer?

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Aztec

55
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What empire had city-states?

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Maya

56
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What empire made a 365 day calendar?

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Maya

57
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What empire made causeways to get from one empire to the next?

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Aztecs

58
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What empire came up with Chinamapas?

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Aztecs

59
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Where did the portugese explore the most?

A

India

60
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Where did Spain explore the most?

A

Latin America

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