Unit 1

Question 1

What is the Silk Road?

Answer 1

An ancient trade route between Rome and China, It connected with India , was the longest road but became very unsafe because of the rise in Arabian power rising.

Question 2

What is a Missionary?

Answer 2

The Missionary were people converting Indigenous people christian. and changing there language and learning there culture and language to teach them.

Question 3

What are colonies?

Answer 3

Colonies are people coming from Europe to North and South America. The colonies used slave labor and there were 13 Colonies.

Question 4

What is the triangular trade

Answer 4

African slave trade

Question 5

What is the definition of New World?

Question 6

What is the definition of old world

Question 7

What is an Aztec

Answer 7

A group of people who built the vast empire in what is today central Mexico and we’re know for being fierce warriors who took over additional territory through warfare.

Question 8

What is a Tenochtitlan

Answer 8

It is the capital city to the Aztecs built on an island texcoco. It was Home to more than 200,000 people and had huge temples, a busy market and beautiful palace.

Question 9

What is a tribute

Answer 9

Ex. payment made periodically( time to time) by one state or ruler to another, especially as a sign of dependence.

Question 10

What are Conquistadors

Answer 10

The soldiers who went to seek fame, fortune and converts

Question 11

What is an Inca

Answer 11

The Inca Empire was a vast empire that begin in the 1400s and lasted until 1532.

Question 12

What is Mita

Answer 12

Mit’a was mandatory service in the society of the Inca Empire

Question 13

What is Manchu
Picchu

Answer 13

Machu Picchu is where the Inca lived and it is the most amazing and well-built cities in the Andes mountains

Question 14

What is Christianity

Answer 14

Followers of Jesus

Question 15

What is quipu

Answer 15

Some thing the Incas used to maintain information about lands, crops and other important topics

Question 16

What is polytheistic?

Answer 16

The Inca religion

Question 17

What is caravel

Answer 17

a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.

Question 18

What is indigenous

Answer 18

They were people who were there first

Question 19

What was the Columbian exchange?

Answer 19

swap of Old and New World germs, animals, plants, peoples, and cultures.

Question 20

What is historical perspective?

Answer 20

understanding the social, cultural, intellectual, and emotional settings that shaped people’s lives and actions in the past.

Question 21

What is a primary source?

Answer 21

It comes directly from a conflict or a point in history

Question 22

What is a secondary source?

Answer 22

Ex. Someone or some thing telling what happened not directly from that event

Question 23

Who is Herman Cortes?

Answer 23

Herman Cortes was a Spanish consequent, or who overthrew the Aztecs empire, and one Mexico for the crown of Spain

Question 24

Who is Moctezuma the second

Answer 24

Moctezuma was the Aztec emperor

Question 25

Who is Francisco Pizarro?

Answer 25

Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca

Question 26

Who is Atahualpa

Answer 26

Atahualpa was a traitor from one of the Inca kings

Question 27

Who is Christopher Columbus?

Answer 27

He was discovering the New World in 1492 and he thought he was in India, but he was in the Caribbean and called it the Indies and this was during the exploration

Question 28

Who is Bartholomew de Las Casas?

Answer 28

He was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous people by Europeans, in the American, and to call for the abolition slavery there