Unit 1 Flashcards
What is the Silk Road?
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.
What is a Missionary?
The Missionary were people converting Indigenous people christian. and changing there language and learning there culture and language to teach them.
What are colonies?
Colonies are people coming from Europe to North and South America. The colonies used slave labor and there were 13 Colonies.
What is the triangular trade
African slave trade
What is the definition of New World?
What is the definition of old world
What is an Aztec
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.
What is a Tenochtitlan
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.
What is a tribute
Ex. payment made periodically( time to time) by one state or ruler to another, especially as a sign of dependence.
What are Conquistadors
The soldiers who went to seek fame, fortune and converts
What is an Inca
The Inca Empire was a vast empire that begin in the 1400s and lasted until 1532.
What is Mita
Mit’a was mandatory service in the society of the Inca Empire
What is Manchu
Picchu
Machu Picchu is where the Inca lived and it is the most amazing and well-built cities in the Andes mountains
What is Christianity
Followers of Jesus
What is quipu
Some thing the Incas used to maintain information about lands, crops and other important topics
What is polytheistic?
The Inca religion
What is caravel
a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
What is indigenous
They were people who were there first
What was the Columbian exchange?
swap of Old and New World germs, animals, plants, peoples, and cultures.
What is historical perspective?
understanding the social, cultural, intellectual, and emotional settings that shaped people’s lives and actions in the past.
What is a primary source?
It comes directly from a conflict or a point in history
What is a secondary source?
Ex. Someone or some thing telling what happened not directly from that event
Who is Herman Cortes?
Herman Cortes was a Spanish consequent, or who overthrew the Aztecs empire, and one Mexico for the crown of Spain
Who is Moctezuma the second
Moctezuma was the Aztec emperor
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca
Who is Atahualpa
Atahualpa was a traitor from one of the Inca kings
Who is Christopher Columbus?
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
Who is Bartholomew de Las Casas?
He was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous people by Europeans, in the American, and to call for the abolition slavery there
