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US History quiz 1-19
quiz 1-19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Clovis People | Land based migrants that are thought to be the first american society |
| Incas | Created largest empire in the Americas, very complex society with a network of paved roads and a complex administrative system |
| Maya | An advanced society that lived in parts of central America and the Yucatan peninsula. Very advanced developed written language and an accurate calendar. |
| Aztecs | A warlike society that was very large and conquered everyone around them. City had impressive public buildings, military and slave workforce. Famous for their daily human sacrifices. |
| Aztec Human Sacrifice | Used mostly prisoners of combat. A daily sacrifice where they would cut out the sacrifices heart while they are still alive. Believed that this pleased the sun god and that this is what made the sun rise everyday |
| Black Death in Europe | A catastrophic epidemic of the bubonic plague that began in Constantinople 1357. Killed more then a 3rd of Europe's population |
| Marco Polo | Traveled to Asia and brought back exotic spices, dyes, clothes and stories. Began europe's interest in trading over-seas with Asian countries |
| Prince Harry the Navigator | Helped Portugal to power by devoting his life to the promotion of exploration |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who wanted to travel west across the atlantic as a new way to get to asia. Was funded by Queen Isabella of Spain and his voyage was in 1492. Ended up landing in the bahamas and discovering the Americas |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Wrote a series of vivid descriptions of the new world and helped popularize the Americas. Americas named after him |
| Aztec Theory of Warfare | Didn't kill the people they took over but captured them and used them for later sun-god sacrifices |
| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of goods between the Americas and Afroeurasia. Brought corn, tomatos, peppers, beans, potatos and tabacco to Afroeurasia. Brought beasts of burden, bananas and sugar to the Americas. Brought disease to the americas killing 80-90% population. |
| Beasts of Burden in Pre-Columbian America | The Americas lacked beasts of burden other than llamas. Made trade and agriculture challenging for them |
| Hernando Cortez | An unhappy Spanish gov. official in Cuba that tired twice to defeat the Aztec civilization. Was successful the 2nd time because he had exposed them to smallpox durring the first attempt |
| Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors |
| Pizarro | Conquered the Incas in Peru and opened the way for other Spanish advancements in South-America |
| Pope's Rebellion | A native american priest who when Spanish tried to suppress Indian rituals, led uprising that killed hundreds of europeans and drove them out. ****Eventually came back and defeated them though |
| Smallpox | A disease that was spread unintentionally to the native americans by europeans, resulting in many of their deaths |
| Policy of subjugation and extermination | treating natives badly using war tactics |
| sugar and bananas | part of columbian exchange, products that europeans brought to the americas |
| cattle, pigs, and sheep | part of columbian exchange, products that europeans brought to the americas |
| maize, squash, beans, peppers, tomatoes | part of columbian exchange, products that Americas sent back to afroeuasia |
| intermarriage | spanish men mostly came without women so they would marry the native women and it helped people become more unified and diverse also the tolerance for each other grew |
| slavery and sugar | sugar was labor intensive crop and also very important so it called for much more labor which meant more slaves |
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