American Foundation Final
Bering Strait - Answer land bridge that connected Eurasia and North America —
brought the "immigrant" ancestors of Native America
Mayans - Answer Central America
Incas - Answer Peru
Aztecs - Answer Mexico
Pueblo - Answer means "village" in Spanish — Grande Canyon — did terrace
building/farming
Aztec Human Sacrifice - Answer offered human sacrifices to their sun god,
Huetzelopoctle, which was energized by blood sacrifice
Iroquois League - Answer 5 great Iroquois tribes formed the Iroquois league to end
infighting and to provide for a common defense
Iroquois Confederacy - Answer alliance of various northeast tribes — contained multiple
Iroquois tribes — developed political and organizational skills
Caravel - Answer size (biggest/longer trips), triangular sails (could be maneuvered),
weapon systems (cannons)
Marco Polo - Answer spent 17 years in China — stimulated European desire for a
cheaper route to the treasures
Prince Henry the Navigator - Answer established Portuguese School of Navigation —
tried to find sea route to Asia — trained early Portuguese explorers
Bartholomeu Dias - Answer established that a sea route to Asia exists — Cape of Good
Hope — tried to find sea route to Asia
Vasco da Gama - Answer first Portuguese explorer in India — established first
Portuguese colony in India — tried to find sea route to Asia
Ferdinand Magellan - Answer claimed the Philippines for Spain — his crew
circumnavigated the world
Christopher Columbus - Answer an Italian who sailed for Spain (Ferdinand and Isabella)
— landed in the Bahamas in October 12, 1492
Colombian Exchange - Answer exchange/spread of goods between two hemispheres
(Europe to New World) — goods included plants, animals, people, diseases, etc.
, American Foundation Final
Hernan Cortes - Answer almost single-handily took out 2 empires — took out Aztecs —
set sail from Hispaniola — burned ships when he got to Mexico — only way back home
was victory
Cortes' Advantages - Answer armor + guns, befriended smaller tribes in region, Aztecs
thought Cortes was a god (Quetzecoatl)
Francisco Pizarro - Answer conquered the Incas
Moctezuma - Answer Aztec chieftain — conquered by Cortes
Encomienda - Answer system placed by Spanish government — the Spanish had the
right to demand labor and tribute from the native Americans
Bartolomé de Las Casas - Answer catholic priest — spoke out against encomienda —
called it "a moral pertinence invented by Satan"
French Huguenots in Canada - Answer Canada was only open to single Catholic men
(single because they thought the New world was too dangerous for women and
children) — intermarried into Native Families — best relationship with Natives
Samuel de Champlain - Answer father of New France — established Quebec
French economy in the New World - Answer French colonies didn't have any slaves
because their economy wasn't based on labor — their economy was based on fur trade
(hunting)
Robert de La Salle - Answer established Louisiana
Roanoke - Answer the failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh
Jamestown - Answer first permanent English settlement — founded in Virginia by the
Virginia Company of London
Jamestown cash crop - Answer tobacco
Three kinds of English colonies - Answer royal, religious, corporate
Henry Hudson - Answer ventured into Delaware Bay, New York Bay, and the Hudson
River — Hudson River was named for him — established early colonies in New York
Peter Stuyvesant - Answer successfully absorbed New Sweden into New Netherland —
forced to surrender Manhattan to the English after they seized New Amsterdam
Bering Strait - Answer land bridge that connected Eurasia and North America —
brought the "immigrant" ancestors of Native America
Mayans - Answer Central America
Incas - Answer Peru
Aztecs - Answer Mexico
Pueblo - Answer means "village" in Spanish — Grande Canyon — did terrace
building/farming
Aztec Human Sacrifice - Answer offered human sacrifices to their sun god,
Huetzelopoctle, which was energized by blood sacrifice
Iroquois League - Answer 5 great Iroquois tribes formed the Iroquois league to end
infighting and to provide for a common defense
Iroquois Confederacy - Answer alliance of various northeast tribes — contained multiple
Iroquois tribes — developed political and organizational skills
Caravel - Answer size (biggest/longer trips), triangular sails (could be maneuvered),
weapon systems (cannons)
Marco Polo - Answer spent 17 years in China — stimulated European desire for a
cheaper route to the treasures
Prince Henry the Navigator - Answer established Portuguese School of Navigation —
tried to find sea route to Asia — trained early Portuguese explorers
Bartholomeu Dias - Answer established that a sea route to Asia exists — Cape of Good
Hope — tried to find sea route to Asia
Vasco da Gama - Answer first Portuguese explorer in India — established first
Portuguese colony in India — tried to find sea route to Asia
Ferdinand Magellan - Answer claimed the Philippines for Spain — his crew
circumnavigated the world
Christopher Columbus - Answer an Italian who sailed for Spain (Ferdinand and Isabella)
— landed in the Bahamas in October 12, 1492
Colombian Exchange - Answer exchange/spread of goods between two hemispheres
(Europe to New World) — goods included plants, animals, people, diseases, etc.
, American Foundation Final
Hernan Cortes - Answer almost single-handily took out 2 empires — took out Aztecs —
set sail from Hispaniola — burned ships when he got to Mexico — only way back home
was victory
Cortes' Advantages - Answer armor + guns, befriended smaller tribes in region, Aztecs
thought Cortes was a god (Quetzecoatl)
Francisco Pizarro - Answer conquered the Incas
Moctezuma - Answer Aztec chieftain — conquered by Cortes
Encomienda - Answer system placed by Spanish government — the Spanish had the
right to demand labor and tribute from the native Americans
Bartolomé de Las Casas - Answer catholic priest — spoke out against encomienda —
called it "a moral pertinence invented by Satan"
French Huguenots in Canada - Answer Canada was only open to single Catholic men
(single because they thought the New world was too dangerous for women and
children) — intermarried into Native Families — best relationship with Natives
Samuel de Champlain - Answer father of New France — established Quebec
French economy in the New World - Answer French colonies didn't have any slaves
because their economy wasn't based on labor — their economy was based on fur trade
(hunting)
Robert de La Salle - Answer established Louisiana
Roanoke - Answer the failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh
Jamestown - Answer first permanent English settlement — founded in Virginia by the
Virginia Company of London
Jamestown cash crop - Answer tobacco
Three kinds of English colonies - Answer royal, religious, corporate
Henry Hudson - Answer ventured into Delaware Bay, New York Bay, and the Hudson
River — Hudson River was named for him — established early colonies in New York
Peter Stuyvesant - Answer successfully absorbed New Sweden into New Netherland —
forced to surrender Manhattan to the English after they seized New Amsterdam
