Inca empire Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Chapter 20 - The Atlantic World (Spain's overseas empire, Jamestown, Slave Trade, Columbian exchange) Exam 2024 Christopher Columbus -Answer-Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China () colony -Answer-a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland Hernando Cortes -Answer-Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico () Montezuma -Answer-Aztec chieftan; encountered Cortes ...

Renaissance Intellectual movement that lifted the darkness of the Middle Ages Jesuits Religious organization that held to the philosophy that "the end justifies the means" First Crusade Captured Asia Minor and Jerusalem Rosetta Stone Name given to the stone that Jean Francis Champollion used to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics Babel Where God confused the languages Hapsburgs Austrian family who ruled as holy Roman Emperor's for almost 300 years Feudalism Th...

Examples of sustainable prehistoric civilization(s) include..... - Inca and Zuni Hopi and Zuni maize is...... - Open-pollenated and drought-tolerant The Zuni use small rock dams to slow and diffuse the water onto their agricultural fields. These rock dams work well when...... - Rainfall is more intense The Inca abandoned terraces because..... - The terraces were above the irrigation canal and were no longer needed due to the population crash The Incan terrace soils had high levels of...

Beringia a land bridge that supposedly existed between Asia and North America Polytheism the belief in or worship of more than one god Chinampas raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. Chasquis a system of runners that traveled the Inca roads as a kind of postal service, carrying messages from one end of the empire to the other. Quipu An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numeri...

The Atlantic World Exam- 100% Pass!! Today's mesitzos are descendants of PORTUGUESE COLONISTS and native Americans -Answer-False, Spanish HERNANDO CORTES marched his force of about 600 men through Mexico to conquer the Aztec empire -Answer-True In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail EAST ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN in search of a trade route to Asia and it's riches -Answer-False, Atlantic The purpose of Christopher Columbus's second voyage to the Americas was to establish SPANISH COLONIES...

APUSH AMSCO Period 1 Questions and Answers Already Graded A Columbian Exchange Trans-Atlantic trade of animals, plants, germs, and people. Profoundly changed each area it hit (Europe, North America, South America, Caribbean, Africa) Natives and Africans Were used for labor in agriculture and mining precious metals. Resisted oppression by maintaining elements of their cultures. European countries in America Spanish and Portuguese, followed by the French and Dutch, and then the English. Columbu...

CSET Subtest 1 Latest Version Already Passed Phoneme smallest part of spoken language that makes difference in the meaning of words. if has two phoneme /i/ /f/ chech /ch/ /e/ /k/ Grapheme smallest part of written language that represent a phoneme in the spelling of a word Phonemic awareness ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds phoneme in words. The understanding that that sounds work together to make words. Helps in reading Decoding analysis of spoken or written sym...

After sailing westward, in what part of the world did Columbus think he had landed? - Asia (East Indies) After the destruction of the Spanish Armada, he was commissioned to raid Spanish towns and treasure in the New World, leading to his circumnavigation of the world in 1577. - Drake In 1531, he led an expedition into South America and began the conquest of the Inca Empire. - Francisco Pizarro In 1682, this French explorer traveled the length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico ...

World History A Unit 4 Exam (2023/2024) 100% Pass Which best describes the reason for increased European sailing voyages during the Age of Discovery? Explorers were seeking to find new routes to the spice markets of Asia. Which accurately describes why European nations were so eager to fund expeditions to the New World? European nations funded expeditions to the New World to gain lands, natural resources, and eventually income. Which options accurately describe why Portugal sought to explore ...

Aztec Who was the Native American empire that controlled present day Mexico until they were conquered in 1521? Inca Who was the highly advanced South American civilization that occupied present day Peru until they were conquered by the Spanish in 1532? Brainpower Read More Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:15 Full screen Bering Strait What was the land bridge between Asia and North America now is a passage of water from Ru...