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Flashcards by Anta Cisse-Graham, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Anta Cisse-Graham
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Incas | in Peru and had advanced agricultural practices |
| Mayans | in Central America and also had advanced agricultural practices |
| Aztecs | in Mexico and sought the favor of their gods by providing human sacrifices regularly |
| Pueblos | constructed integrate irrigation systems to water their cornfields |
| Creeks, Choctaws, and Cherokees | had a high population density |
| Iroquois Confederacy | developed the political and organizational skills to sustain a robust military alliance that menaced its neighbors, both Native American and Europeans alike for over a century |
| Vinland | (Newfoundland today) land where seafarers from Scandinavia landed |
| Portuguese slave trade | trading posts along the shores of Africa to trade gold and slaves, created by the Portuguese |
| Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer who reached India |
| Columbus | Italian Seafarer who convinced Spanish Monarchs to fund his expeditions to find new routes to Asia |
| Hispaniola | where the population of the Taino Natives dwindled |
| Old World diseases | smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus |
| Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) | secured Spains claim to Columbus' discovery |
| Vasco Nunez Balboa | discovered the Pacific Ocean |
| Ferdinand Magellan | explorer who became the first to circumnavigate the globe; started in Spain |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Spaniards who explored Florida |
| Hernando de Soto | discovered and crossed the Mississippi River; mistreated the Indians |
| Hernán Cortés | signed contracts to Spanish monarchs; lust to get rich; set sail from Cuba bound for Mexico |
| John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) | sent by the English to explore the north-eastern coast of North America in 1497 and 1498 |
| Giovanni da Verranzzano | Italian Mariner dispatched by the French king to probe the eastern seaboard in 1524 |
| Robert de la Salle | sent on an expedition down the Mississippi River by the French |
| Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo | explored the California coast in 1542 but failed to find anything of much interest |
| Father Junipero Serra | led Spanish missionaries in 1769 and found California's first mission at San Diego |
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