Empires in America
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- strong ocean current
- El Nino
- narrowstrip of land connecting 2 continents
- isthmus
- high altitude of the Andes Mountains affects __,__,__
- rainfall, wind patterns, plant life
- an imaginary line about which trees cannot grow
- timberline
- mexican cowhand
- gaucho
- the grassland region of South America
- pampas
- What did Aztecs use to record pictures and symbols on paper?
- codex
- WHat job did most Aztecs hold?
- farmers
- Astronomers used this to predict eclipses and planet movement
- Aztec Calendar
- a gift or offering made to a god
- sacrifice
- Aztecs grew food on_________.
- chinampas
- When the Aztecs conquered other people, they had to pay ______ to the Aztecs.
- tribute
- level platforms of earch climbing like stairs
- terrace
- what was a terrace used for
- farming
- this was used to record information about trade, battle, birth, and death
- quipus
- Icas live in the_____ and that was different that the Aztecs who lived in____.
- Andes Mountains-high, Valley-low
- This was built by the Incas and was 19,000 miles long.
- highways
- What metal did Icas mine?
- gold
- This carries fresh water to cities and farms
- aqueduct
- This was an Incan fertilizer for the land they farmed
- dead fish
- whos said the universe was heliocentric
- Copernicus
- What did this theory prove?
- earth rotates around the sun
- Newton developed the theory of ______. This word is defined as_______.
- gravity, force that pulls things toward the earth
- able to see movement of stars and planets using
- telescope
- Scientific Method developer
- Rene Descartes
- a way of testing ideas to determine if they are true- deductive reasoning to solve problems
- scientific method
- What boat changed the way exploration had been done before?
- caravel
- who devoted his whole wealth and life to finding a sea route to Asia and Africa?
- Prince Herry
- portugese navigator who sailed around the southern tip of Africa
- Bartolomeu Dias
- first European to sail to India
- Vasco de Gama
- portugese seaman who suggested sailing around south america to reach asia
- Ferdinand Magellan
- English explorer hired by Dutch to find the Northwest Passage to Asia
- Henry Hudson
- How did Ferdinand Magellan die?
- battle of local phillepeneans
- lin of demarcation
- divides the world in half
- men who lead expeditions to the americas
- conquistadors
- conquistador who overthrew the incas
- pizzaro
- people of spanish decent but who were born in the americas were called and if they married and indian and had a child, the child was called a
- creoles, meztios
- after indians died, the europeans captured and brought slaves from africa
- africa
- journey across the atlantic ocean
- Middle Passage