Things to Know (go back over this chapter and record answers for the following):
1) Who were the 1st Americans? How did they get the Americas? Nomadic Asian Hunters.
2) Discuss the following civilizations: Incas, Aztecs, Cahokia. Aztecs are an ancient mexican civilization. Incas were an ancient peru civilization. And the cahokia were a central american civilization.
3) What were the three sisters? Corn, Squash, .
4) Indirect discoverers of America: a) How do the crusades lead to the discovery of America?
b) How did Marco Polo encourage exploration? c) Why is Africa important?
They were christian knits.
He wrote a book about it.
They had to go around it.
5) What was Columbus looking for when he ran into the Americas? Where did he initial land?
6) What was the Columbian Exchange?
7) European diseases wiped out what percent of Native Americans? Why is this important? 90% A lot of history has been lost.
8) Who were the following people and what did they do:
a) Vasco Nunez Balboa: Discovered pacific ocean.
b) Ferdinand Magellan: First ship to circle the world.
c) Hernan Cortes: conquered aztecs.
d) Juan Ponce de Leon: Found florida.
e) Francisco Coronado:Famous explorer.
f) Hernado de Soto: buried in Mississippi river.
g) Francisco Pizarro: Conquered incas.
9) What is the "Black Legend"? The belief that only utopians had.
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