The Shaping of North America
Peopling the Americas
The Earliest Americans
Inderect Discoverers of the New World
Europeans Enter Africa
Columbus Comes upon a New World
When Worlds Collide
The Spanish Conquistadores
The Conquest of MExico
The Spread of Spanish America
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| 960648379 | Incas | Ancient Tribe in Mexico,created the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s. Main crop was maize. | |
| 960648380 | Aztec | Ancient tribe in Mexico, a member of the Nahuatl people. overthrown by Cortes in 1519. Main crop was maize. | |
| 960648381 | Three-Sister Farming | Corn, beans and squash were traded with Europe | |
| 960648382 | Caravel | A midevilal ship, the strongest of its time. Could sail against the wind. | |
| 960648383 | Plantation | A large farm used formplanting and growing crops | |
| 960648384 | Columbian Exchange | Awidespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable disease, and ideas | |
| 960648385 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Portagul and Spain went to the Pope so he split the Americans in half and told them Portagul gets this half and Spain gets this half. | |
| 960648386 | Conquistadores | An Spanish adventurer | |
| 960648387 | Capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership of capital | |
| 960648388 | Encomienda System | A system in which the Indians were essentially slaves to the Spanish. The Spanish government was allowed to give Indians to colonists in return for the colonists to try to convert the Indians to Christianity. | |
| 960648389 | Mestizos | Offspring of Corte's soldiers and the Native American women. | |
| 960648390 | Pope's Rebellion | The Indians retaliated by burning the Roman Catholic Churches and killing the Priests | |
| 960648391 | Black Legend | The misdeeds of the Spanishh in the New World. Butchered the Indians, which is known as the "Killing of Christ", destroyed their homes, stole all of their gold, and infected them with smallpox. But they are credited for introducing their culture, religion, laws, and language to the Indians. | |
| 960648392 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish Conquistador that defeated the powerful Aztecs. |
