Unit 4 Descriptive Logs

Aztec
1. term used to refer to certain ethnic groups or central Mexico
2. groups that spoke Nahuatl language
3. a member of a people of central Mexico
4. civilization was at its height at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century
5. came to control large areas of Mesoamerica north of the Gulf of Tehuantepec





Inca
1. a member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru
2. established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest
3. a ruler or high-ranking member of the Inca empire
4. a member of any of the peoples ruled by the Incas
5. largest empire in pre-Columbian America





Christopher Columbus
1. a navigator, colonizer and one of the first Europeans to explore the Americas
2. established the New World
3. first voyage was in 1492
4. discovered San Salvador Island
5. opened the door to the Americas





Colony
1. territory under the immediate political control of a state.
2. a group of people with the same interests or ethnic background
3. British colonies became the original 13 states of the US
4. "overseas possession"
5. people from different countries settle and start a town





Conquistador
1. a conqueror
2. a leader in a Spanish conquest
3. a small group of adventurers
4. sometimes were armies
5. a person on a conquest to the Americas or Mexico





Hernando Cortes
1. a Spanish conquistador
2. began the first phase of Spanish colonization in the Americas
3. conquistador of Mexico
4. sailed for in the New World in 1504
5. conquered the Aztecs





Francisco Pizarro
1. conqueror of the Inca Empire
2. Spanish conquistador
3. founded the city of Lima
4. conquistador of Peru
5. went to the New World in 1502





Mestizo
1. a person of mixed racial ancestry
2. mix of European and Native American ancestry
3. used in Spanish Empire
4. form the majority of Latin America population
5. mixed foreign ancestry





Middle Passage
1. forced transportation of African people from Africa to New World
2. Atlantic slave trade
3. goods were sold and traded for slaves
4. over 2o million were taken into slavery
5. slaves were taken across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and Americas





Triangular Trade
1. trade between ports and regions
2. trade between West Africa, West Indies, and Europe
3. most notorious during 18th century
4. usually traded slaves
5. cloth, copper, trinkets, guns and ammunition traded





Columbian Exchange
1. exchange of plants, animals, foods, slaves etc.
2. trade between western and eastern hemisphere
3. ecology, agriculture, and culture
4. contact between old and new world
5.