Americas and Exploration

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What was the main reason Europeans began exploring in the 1400s?

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To find a trade route to Asia

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What were Europeans most interested from Asia?

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Spices

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Who gave the term "New World" to the Americas?

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European Explorers

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Which new foods came from America? Options: wheat and rice, apples and pears, spaghetti squash and cucumbers, potatoes and squash

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potatoes and squash

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A Mesoamerican civilization, which reached its height between 250-900.

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Maya

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People of a culture in the Andes Mountains of South America that arose in the 1400s and lasted until 1532.

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Inca

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The movement of plants, animals, and other living things between the eastern and western hemispheres after Columbus' voyage to the Americas in 1492.

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Colombian Exchange

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A Mesoamerican people who built an empire in central Mexico that flourished from 1428-1519.

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Aztec

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Floating gardens created to expand the available land in the Aztec empire.

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chinampas

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Which of the following statements is true about the European colonization of the New World? 1. The indigenous civilizations mostly benefited from the conquest and colonization of the New World. 2. European emigration was slow and people mainly traveled for scientific reasons. 3. European diseases and conquest led to the deaths of the native populations. 4. After conquest, there was no need for slavery and so it disappeared from the Americas.

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European diseases and conquest led to the deaths of the native populations.