Early Americas Vocab Quiz

The basic structures and facilities needed to operate a society

• Infrastructure

• Rebellion

• Chinampa

• Bartering

To slaughter an animal or person as an offering to God

• Sacrifice

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

• Conquistador

• Rebellion

A method of clearing fields for agriculture by setting fire to vegetation

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

• Infrastructure

• Chinampa

• Specialization

A floating field that supported agriculture

• Chinampa

• Maize

• Infrastructure

• Sacrifice

An act of violent or open resistance to an established government or ruler

• Rebellion

• Conquistador

• Indigenous

• Maize

A type of corn first domesticated by early Mesoamericans

• Maize

• Chinampa

• Specialization

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

A Spanish conqueror who sought gold and other riches in the Americas

• Conquistador

• Sacrifice

• Bartering

• Indigenous

Becoming an expert in a particular subject or skill

• Specialization

• Rebellion

• Infrastructure

• Bartering

The act of exchanging goods and services

• Bartering

• Maize

• Conquistador

• Specialization

To be native to a particular place

• Indigenous

• Conquistador

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

• Infrastructure