World History Unit 3 Review

The Aztecs farmed on artificial floating islands called what?

• Chinampas

• Farming Terraces

• Artificial Floating Islands

• Barges

This is a term for individuals of European descent who were born in the New World.

• Peninsulares

• Creoles

• Mulattos

• Mestizos

This invention helped spur on the maritime revolution.

• Oars

• Night Vision Goggles

• Glasses

• Astrolabe

The Columbian Exchange was a widespread exchange of...

• currency

• animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideals

• music

• art

Who captured the Aztec king and held him captive, helping to incite a rebellion that weakened the Aztecs?

• Balboa

• Columbus

• Cortes

• Pizzaro

The Spanish were able to conquer the Meso-American civilizations because...

• The took advantage of internal civil wars and strife between native populations.

• The had better weapons and armor.

• The diseases they brought decimated the native populations.

• All of the above.

Pizzaro lead the conquest of which population?

• Incas

• Aztecs

• Mayans

• East Indians

The encomienda system was

• a system in which the Spanish converted natives to Islam

• a system in which the Spanish could demand labor from the natives (basically slavery)

• a system in which the Spanish shipped as many natives as they could back to Spain

• a system in which the Spanish practiced the peaceful co-existence with natives

True of False: under the system of mercantilism, the colonies could trade with one another in addition to trading with the mother country.

• True

• False

The route the slave ships took across the Atlantic was called what?

• The Great Slave Road

• The Slave Route

• The Middle Passage

• The Slave Highway