Cultural Diffusion in the Americas Vocab

Native to or originally from a place

• Human geography

• Indigenous

• Cultural Diffusion

The spread and mixing of cultures

• Cultural replacement

• Cultural Diffusion

• Indigenous

Italian explorer who made opened contact between the Americas and Europe causing devastating effects for indigenous people

• Hernan Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

• Marco Polo

Spanish explorer who caused the fall of the Aztecs.

• Hernan Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

• Queen Isabella

Religion that the Spanish sought to spread in other parts of the world

• Judaism

• Catholicism

• Islam

• Hinduism

Permanent structures like buildings and roads

• Agriculture

• Irrigation

• Infrastructure

• Domestication

Large scale farming

• Agriculture

• Irrigation

• Domestication

• Infrastructure

Population

• Number of crops

• Number of people

• Number of languages

Capital city of the Aztecs

• Tlatoani

• Washington

• Tenochtitlan

The three reasons for European exploration.

• Gold, God, Glory

• Food, Water, Shelter