History Vocabulary

One of the earliest ancient civilizations in Central America, characterized by large stone head sculptures

• Olmec

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and small parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica

• Mesoamerica

• Indigenous

• Olmec

• Conquistador

A word describing people or items that are native to an area

• Mesoamerica

• Indigenous

• Olmec

• Conquistador

A word describe Spanish explorers who came to the Americas and took control of the land there, often using brutal means

• Mesoamerica

• Indigenous

• Olmec

• Conquistador

Early civilization that settled in what would become modern day Mexico City, built their civilization on an island in Lake Texcoco. They lived there until they were conquered by Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortez.

• Olmec

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

Early civilization that lived in the Andes Mountains

• Olmec

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

Early civilization that lived in the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula, were known to have played the ancient Mesoamerican ball game, and disappeared mysteriously

• Olmec

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

A period in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, from 500-1500 AD, characterized by feudal systems and great influence of the Catholic Church in daily life

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Crusades

• Middle Ages

military expeditions of the Roman Catholic Church to take back Holy Lands in the Middle East from Muslim control, from 1096-1291 AD

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Crusades

• Middle Ages

Term meaning "rebirth", a period in 1300-1500s in which culture and the arts flourished

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Crusades

• Middle Ages