Geography and Human Settlement

People choose to live where they do because of:

• job opportunities

• climate

• family ties

• all of the above

Objective: I can describe the impact of European explorers’ encounters with the Aztec and Inca/Inka. Essential Question: Who were the European explorers?

• Christopher Columbus and Hernán Cortés

• Marco Polo and Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco da Gama and Amerigo Vespucci

• James Cook and Leif Erikson

The arrival of Europeans led to the downfall of which two major empires?

• Aztec and Inca

• Roman and Greek

• Mongol and Ottoman

• British and French

The first European settlers to reach the Americas were:

• The Vikings

• The Spanish

• The English

• The French

What year did a Spanish expedition led by Christopher Columbus reach the Americas?

• 1492

• 1500

• 1485

• 1510

What does the term 'colonization' mean?

• A) A group of settlers go to a place & establish political control over it

• B) To overcome and take control of a group or place

• C) To explore unknown territories

• D) To trade with native people.

The European settlers were:

• Native Americans

• Africans

• Asians

• Colonists from Europe

The European settlers impacted the Aztec empire by:

• introducing new diseases that devastated the population

• establishing trade relations that benefited both parties

• helping the Aztecs expand their territory

• preserving the Aztec culture and traditions

What caused a war to break out between Cortes and the Aztecs?

• Cortes took gold and riches from the Aztecs

• The Aztecs attacked the Spanish settlers

• A natural disaster

• A treaty was broken

Eventually, who conquered the Aztecs, marking a landmark victory for the European settlers?

• Columbus

• Cortes

• Pizarro

• Magellan