a period of technological improvement and increased crop productivity

region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to southern Mexico.

civilization on the Yucatan peninsula and southern Mexico, known for mathematics, art, architecture and a calendar.

an historically powerful Northeast Native American Confederacy

sponsored Portugal's voyages of discovery;

An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492

a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries,

emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.;either killed by his own people or murdered by the Spanish.

a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico

Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor

Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope

period in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries when there was a surge of interest in and production of art and literature.