WorksheetsCultural Diffusion in the Americas Vocab
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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
The exchange of plants, animals, and people between the Americas and Afro-eurasia.
The Atlantic Exchange
The Aztec Exchange
The Columbian Exchange
Pre-Columbian means...
before the voyage of Columbus
After the voyage of Columbus
While Columbus was alive
Year of Columbus' voyage to the Americas
1521
1776
1492
Floating gardens of the Aztecs
Tlatoani
Chinampa
Domestication
Division of Labor
Paying taxes in the form of goods or items
Tribute
Tlatoani
Tenochtitlan
Ranking of people in society
Pyramid
Empire
Hierarchy
When one government extends their power to control other places.
Empire
Democracy
Constitutional Monarchy
Breaking up the work, everyone does a different job.
Division of Labor
Limited Government
Human Geography
A huge, highly organized group of people, working together for survival
hunter-gatherer
civilization
When a country controls a piece of land in another place and settles it with people
hunter-gatherers
Agriculture
Colony
