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13 Cards in this Set
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If you were a conquistador coming over for economic reasons to find gold, convert Natives to Catholicism, and bring glory to your king in the southwest, you would most likely be from which European country? |
Spain
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If you were an explorer in the northeast and Canada, running fur trading posts, you would most likely be from which European country?
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France
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If you were a Puritan who came over to America to escape religious persecution, you would most likely be from which European country?
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England.
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The Bering Land Bridge
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An area between Asia and North America that is currently under the Bering Sea and also the route many scientists think First Americans took from Asia to the Americas during the last Ice Age
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Pachacuti
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Incan emperor famous for founding the Incan Empire
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The Incan capital
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Cuzco
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The Aztec capital
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Tenochtitlan
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The Aztecs developed floating gardens that are still in use to this day
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Chinampas
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What the Incans cut into the sides of the steep mountains of the Andes so they could grow their crops.
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Terraces
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Why the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs
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The Aztecs thought they might be gods, the other tribes conquered by the Aztecs helped the Spanish defeat them, and they were assisted by Doña Marina, their guide and translator |
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The Spanish conquered the Incans easily because:
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The Incans were fighting among themselves and the Spanish had better weapons. |
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The Iroquois Confederacy
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A union of 5 similar Native American peoples that survives to the present day
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Iroquoian women
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Native American women who owned household property and selected sachems and clan leaders |
