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The city of Tenochtitlan was the center of this ancient civilization

What was the Aztec Civilization? Greenwich indicates the prime meridian, which is zero degrees longitude

Aztecs built a great civilization in this area of Middle America

What is the Valley of Mexico?

In 1325, Aztecs built this capital city upon a marshy lake, now known as Mexico City

What is Tenochtitlan? (teh nawch tee tlahn)

Building pyramids was the accomplishment of both the Aztec and another Native American Civilization

What was the Mayan Civilization?

Allies of Spanish in Cortez’s defeat of the Aztec

Who were Moctezuema’s enemies among the Native American tribes?

The Incan Civilization was known for Hieroglyphics, pyramids and floating gardens True/False

What is false? Incan civilization was famous for their roads and aqueducts, which allowed them to bring water to villages hundreds of miles away.

Which two lines of latitude is Easton located in between

What are 40 and 41 degrees north?

The Incan civilization is located on which coast of South America

What is the west coast?

The Inca were not like the Aztec and Maya who had a written language, hieroglyphics. Instead they kept records using a knotted string more commonly known as this

What is a quipu?

Harrisburg located between these two lines of longitude

What are 76 and 77 degrees west?

The first permanent English settlement is this town in Virginia

What is Jamestown, Virginia?

Unlike the Spanish, French settlers treated Native Americans fairly and were interested in this type of trade in North America

What was fur trade?

Based on the timeline below answer the following: which event occurred first – Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire or the time of King William’s War

What was Pizarro conquering the Incan Empire?

There were many reasons that English settlers came to America. For some it was to escape political problems and poverty; for others, religious freedom. In short, this was the reason to leave for America

What was to start a new life – a better life than they had in England?

Based on the timeline below determine the following: number of years after Columbus’s arrival in the New World was the first successful English settlement.

What are 115 years?

The arrival of the Spanish improved the quality of life for Native Americans True/False

What is false? Native Americans died from hunger, the hardships of slavery and disease

The Aztec Empire fell in 1521 to this Spanish conqueror

Who was Cortez?

When Cortes defeated the Aztecs, he did not have as many soldiers as the Aztecs had, but he did have other factors on his side

What were diseases, horses, superior weapons and other Native American tribes?

The Western Hemisphere sent chocolate, potatoes and maize to Europe. In return, the Spanish brought this animal to the Western Hemisphere

What are horses?

Of Aztec, Mayan and Incan, which civilization was not defeated by the Spanish

What the Mayan Civilization?

Some scientists think that Native Americans migrated from this continent

What is Asia? North America Asia

Give 2 similarities between Spanish and French treatment of Native American

What are: A. They both needed Native Americans to survive. B. They both came to get land and resources.

Give 2 differences between Spanish and French treatment of Native American

What are: A. The French needed the natives for survival. B. The Spanish were cruel and betrayed their trust and enslaved those not killed.

Three reasons that Jamestown was considered a successful colony

What are Jamestown: -had its own government -had the support of England -was the first settlement to survive beyond settlement and continue as a colony ? (For instance, Roanoke was earlier but did not have any survivors when supply ships returned from England.)

Reason Native Americans were able to migrate from Asia to the Americas

What was they migrated across a land bridge during the last great Ice Age?