American history Unit 1/8

Question 1

Aztecs

Answer 1

Conquered nearby tribes
Three city-states
Strong military
Polytheistic (Many gods)
Advanced civilization with a ruler
Almost 5 million citizens

Question 2

Tenochtitlan

Answer 2

40,000-200,000 people
Built-in the middle of a lake
canals
A giant marketplace where up to 60,000 people traded goods.

Question 3

Hernan Cortes

Answer 3

Spanish conquistador
Conquered Cuba
Became mayor of Santiago
lead expedition to Mexico
Rejected order not to go
Responsible for the downfall of the Aztecs

Question 4

Burning the Ships

Answer 4

Emperor Montezuma the II welcomed Cortes and believed he was Quetzalcoatl
Cortes’ men were afraid of the Aztecs and wanted to mutiny
Cortes burned ships

Question 5

Fall of the Aztec Empire

Answer 5

Cortes captured the emperor and and attacked the city. Smallpox killed off half the population.
Close call but Spanish won.

Question 6

Rebuilding of Mexico

Answer 6

King of Spain made Cortes governor of Tenochtitlan
Called the area New Spain
Cortes rebuilt cathedrals and public areas
Franciscan Friars tried to spread the Catholic faith

Question 7

Inca Empire

Answer 7

2,500 miles from Quito, Equidor to Santiago, Cille
Had a ruler
between 10 and twelve million citizens
Highway connected empires 
Runners went 150 miles per day.
founded in 1438 and conquered in 1533

Question 8

Hernando de Soto

Answer 8

Conquistador
Explored Florida, Georgia, and Alabama to search for Gold.
Discovered the Mississippi River
Spread the Gospel
died of a Fever

Question 9

Seven cities of Cibola

Answer 9

Cities of Gold in southwest
Shipwrecked sailors rumored to have found them
Francisco Coronado from Mexico
Searched for said cities
First European to have seen the Grand Canyon
Addressed the City of Gold as a myth.

Question 10

St. Brendon

Answer 10

Sailed to the land of the promised (The new word)

Possibly a myth

Question 11

Christopher Columbus

Answer 11

Italian Navigator who thought it possible to reach China and India by sailing West.
Due to the expansion of the Ottoman empire, they needed a new way to go east.
After being rejected by Portugal he received three ships from King Ferdinand and King Isabella of Spain
(Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria)

Question 12

Vikings

Answer 12

Lived in Iceland

Question 13

Erik the Red

Answer 13

Red hair and beard
Lived in the Viking settlement of Iceland
Banished for killing two men sailed and found Greenland

Question 14

Leif Erickson

Answer 14

Helped bring Christianity to Greenland
Set sail to find mythical Bjarni land west
Landed in Newfoundland (Canada)
Built Stone Houses

Question 15

Vineland

Answer 15

First settlement established by Thorfinn Karlsefni
150 men and 5 women
Traded with the native whom they called Skraelings
War broke out and the Vikings were forced to return to Greenland

Question 16

Juan Ponce Leon

Answer 16

First Expedition to Florida
Searched for the fountain of youth
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
First Expedition across Central America to the Pacific

Question 17

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 17

Italian Explorer
Discovered the New World
It was not Asia but the new continent
America was named after him