Chapter 16

Question 0

Conquistador

Answer 0

the spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the americas in 16th century

Question 1

Potlatch

Answer 1

a ceremonial feast used to display rank and prosperity in some NW coast tribes of Native Americans

Question 2

pueblos

Answer 2

a village of large apartment like buildings made of clay and stone, built by Anasazi and later ppls of the americas SW

Question 3

Native American Land beliefs

Answer 3

***viewed the land as sacred, that couldn’t be bought or sold
influenced most aspects of Mayan life
polytheistic

Question 4

mesoamerica

Answer 4

an area extending from cent. Mexico to Honduras, where several of the ancient complex societies of the americans developed

Question 5

Mound Builders

Answer 5

created their own, unique techniques of building
used mainly for burials, but had other uses as well (religious ceremonies)
possibly traded all the way to meso america

Question 6

Iroquois League

Answer 6

a group of Native American peoples who spoke related languages, lived in the eastern Great Lakes region of North America and formed an alliance in late 1500s