History test Unit 1 Flashcards
(27 cards)
Silk road
An ancient trading route to trade from Rome to China
Missionary
people sent by a religious group to convert others to his or her faith.
Colony
A group of people that is kind of like a modern day city
new world
Where Christopher Columbus traveled to to find the Indians but found Native Americans and start the Colombian exchange.
old world
Which was home to the Europeans and before the new world was considered the whole world.
Inca
One of the biggest empires from the 1400’s to the 1530’s In modern day Mexico
Aztec
They biggest empire from the 1300’s to the 1400’s In modern day Mexico
Conquistadors
The people who Conquered the biggest empires and became rulers. in modern day Mexico like Hernan Cortes he overthrew the Aztec empire
Colombian Exchange
When the new world was discovered and explorers transported thing to and from the new world
Hernan Cortes
The person who overthrew the Aztec empire. In the 1500s
Triangular trade
a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
Tenochtitlan
The Aztec’s biggest city and accomplishment.
Tribute
You have to promicce to honor the aztec king or go d and if you do not pay the tribute you have to sacrface food gem livestor animal skins and cottion
Mita
it is an alternitive of paying taxes which they work for the government
pilgrims
people who came to the New World and were one of the first groups to find peace with the native Americas
Christopher Columbus
first man to discover the new world
Mayflower
a ship that the pilgrims came in
Indigenous
people that are native to a place like the native americans.
Machu Picchu
One of the Inca’s greatest cities and is now considered one of the seven wonders of the world.
Polytheistic
belief in more than one god.
Caravel
a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
Quipu
an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
Christianity
an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
Historical perspective
understanding both perspectives of the story that happend in the past
