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Latin America Study
Term | Definition |
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Hardest Warriors? | Conquistadors |
Aztec conquistador | Cortez |
Who was Malini? | slave taken by cortez- spoke both languages |
What did cortez want? | Gold |
Why did Aztecs know he was coming? | Montazuma- ruler banished but would one day return to take back empire Ketzo Quato- very powerful god expelled from aztecs |
How did cortez show power? | horses and guns |
Gifts exchanged? | Cortez- Gold; wanted even more Aztecs; gifts- didn't like them |
Soldiers rebelled | cortez made ships unsailable |
Capital of the Aztec empire? | Tenochtitlan |
Capital of the Incan empire | Cuzco |
Emperor of Incan empire | Topa Inca |
Relay runners | 250 miles in a day 5min 45 sec mile time |
Conducted censuses | quipos- recorded information |
Architecture | Aqueducts, Walls at 80 angles for earthquakes |
Incan ruins | Machu Piccu |
incan gods | Inti- sun god; believed inti was their "parent" human sacrifice Viracocha- creater of all people |
Incan conquistador | Francisco Pizaro |
Things in common throughout all three | human sacrifice, believed in many gods, chinampas |
Helped conquer empires | Diseases, weapons, new things |
President of cuba | Fidel Castro |
Government | Communism |
Terms to know | Illiterate- unable to read or write Ally-a country joined to another country for a special purpose Exile-a person who leaves his or her homeland for another country; often for political reasons |
spanish first to colonize there | brought African slaves over |
mostly tropical climate | |
Hispaniola | formed by volcanoes- several still active today |
lots of diversity- rich culture | |
lots of natural resources | |
very serious about sports especially baseball | |
Colonization | british, Spanish, African, french |
largest island in Caribbean | |
Cuban missile crisis | allies with soviet union after ww2,Nikita Khrushev- leader of soviet union |
1868-1899- struggled for independence | May 20th won freedom |
After war dictators ruled | many people fled to the us |
Haiti | 2nd largest island, shares Hispaniola with Dominican republic, colonized by French, one of poorest countries in the world |
won independence in 1804 |