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| Who reached the New World? | Columbus |
| What was the area known as the Americas (north, central, and south) called? | New World |
| Who were the native inhabitants of the New World? | Indians |
| What had the Indians of South and Cental America created? | Three great empires |
| Which people made up the Three G | Mayas, Incas, Aztecs |
| Who lived in Mexico, had a system of writing, stone buildings, studied the stars, had accurate calendars, and lived from the 4th to the 10th entury A.D.? | Mayas |
| Who lived in Mexico from the 13th - 16th century and built temples, pyramids, and palaces of stone? | Aztecs |
| Who conquered the Aztecs? | Cortes |
| Who conquered the Incas? | Pizarro |
| What was Pizarro and Cortes known as? | conquistadors |
| What were the wars that were begun in 1099 to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims known as? | Crusades |
| What was the period of intellectual revival beginning in the 1300s that profoundly changed attitudes toward life, learning, and religion? | Renaissance |
| Which nation became a major power in the New World as a result of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588? | England |
| Where did the Industrial Revolution begin during the seventeenth century? | Great Britain |
| Who was the king of England when the American colonists declared their independece in 1776? | George III |
| In the 1600s, what was the leading cash crop in Viginia? | tobacco |
| Why did the Puritans migrate (move) to New England? | religious freedom |
| Where did America's democratic heritage come from? | England |
| What was France's main interest in North America? | fur trade |
| What the practice of importing slaves to the West Indies to produce sugar which was sent to New England to make rum which was sold to Africa to buy slaves known as? | triangular trade |
