Social Studies 6th Unit 2 Lesson 2

By jdroll59, Oct 2010

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Aztecs	a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519
Christopher Columbus	Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China
Conquistadors	leaders in the Spanish conquest of the Americas
Disease	a health condition that killed many native Indians when brought to the New World by European explores
Maya	a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems
Plantations	large, one-crop farm with many workers
Push/Pull factors	circumstances (economic, social) that push people out of one area and pull them towards another
Pyramids	a building where the outer surfaces are triangular and converge at a point-found in Egypt and Central America
Systematically	in a consistent manner-disease systematically spread throughout the Indian culture killing many

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