Unit 9: Indigenous Americas
North and South American Empires
(the Aztec, Inca, and Maya)
Need to Know:
- Find the Andes Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, the Appalachian Mountains, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Plains, and the Central Mexican Plateau on a map of North and South America.
- Explain how geography impacted the lives of different groups of indigenous people.
- Know the GRAPES of the Aztec, Inca, and Mayans.
- Identify the routes of early European explorers.
- Explain the motives for European Exploration.
- Explain how European conquest impacted the Americas.
- Explain what the Columbian Exchange was.