Answer: Conquest,Greed and Racism
Explanation: The colonisation of the Americas was believed to have started in 1492 when Christopher Columbus an Italian explorer navigated through the Americas to seek for new trade routes, landed in what is called the NEW WORLD which is known as the AMERICAS.
The need to CONQUER,GREED and RACISM made European countries like Spain, England,France etc expand into the AMERICAS.
A during the two centuries following the discovery of the new world, over 90% of the native population were killed by disease and warfare
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although you did not attach the Grading Rubric, we can comment on the following.
The cultural area that I choose to prepare a time capsule is the Mesoamerican Empire of the Aztecs. I have a lot of interest in this fascinating culture.
The characteristics of the culture I choose are the following.
The Aztecs were one of the greatest empires during the Mesoamerica times. They traveled from faraway places to reach the region of the Texcoco Lake, where they founded the capital city of the empire: the great Tenochtitlan (modern-day downtown México City).
The Aztecs spoke a language called "Nahuatl," which still subsist until these days in some regions of central México.
Aztecs were known to be fierce warriors that conquered other lands and enslaved the people. They forced them to pay tribute. Aztecs were polytheists, had many gods such as Tlaloc, the god of rain, or Huitzilopochtli, the god of war.
