AR History Chapt. 6 Flashcards
A surge of creativity in Europe resulting in artistic, scientific, and literary achievement brought on in part by rediscovery of Greek and Roman cultures and accomplishments. It began around 1400 in Italy and continued through the Elizabethan era of the early 1600s in England.
Renaissance
The buying, selling, or bartering of goods for profit or benefit.
Trade
Lands and islands of southeastern Asia including India, Indochina, also called the East Indies.
Indies
Rude, unmannerly, brutal, uncivilized persons.
Savages
A Native American chief who ruled over an area in northeast Arkansas in the 1500s.
Casqul
A huge tangle of logs, mud, and brush that accumulated over the centuries in the Red River that greatly impeded travel until its removal in the mid-nineteenth century.
Great Red River Raft
Primitive, basic, uncultivated, simplicity; not sophisticated
Crude
Something passed down by an ancestor or someone or something from the past; the remembrance or impact left by a person, place, thing, or event.
Legacy
An Indian pipe made of stone and signifying peaceful intentions.
Calumet
The french name given to lands claimed by La Salle, chosen in honor of King Louis XIV.
Louisiana
Pictorial symbols forming a design that represents an individual or family, usually royalty. They are generally displayed on a shield or embroidered onto a flag or piece of clothing.
Coat of arms
The first and most important European establishment in Arkansas. From 1686 to 1821, it served as the local governmental, military, and trade headquarters for the French, the Spanish, and finally the United States.
Arkansas Post
A Scottish inventor and land speculator who convinced the King of France that he could sell and develop parts of New France (Louisiana) to French settlers. He advertised Arkansas Post and falsely claimed it had a great deal of gold to be mined. He then went bankrupt and abandoned the settlers. The colony failed.
John Law
The point where two or more streams or rivers join and flow together.
Confluence
A roofed passage similar to a breezeway; especially one connecting two parts of a cabin.
Dogtrot