Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards

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went to mexico
	found spanish mayan speaking guy
	found girl that spoke mayan and nahuatl(aztec)
went to vera cruz
	indian allies took down aztec
montezuma greeted him...
teotihuacan marvelous, complex society
small pox
Mexico City replaced teotihuacan 
in the valley of mexico
Name of Guy
	he was spanish
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cortez

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sailed for Spain
italian blood
landed first time in bahamas
next year went to Hispaniola
sugar important
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Christopher Columbus

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quest of fabled golden cities
Went through Arizona and New Mexico, as far as Kansas
found Grand Canyon and lots of buffalo

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Francisco coronado

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spirit of optimism and adventure
printing press 1450
	spread scientific knowledge
	and lots of other knowledge :P
compass (arabs) help sea travel
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renaissance

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cortez intermarried with surviving indians, creating this culture
people of mixed indian and european heritage

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mestizos

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spain divided with portugal the lands of the New World

Most went to Spain, but Portugal received Africa and Asia and Brazil

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Treat of Tordesillas (1494)

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maize, beans, squash reached SE Atlantic
	these plants made \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_possible
beans growing on trellis of cornstalks and squash covering the planting mounds to retain moisture in the soil
helped increase population
Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee people
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Three Sister Farming

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of Ohio River valley, mississippian culture Mid west, desert Anasazi people SW
had large settlements after start corn planting
mysteriously declined

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Mound Builders

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“Great League of Peace”
Indians teamed up
developed political and organize skills to keep military alliance that frightened enemies
for territorial supremacy
struggled from disease
allied with English sometimes, French other times
moved to British Canada

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Iroquois Confederacy

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idk

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Christian Crusaders

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allowed govt to give indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to try to christianize them
basically slavery
bartolome de las casas didn’t like it

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encomienda

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to block French ambitions and to protect the sea-lanes to the caribbean, the spanish erected a fortress at __________
to secure northern periphery of their new world domain against other countries
to convert indians to christianity

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st. augustine, Florida

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Philip II of Spain made this for invading England
he had a lot of money
Battle at English Channel
“protestant wind” defeated Philip II
Spain’s defeat helped Spanish decline and help English navy dominate

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Spanish Armada

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story that Spanish unleashed an immense cruelty to the Indians
partially true

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Black Legend

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Spanish Explorers

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Conquistadores

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conquered by Cortez
capital Teotihuacan
complex society
Mexico City
Moctezuma was leader
had lots of other indian haters
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aztecs

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Indian uprising in 1680
Pueblo rebels destroyed every Catholic Church in New Mexico
Indians rebuilt kivas–their own places of worship
spanish reclaimed it again, but they were more tolerant of the indians after that

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Pope’s Rebellion

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corn planting
rio grande valley
irrigations systems to water corn
living in villages; multi storied, terraced buildings when Spanish made contact
not complex
Pope's Rebellion
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Pueblo Indians

pueblo- “village”