Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards
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
cortez
sailed for Spain italian blood landed first time in bahamas next year went to Hispaniola sugar important
Christopher Columbus
quest of fabled golden cities
Went through Arizona and New Mexico, as far as Kansas
found Grand Canyon and lots of buffalo
Francisco coronado
spirit of optimism and adventure printing press 1450 spread scientific knowledge and lots of other knowledge :P compass (arabs) help sea travel
renaissance
cortez intermarried with surviving indians, creating this culture
people of mixed indian and european heritage
mestizos
spain divided with portugal the lands of the New World
Most went to Spain, but Portugal received Africa and Asia and Brazil
Treat of Tordesillas (1494)
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
Three Sister Farming
of Ohio River valley, mississippian culture Mid west, desert Anasazi people SW
had large settlements after start corn planting
mysteriously declined
Mound Builders
“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
Iroquois Confederacy
idk
Christian Crusaders
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
encomienda
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
st. augustine, Florida
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
Spanish Armada
story that Spanish unleashed an immense cruelty to the Indians
partially true
Black Legend
Spanish Explorers
Conquistadores