Chapter 1 vocab Flashcards

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Who are the Maya

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People who created a civilization in Guatemala and the Yukatan Peninsula about 250 to 900 ad

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Who are the Olmec

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People who created of civilization on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico around 1200 BC

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Who are the Aztec

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People who build an empire in Mexico beginning in the 1200s

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Who are the Inca

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People who build an empire along the west coast of South America beginning in the 1400s

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Who are the Hohokam

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Native Americans who lived in the southwest from about 300 BC to 1300 A.D.

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Who are the Anasazi?

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Native Americans who lived in the south west for about ad 300 to 1300

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Who are the Adena and Hopewell

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Mound building people who lived in the Ohio River Valley

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Who are the Mississippians?

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Mound building people who lived in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys

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Who are the Kashya Pomo?

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native American group that lives in what is now California

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Who is Kwakiutl?

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Native American group that lived in the north west coast

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Who is the pueblo

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Native American group in the southwest

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Who is the Iroquois

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Native American group in the eastern North America

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Kinship

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The ties between members of the family

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Division of labor

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The assignment of different jobs to different individuals

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Islam

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Religion founded by the prophet Mohammed in 1600s

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Plantation

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A huge farm on which sleeves or other workers grow a single crop

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Songhi

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Large African kingdom known for treating

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Savanna

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A grassy dryland with trees and bushes

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Benin

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African kingdom around the Nigeria river known for metalworking

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Kongo

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Small kingdoms on the lower Congo River united under one ruler

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Lineage

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Dissent from common ancestor

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Renaissance

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When Europeans began investigating all aspects of the physical world

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Hierarchy

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Social ordering by rank or class

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Nuclear family

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Household made up of a mother a father and the children immediate family

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Crusades

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Series of wars started by Europeans to win back the holy land from the Muslims

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Reformation

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Split in the Christian church that led to protestantisum

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Prince Henry

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Portuguese princess who started school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration

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Christopher Columbus

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Italian explorer who sailed to North America for Spain

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Taino

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Native Americans who lived where Columbus first landed

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Colonization

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Establishment of outlying settlements that are controlled by a parent country making an area yours

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Columbian exchange

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Early trade across the Atlantic ocean to Africa Asia and Europe introduced new crops and slaves

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Treaty of Tordedillas

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Agreement between Spain and Portugal to divide Western Hemisphere of America into two and 1494 could start colonies Portugal could have Lance to the east Spain had west