Chapter 1 - Worlds Apart Flashcards
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Culture areas
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• Geographical region defining a pattern of similar subsistence and social organization.
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Aztecs
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- A warrior people.
- Dominated Valley of Mexico.
- 1100-
- 1519-21 Hernán Cortés and his Spanish soldiers conquered them.
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Cahokia
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- City.
- Located ~St. Louis.
- Inhabited by Mississippian peoples.
- Maybe 30,000 pop in 1250.
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Great League of Peace and Power
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- Confederation of Iroquois nations.
- Formed in the 15th century.
- Purpose was to diminish internal conflicts.
- Its 5 constituent nations: Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas.
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Songhai Empire
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- West African state.
- Flourished between 1450-1591
- Fell in 1591 when Moroccans invaded.
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reconquista
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- Conflict where Spanish Christians sought to reconquer the Iberian peninsula from Muslims.
- Ended in 1492.
- Muslims originally invaded in the 8th century.
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Reformation
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- Religious movement seeking to reform the Catholic Church.
- Started when Martin Luther produced an elaborate critique of the Catholics.
- Led to the founding of Protestant Christian religious groups.
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Protestants
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• European Christians who supported reform of the Catholic church based on Martin Luther’s critique.
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predestination
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- Christian belief.
* Claims that God decided during Creation which humans would achieve salvation.
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Columbian Exchange
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• Transatlantic exchange of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred after the first European contact with the Americas.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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- Spain-Portugal Treaty.
- In 1494.
- Negotiated by the pope.
- Purpose was to resolve territorial claim disputes between Spain and Portugal.
- Drew north-south line approx. 1100 mi west of the Cape Verde Islands.
- Spain gets lands west of line and Portugal east.
- Portugal’s New World empire was restricted to Brazil.
- Portugal’s claims in Africa and Asia remained valid.
