Chapters 1 and 2 Flashcards

1
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aztecs, mayans, and incans traveled to the new world by way of

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land bridge

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2
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pueblo indians

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1st american corn growers
adobe houses and pueblos
elaborate irrigation systems

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3
Q

mound builders

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huge ceremonial and burial mounds

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4
Q

largest mound building tribe

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cahokia

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5
Q

eastern woodlands

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3 systems farming
algonquian, Iroquois

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6
Q

iroquois confederation

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leader: hiowatha
5 tribes in NY came together for defensive puposes
matrilineal
Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca

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7
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nai culture

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tribe owned the land
nature mixed with spirits
nature was sacred
little interest in money

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8
Q

europeans enter africa

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slave trade begins
went to sugar plantations

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9
Q

columbous comes to the new world

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funded by isabella and ferdinand
created: africa would provide the labor and europe would provide market

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10
Q

1494: portugual got west of the line (brazil)
spain got east (rest of the nw)

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treaty of tordsillas

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11
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nai were given to spanish landlords for labor and conversion to Christianity

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encomienda system

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12
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spulveda

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renaissance man who thought indians were born to be slaves

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13
Q

de las casas

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priest who thought indians were not savages but needed to be converted

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14
Q

hernando cortez

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conquered the aztecs

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15
Q

mestizos

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new race mix of nai and spanish

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16
Q

black legend

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the spanish only brought pain and bad things to the americas (true, but they also brought good things too)

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17
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mississipian/se

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mound builders
maize cultivation
cahokia

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18
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southwest

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corn
anasazi, pueblo, hohokam

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19
Q

canals for crops
adobe buildings
gradual decline and dispersal

A

hohokam

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20
Q

great plains

A

hunting
nomads
sioux

21
Q

spain

22
Q

france

A

fur trade
wealth
intermarriage

23
Q

dutch

A

wealth and trade
joint-stock companies
intermarriage

24
Q

england

A

permanent settlements
salutary neglect
charters and joint-stock companies
hostile and racist
last to colonize

25
columbain exchange
exchange of plants, animals, disease, and ideas b/w nw and ow
26
ow to nw
disease, livestock, olives
27
nw to ow
corn, potatoes, syphilis
28
jamestown
1607 looking for wealth
29
jamestown problems
lack of supplies poor discipline indian attacks poor profits "starving winter"
30
john smith
"work or dont eat"
31
pocahontas
food and representation
32
john rolfe
tobacco
33
tobacco
cash-crop economy destoyed the soil increased profits slavery
34
virginia
chesapeake colony tobacco plantation systems
35
women in jamestown
sense of permanence 5:1 ratio family influence
36
house of burgesses
1st rep gov in colonies democratic
37
powahatan people
fought w/ english end of 1st war: marriage b/w rolfe and pocahontas 2nd war: nai were driven away
38
maryland
catholic safe haven chesapeake colony tobacco lord baltimore
39
act of toleration
made it so all christians could live peacefully in maryland death for any other religion
40
sugar
rich man crop grown in the carribean
41
barbados slave code
slaves had basically no rights
42
carolinas
ties with carribeam charleston was the busiest seaport rice and indigo religious tolerance (bc it was not important to them)
43
georgia
only colony founded by england last colony buffer and debtors colony no slavery for a short period of time religious tolerace for protestants
44
primogeniture
first born son inherits all
45
starving winter
60 out of 400 survived wonter of 1609-1610
46
nai new world
horses disease forced migration firearms more nai on nai violence
47
west indies
sugar
48
north carolina
started as the poor and religious dissenters most democratic colony
49
tuscarora war
crushed the indians in north carolina