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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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pueblo indians

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

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3
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mound builders

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huge ceremonial and burial mounds

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4
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largest mound building tribe

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cahokia

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5
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eastern woodlands

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3 systems farming
algonquian, Iroquois

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6
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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
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europeans enter africa

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slave trade begins
went to sugar plantations

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9
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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
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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
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de las casas

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

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14
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hernando cortez

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conquered the aztecs

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15
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mestizos

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new race mix of nai and spanish

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16
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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
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canals for crops
adobe buildings
gradual decline and dispersal

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hohokam

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20
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great plains

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hunting
nomads
sioux

21
Q

spain

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3 Gs

22
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france

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fur trade
wealth
intermarriage

23
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dutch

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wealth and trade
joint-stock companies
intermarriage

24
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england

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

25
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columbain exchange

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exchange of plants, animals, disease, and ideas b/w nw and ow

26
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ow to nw

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disease, livestock, olives

27
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nw to ow

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corn, potatoes, syphilis

28
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jamestown

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1607
looking for wealth

29
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jamestown problems

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lack of supplies
poor discipline
indian attacks
poor profits
“starving winter”

30
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john smith

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“work or dont eat”

31
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pocahontas

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food and representation

32
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john rolfe

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tobacco

33
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tobacco

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cash-crop economy
destoyed the soil
increased profits
slavery

34
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virginia

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chesapeake colony
tobacco
plantation systems

35
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women in jamestown

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sense of permanence
5:1 ratio
family influence

36
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house of burgesses

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1st rep gov in colonies
democratic

37
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powahatan people

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fought w/ english
end of 1st war: marriage b/w rolfe and pocahontas
2nd war: nai were driven away

38
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maryland

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catholic safe haven
chesapeake colony
tobacco
lord baltimore

39
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act of toleration

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made it so all christians could live peacefully in maryland
death for any other religion

40
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sugar

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rich man crop
grown in the carribean

41
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barbados slave code

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slaves had basically no rights

42
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carolinas

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ties with carribeam
charleston was the busiest seaport
rice and indigo
religious tolerance (bc it was not important to them)

43
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georgia

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only colony founded by england
last colony
buffer and debtors colony
no slavery for a short period of time
religious tolerace for protestants

44
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primogeniture

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first born son inherits all

45
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starving winter

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60 out of 400 survived
wonter of 1609-1610

46
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nai new world

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horses
disease
forced migration
firearms
more nai on nai violence

47
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west indies

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sugar

48
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north carolina

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started as the poor and religious dissenters
most democratic colony

49
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tuscarora war

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crushed the indians in north carolina

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