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What is the definition of toleration

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This allows religious freedom

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What is the definition of history?

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The study of the recordith past

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what happened in 1898?

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The USA bought the philliphines

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What is the definition of culture

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a way of life for a group of people

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Civilization is a type of culture based on 3 simple ingredients

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1- has to be citys/urbanization
2- has to have literacy
3- has to have specilization of labor

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How many languages were present at the time of columbus

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2000

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What does the current evidence of day say about how long people have lived in the americas?

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40,000 years and constantly changing

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The people came to the americas through the

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The Straight of Beringia

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what was the population of the native people by the time of columbus

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54 million

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What was the name of the group of people who came to the americas by sea?

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euro-paleo people

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what was the culture of the paleo people

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hunting and gathering

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What is essentially meso-america?

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central america

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Which group discovered farming?

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Aztecs

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People was specific to what skills they had but would share there food and clothes

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specilized labor

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This is a sphere throwing tool that allows more people to hunt regardelss of strength

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the atlatl

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This was a easy way to make pottery and allowed efficent farming

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Coiled Pottery

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This is a cave that is located in Jackson Country that was created 8 to 9 thousands years ago

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Russell Cave

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where did Neanderthals start from

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Neanderthal valley of germany

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is a common name that has been used to describe the first early modern humans of the European Upper Paleolithic.

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Cro-Magnum

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the oldest cro-magnum person of the ice frozen alp of italy

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Otzi

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Was otzi discovered with all his clothes on and killed

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Yes

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What is one of the oldest tribes east of the mississppi

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Cahokia

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What time was the Cahokia vanished

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1100 AD

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the oldest native american settlement in alabama

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Moundville, Alabama

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the population of moundville was

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around 1000

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what were the five civilized tribes

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Cherokee, Choctaw,Muskogee(creek), Chickasaw, Seminole

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landed in mobile bay in 1100 AD

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Prince Madoc

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Famous person who came from iceland and greenland

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Leif Ericsson

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leif erricson established what settlement and its abbreviation and its location

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Lunse aux meadows also called vinland and located in Canada

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What is the tradition when a viking leader dies?

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They burn the leader in a viking longboat

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What is the largest and coldest lake

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Lake Superior

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What was the only thing that stoped the vikings from getting to lake erie

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The niagra falls

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What was the crusades

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holy war between the christian knights of europe and the christian knights of europe and the muslim knights of the holy land

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what is the regeneration/rebirth of greek and roman culture after the dark ages

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renaissance

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35
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Who is the holy father in rome

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Bishop Constantinople

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36
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When did the roman empire collapse?

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5000 AD

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37
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What age was considered to be a adult in roman era

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21

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as King of England from 1189 to 1199. He was considered a hero in his day and has often been portrayed as one in works of literature.

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Richard The Lionheart

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39
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What is SilkRoad

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The Arabic Trade Route

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Which Merchants transported the english crusaders to meet the muslim merchants

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The Italian Merchants

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41
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Why are Venice and Genoa common

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Both are Seaports and there located in the ocean

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was an Italian merchant traveller from Venice whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde, a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China

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Marco Polo

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43
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What does Marco Polo Expose?

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How the chinese are very rich

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44
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What book does Marco Polo make while in genoa prision

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II Milione

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45
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Why does Genoa and Venice dominate the asian trade

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because they transport crusade warriors

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46
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Why does Genoa and Venice dominate the asian trade

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because they transport crusade warriors

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47
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What do the people of Florence and the knight Templar make?

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checking and banking

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48
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What does banking do?

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Expandes Trade

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49
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What is the Astrolobe?

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this is a tool that tells you where you are north and east

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Why are the portugese the leaders in exploration and navigation

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because of there position in the atlantic

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Who is Prince Henry the navigator

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he develops a navigation school called cape sarger

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52
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What is the typical ship the portugese use?

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Portugese Bao

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53
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What are the portugese ultimate goal?

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To get to India

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54
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What does Timbuktu deal?

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Salt Ivory gold and slaves

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55
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Who is Prestor John

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legendary christian leader in Africa that supposely controls a kingdom

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What is Ethiopia

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one of the oldest christian civilizations

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57
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Who is Angola Diaz

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He wanted to discover the western passage

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1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea

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Da Gama

59
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How Does Da Gama get to western India

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goes around south africa to western india called goa

60
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What were Columbuses first ships

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NIna, Pinta, Santa Maria

61
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What was Columbuses first voyage

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he landes in san salvador, bahama in 1492, october 12

62
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How many voyages does columbus make?

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He makes 4 voyages

63
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he was a italian from florence he wil make a famous map

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Vespucci

64
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Who create the Waldseemüller map

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Vespucci

65
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stated that everything to the east would go to portugal and everything to the west would go to spain

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Treaty of Tordessiles

66
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what were somethings that went from the new world to europe

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tobacco, potatoes, etc

67
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What destoryed the crops of the indigenous people

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Hogs

68
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What were the three g’s for the conquistadors

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Gold

Glory

Gospel

69
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was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

70
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first person to chart panama and to notice it was a separate continent

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Balboa

71
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was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth,

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Ferdinand Magellan

72
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had a fleet of five ships and his flagship ship was the victoria

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Magellon

73
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The Great Southern Ocean is now the ocean we call

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The Atlantic Ocean

74
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Who discovers the philliphines

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Megellon

75
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he was involved as a warrior against the Moroccan and a conquestidor and was given the govenor psition of porto rico and goes on a expedition to st.augustine

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Deleon

76
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What was Juan Ponce de León also looking for

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The Fountain of Youth

77
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he went on the Colorado route to look for gold

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Francisco Fernando

78
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great conquestidor promoted by the govoner by panama, coming with nothing and leaving with half a million dollars

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Hernando Desoto

79
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What was the beginning date and ending date of desotos expedition

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1539 to 1541

80
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Explain Desotos expedition

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started in tampa, moves up to the carolines then he goes to the northwest

81
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was a paramount chief of a Mississippian chiefdom in what is now the U.S. state of Alabama. His people were possibly ancestors to the several southern Native American confederacies who later emerged in the region.

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Chief Tuskaloosa

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What does Chief Tuskaloosa do when he sees desoto

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sends out diplomats to greet the desoto groups

83
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What is Maubia, Alabama and when was it established

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1540 and the capital of the natives

84
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What is the battle of maubila

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oct 18 1540, they narrowly chief tuskaloosa nearly defeats the spainards, desoto is inured and escapes

85
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What will the desoto expedition chart

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chart and discover the lower mississippi valley

86
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noble, educated, a sergant in a peru expedition, uses the gold to go on another expedition of the west coast

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Pizzaro

87
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When did the inca empire start and end

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1463-1532

88
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why do we call the inca empire the inca empire

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because of a river named inca

89
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he is another noble man but poor, will start a unauthoerised expedition against mexico, comes with 11 ships comes to the coast of yucaton goes inaldna nd meets the yucaton who are the descendents of the mayans he then burns his 11 ships

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Cortez

90
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Magneficant aztec capital and say it is far superior to other cities

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Teotihuacan

91
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Who is the emperor of the aztecs

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Montezuma II

92
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What did the aztecs think of the spainarda

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that they were gods

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A
94
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cortez asks for what that leads to a war between the spainards and the aztecs

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they demand gold

95
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When cortez beats montezuma what does he find that makes him rich

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Gold and Silver

96
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when were and who created the university of mexio and university of lima

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established in 1551 by john cabbot

97
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he oldest city founded by Deleon in 1565

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St.Augustine, Florida

98
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What is Santa Fe, New Mexico?

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trading outpost between indegenous and spainards

99
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Who are the peninsulares

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native born spainards are the absolute rule and controlling law in the america

100
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who are the creoles

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first born american of spanish theyw ill control the local government and inherit property

101
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what is mestizo

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mixed of indegious and spainards theyw ill own shops, small farm

102
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indegious

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may or may not be free were not involved in the governement

103
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Who was Alonzo de Pienda

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was a Spanish explorer and cartographer, whose map marks the first document in Texas history. He was born in the ghetto part of Spain. boile bay, 1519, 40 villages upriver

104
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what does King Henry establish himself as?

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head of church

105
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How many times in Henry Married?

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20 times

106
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who is elizabeth 1 descendent of?

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henry 8th and henry 7th

107
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what is queen elizabeths last name?

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Tudor

108
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basically pirates secretly funded by the crown and secretly pay queen elizabeth.Would attack spanish ships

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Sea Dogs

109
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Why were they called sea dogs

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small but fast ships and sailed in groups

110
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was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. The strategic aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Tudor establishment of Protestantism in England, with the expectation that this would put a stop to English interference in the Spanish Netherlands and to the harm caused to Spanish interests by English and Dutch privateering.

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Spanish Armada

111
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When was the spanish armada defeated?

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1588

112
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what did the defeat allow?

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english settlement in North America

113
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What does Sir Francis Do (involved spanish armada)

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takes a small fleet and attacks the spanish fleet

114
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Who are the black irish

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are the spainards who could not get backk to spain interrupted with irish

115
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What is the enclosure movement?

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it causes rural unemployed sending farmers who can not get employed to the citys to be homeless

116
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a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.

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Dutch made this idea copied by the british Joint Stock Company

117
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established a settlement in find a northwest passage established jamestwon in 1607

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london company

118
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town in virginia in 1607gets to trade with indians becomes hostile and gets attacked

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JamesTown

119
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What is a bondsman

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indentured servant

120
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Professional soldier to train the settlers, gets captured by the locals rescued by pcahontas provides a truth between the settlers and native americans takes over military rule his famous phrase is “he who shall not work, shall not eat”

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Captian John Smith

121
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What does John Rolfe Create?

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a tasty tobacco in Virginia he will also marry pocahontas

122
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What happens in 1619

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The first african americans are sent to Jamestown regarded as english indentured servants, english slave companies are created

123
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was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.[1] The House was established by the Virginia Company, who created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants.[2] Its first meeting was held in Jamestown, Virginia, on July 30, 1619.[3]

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House of burgesses

124
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What is the act of toleration?

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allows religious freedom

125
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In 1640 what major event happended and over what? Explains what happens and which party wins

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A civil war broke oout over the power of the parliment and the king, the parliment wins and cromwell gets rid of a monarchy and sets up a republic.

126
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Who is Oliver Cromwell?

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A military ruler who takes control of england and abolshies the monarchy for a short while

127
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When the monarchy is restored who do they call to be the king?

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Charles II son of Charles I

128
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He was a priest comes with the idea that salvation can be achied through crist and not by the catholic church priests and bishops, defies the church tax requirements

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Martin Luther

129
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Was a cathlic priest, he comes up with the idea of predetermination, that it was to predetermine who would go to hell or heaven, becomes popular with buisness people

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John Calvin/Calviniost

130
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What are the the calvanist in england called?

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The puritans

131
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Calvanist in France were called

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Huguenots

132
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Where did many puritans escape too? And what was the problem they faced

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Many escaped to Holland, faced a crises of unemployment

133
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In 1620 what colony is established

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Plymouth

134
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was the ship that transported mostly English Puritans and Separatists, collectively known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth England to the New World

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Mayflower

135
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In 1712 what will the royal crown do the the colonies?

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make north and south carolinas

136
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What was South Carolina established to do?

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Protect North Carolina

137
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What was Georgia named after?

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George III

138
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was a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain’s poor, especially those in debtors’ prisons, in the New World.[1]

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General Olglethrope

139
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Why was Savannah Georgia so significant

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first organized city

140
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What was the original idea of Georgia?

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No slavery allowed

141
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an Anglican divine[2] and theologian who, with his brother —–and fellow cleric George Whitefield, is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement known asMethodism.

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John Wesley and Charles Wesley

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