midterm Flashcards
primary source
Diary, Newspaper, Letter.Any item directly created by someone in the past, relied on written primary sources. Abigail Adam’s Letter, The Gettysburg address, but doesnt have to be a written item
secondary source
The stories that historians create using primary sources, book article, film. created after the events of the past occurred by people who did not experience them. Our textbook=ex
the atlantic world
4 continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean and interaction of people in this region, refers to the exchange of goods, ideas, and people between Europe, Africa, and America. It demonstrates the cultural diversity of early America.
cherokee creation story
After a flood, animals sent out a buzzard to see if it was dry enough, he became tired and his wings struck the ground and created land and the animals began coming down, and there were only brothers and sisters humans, until he struck her with a fish and and every 7 days she had a child and then it was told she could only have one child a year.
berinigia
Marsh land that Served as a land bridge/connection between Asia and the Americas- allowing mammoths and its hunter-gatherer followers to migrate into North America, becoming first people to settle on a new continent-siberian land bridge
agricultural revolution
Transformation of Nomadic hunter gather societies into settled agricultural communities, allowed native Americans to establish permanent villages and grow in population.
aztec
Aggressive and Warlike people, who dominated other groups in their area through force
tenochitilan
Aztecs capital built on an island, boasting 250,000
anasazi
People of present day NM and CO built well constructed roads up to 40 ft wide connecting towns and villages
chaco canyon
Center of Anasazi, in modern day NM, center of elaborate network of trade and exchange with 15000 people, with thriving water irrigation systems
mississippian
mound building culture who developed in Mississippi river valley
