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Année de migration des premiers humains qui suivent les grands mammifères depuis la Sibérie

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  • 15 000
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Quelle proportion des grands mammifères sont éteint en - 8 000 suite au peuplement humain et à la surchasse?

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2/3

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Three sisters?

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Corn, beans and squash

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Comment s’appelait la grande cité amérindienne située près de St-Louis et dont l’apogée fut vers l’an 1000?

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Cahokia

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À combien estime-t-on la population américaine avant 1492?

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60 millions à 90 millions

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What indigenous nation lived in the Chesepeake bay region circa 1600?

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Powhatan

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Quelle expression de Shakespeare, employée dans The Tempest, décrit l’Angleterre au moment de la colonisation américaine?

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Vex’d and troubled

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En Angleterre au début du 17e, comment est distribuée la propriété de la terre?

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4% des familles possèdent 90% des terres arables

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Quel pourcentage des exportations anglaises représentent la laine, la soie et le tissu en 1600?

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87%

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Combien d’hommes composent l’expédition de fondation de Jamestown et combien survivront le premier hiver?

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104 hommes

37 survivent

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Année de l’union des couronnes d’Écosse et d’Angleterre et début du règne de James 1er

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1603

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En quelle année ont lieu les attaques des Powhatan sur la colonie de Jamestown?

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1622-23 (400 morts sur 3000 habitants)

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À quelle année remonte la première loi américaine limitant les droits des afro-descendants

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1623, statutes on Bermuda

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Puritan sacred text apart from the Bible

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Book of Martyrs

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From which region of England do the Puritans originate^

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East Anglia (Norwich)

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4 fondements idéologiques du puritanisme

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God’s Sovereignty
Inscrutable Election
Original Sin
Limited Atonement

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Who was the powerful but moderate Puritan in Parliament at this time?

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Lord Warwick

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En quelle année fut écrit le premier code esclavagiste mentionnant la race en Amérique?

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1661, en Barbade

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Quel principe légal fait que le statut d’un enfant est déterminé par sa mère? Mère esclave = enfant esclave. Déresponsabilise financièrement les hommes qui violent des esclaves

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Partus sequitur ventrem

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Comment s’appelle le premier héros national de Barbade, un esclave révolutionnaire en 1815?

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Bussa

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Metacom’s war - when and where?

King Philip’s War

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1675-76

New England

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Bacon’s rebellion - when and where?

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1675-76

Virginia

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Powhatan war - when and where?

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1622 and 1644

Virginia

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Pequot war - when and where?

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1636-37

New England

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Kieft's War - when and where?
1643-1645 | New Netherlands
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Anglo-Dutch wars
1672-74 | New Netherlands
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Quelle femme écrivit un très populaire récit de captivité après les événements de la King Philip's War?
Mary Rowlandson (Sovereignty and Goodness of God)
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3 raisons pour les vagues de violence entre Blancs et Autochtones ca. 1675
1. Misunderstanding about the nature of possession between Natives and Settlers: Exclusive Possession vs Usufruct Rights 2. The idea that one indigenous person could sell some land and it be respected by every other Indian (exclusive seller rights) 3. European livestock is very invasive in the land, the fields of the Natives. They might kill a pig or two and then there's retribution.
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In what decade does Virginia switch to black slavery?
1680s
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Combien de prisonniers de la guerre civile anglaises sont «barbadés», devenant des serviteurs dans la colonie antillaise?
8000
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When did William Penn sign a treaty with the Lenape Indians?
1683
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On assiste à l'ethnogénèse de quelle nation autochtone au milieu des années 1700?
Les Creeks | Dans la foulée du commerce des fourrures et des cuirs
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Name of the representative assembly of Virginia
House of Burgesses
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Année des procès des sorcières de Salem
1692
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Livre de Kramer sur les sorcières
Maleus Maleficarum
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How many people were excuted for witchcraft between 1450-1650 in Europe? Of those, what percentage were women?
50 000 dead (low estimate)< | 80% women
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Two "rational" explanations for the quavering of the young girls in Salem
Trauma from seeing their families killed by Indians | Hallucinations caused by mold on the bread
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Name of Salem's reverand
Samuel Parris
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What court was established as to bypass english common law and allow the use of "spectral evidence"?
Oyer and terminer
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How many were killed in the Salem Witch Trials?
``` 19 hanged (dont 4 hommes) 1 man crushed by stones ```
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Règne de Anne Stuart
1702-1714
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Année de la révolution jacobite des Tories contre George Havoverian?
1717
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How many farms in 1750?
300 000 | population of 2 millions
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From which decade are the mainland colonies self-sufficient in labour, meaning they don't need to import more slaves?
1720s | much later in Barbados
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Ca. 1750, which 3 american cities are the largest?
Boston, Philadelphia and New York (pop 20 000)
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What explains that slave-keeping is limited to the colonies below Pennsylvania?
The 180-days-freeze-free zone is there, which allows production of tobacco and rice, the only plantations large enough to justify slavery
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What 3 colleges are associated with the "New Lights", th Great Awakening?
Darthmouth College of Rhode Island (Brown) College of New Jersey (Princeton)
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What famous Jonhatan Edwards sermon is associated with the Great Awakening?
"Sinners at the Hand of God"
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What percentage of Virginia and South Carolina population was enslaved in 1750?
Virginia: 40% SC: 60%
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Comment la population de la BNA était répartie en 1750?
90% lived within 50 miles of the coast
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Who was Prime Minister of Britain during the Seven Years War?
William Pitt the Elder
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3 previous instances of imperial protest in BNA
1. Barbados vs taxation 1640s 2. Boston residents vs Anglican church 1690s 3. Virginia Assembly vs Debt collectors 1750s
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Boston had more inequality (among whites let's say) than other parts of the country. What was the Top Decile wealth holding?
75%
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Year of the Currency Act
1764
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Year of the Hutchinson house protest
1765
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year of the boston riot massacre
(march) 70
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How many pounds of tea are destroyed in the 1773 Boston Tea Party?
20 000
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Governor of North Carolina in 1770
Tryon
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Sensitive part of Boston in the 1760s
the «neck»
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Nom de l'aristocrate tuée par le demi-roi durant le siège de Washington?
Le Villers
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Type de moustique porteur de la malaria?
Anopheles

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