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Ethnics Midterm > Pre-columbian Period > Flashcards

Pre-columbian Period Flashcards

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Inca

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  • performed successful skull surgery
  • they have a very advanced road system
  • They had runners get fresh fish from the west coast
  • were also known for making beef jerky
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Olmecs

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  • people from the land of rubber
  • from golf coast of Mexico
  • there most powerful animal was jaguar
  • jaguar was there power and symbol
  • gave us the very first team sport
  • first to consume xocolati (chocolate)
  • the trinity: corn, beans, and squash
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Teotihuacán

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  • teo can be define as god or energy
  • from north of Mexico City
  • very first city in America’s
  • 5th largest city during the apex
  • pyramid of the sun 3rd largest pyramid of the city
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Maya

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  • were all over Mexico and America
  • they were peer astronomy, calculating the moon
  • maya creates the concept
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Aztecs

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  • defeated in 1531
  • factors in the conquest
  • Indian allies
  • superior weaponry
  • the stranger effect: welcome in all the way to your temple
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First civilation merge from America?

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Inca

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7
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First civilation merge from South America?

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Olmecs

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What symbol defines the olmecs

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Colossal heads

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What do colossal beads symbolize

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Royalty

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What are significants of Teotihuacán?

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-first city in America and 5th largest city in the world

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What structure the land

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Pyramid sun

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Where are Maya’s from

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  • Central America

- mayas gave us a calender and mathematics (gave us number 0)

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Factors in the conquest

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  • Diseases

- Indian allies

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Encomienda system

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  • Spaniards:born in Spain, top of church, always in top
  • criollos: Spaniards born in America (here)
  • mestizo:
  • mulattos: Spanish and African (native Americans Indians)
  • Indians:natives
  • Africans:
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Who settled the southwest

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-native Americans
Africans 
Mullatos 
Mestizos 
Criollos
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Syncretism

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Cultural blending through conquest

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Spanish language

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  • Approximately 20% of words are from arab language

- approximately 10% of words from Indian languages

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18
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Día de los muertos

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90% Native American

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19
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What was the system implemented from Spaniards

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Encomienda system

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20
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Which is the first settlement in the city

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Santa Fe

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21
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Which is the first settlemen town in California

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SJ

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Missionization process

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  • presidios: first base built
  • missions: second
  • Pueblo’s: third
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Who was it that settled Florida in the southwest

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-native Americans,, Africans, mullatos, mestizos, criollos

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WhT type of economy was here

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Ranch economy, (Yerba buena ranch)

25
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What year did the Latin America be indipendent

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1830

26
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WhAt is the month associates with independence

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Septiembre

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Why did it begin with it

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French invaded Spain

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Legacy of independence

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  • Dismantling of the caste system

- slavery outlawed

29
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When Texas won the American war what did they take

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Texas

30
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How many Mexicans were living in

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Hundred thousands

31
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What percentage lost there lands

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90%

32
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Another word of Puerto Rico in America is

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Colony

33
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What is the class status of Cuban exiles

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Elites

34
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How many people were deported

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1 millions

-percentage of American citizen 60%

35
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Bracero program

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Second deportation operation wetback

36
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WhT did American G.I forum organize

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To offer support for returning Latino veterans

37
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Young lords

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Puerto tocan nationalist group

38
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Who ate the leader of farm workers

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Dolores huerta and Caesar Chávez

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Chicano movement

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  • more equality

- more women power

40
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Hispanic

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  • word influenced late 1970

- used by the US census 1980

41
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California proposition

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  • 187: 1994 undocumented
  • 209: 1996 action
  • 227: 1998 violations
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Encomienda

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  • they weren’t paid neither brought in the church

- the boss lived at the hacienda

43
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Santa Fe: why did they come up to Texas?

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Why because those mountains up there, the Louisiana are going to get them

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The anza expedition

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  • why did they came up to California? The territories up there are there’s as well, they want no one to beat them to it
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Sj history

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  • the citizens wanted easy access to the Santa Clara church

- mission sj 1797 it was built, it secured in a small area of Spaniards

46
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Why the movement began because the French invaded Spain

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  • they were influenced by the French Revolution

- they emerge with the leaders of indipendence

47
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Legacy of inidpendence

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  • dismantling of the caste system
  • slavery outlawed
  • mission secularized
  • among oldest republics
48
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How were lands lost

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California land law
Mexican American war is over
Gold rush

49
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Displacement

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  • loss of lands: half of Mexicans lost there lands
  • economic disenfranchisement
  • political disenfranchisement: when uS took over no Mexican can vote only criollos
  • unequal law
  • barrioization
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Mass deportation

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By 1930 2 millón of Mexican came

51
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The bracero program

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  • once they got to the American official they were asked to show
    Their hands if they were working hands if not they had to be sent back
52
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Social movements

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  • they are fighting for social justice, nothing higher nor lower
  • type of group action

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