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Primary source

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Historical source from someone living during time period/event documenting that time period/event

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Secondary source

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Source that analyzes and interprets primary source(s)

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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Rulers of Spain in late 1400s-early 1500s, spearhead reconquista and inquisition, fund Columbus’ trip to Americas

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Reconquista

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Reconquest- Ferdinand and Isabella take territory from Moors (Granada last to fall) and unite loose kingdoms into Spain

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Atlantic world

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“New World”, Latin America

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Atlantic creoles

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People with higher contact with Iberians

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Kingdom of Kongo

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In west central Africa, dominated broad region w/many linguistically related Bantu groups, relied on agriculture and metallurgical sector

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Convivencia

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Coexistence, in context of Christians living with Muslims and Jewish people

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Feitoria

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Portuguese forts

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Transatlantic slave trade

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Europeans enslaved African people and transferred them to americas to do labor

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Popul Vuh

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Film/creation myth of the k’iche’ maya

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Maya

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Indigenous group in Mesoamérica, sedentary, around Yucatán peninsula

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Mexica (Aztec)

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Occupied central Mexico, centered in Tenochtitlán, empire

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Inca

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Located in South America (Andes mountains), huge empire

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Taíno

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Indigenous people in Caribbean

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Tupinamba

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Indigenous group living on coast of Brazil

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Nuremberg chronicles

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Documents history of man, maps inhabited world

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Aztec calendar stone

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Calendar divided into several ages that describes history and future

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Quipu

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Inca method of documenting information, ropes with knots

20
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Vertical archipelago

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Refers to life in Andes mountains, different elevations treated as “islands”

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Mit’a labor

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Labor tax levied by inca for specific state projects

22
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Treaty of tordesillas

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1494- moved pope’s line 1000 leagues west, confirming Portugal’s right to territory in Africa and route to India

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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala

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Native Andean educated by missionaries that became interpreter for Spanish and Quechua speakers

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What were the most important characteristics of 15th century Iberian society?

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Social, economic, legal inequalities
Conquest mentality
Catholic Church dominates
Concerned w/women’s sexual purity

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What roles did the Catholic Church play in 15th century Iberian society?

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Influences crown
Education
Moral/ethical authority
Religious authority

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What were the most important characteristics of 15th century west Africa and west central Africa?

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Slave trade and wealth from it
Military power
Changing religious practices

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What types of interactions characterized relations between Iberians and west Africans in 15th century?

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Business interactions
Enslavement
Diplomatic missions

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Which modern country in the Americas was the destination for the most enslaved Africans?

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Brazil

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What texts did Europeans see as sources of authority for understanding the world outside their communities? How did that shape their perceptions?

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Nuremberg chronicles
Margarita
These types of documents started with creation and went they human history, focus on Europeans with racist descriptions of other people, creates idea of the other as non human

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What sources of evidence do historians have for pre-contact history in America’s?

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Tech like roads, stone artifacts, pottery, clothing

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What is material culture? Give example from class to illustrate how it can be used to understand power dynamics

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Items we buy influence our shared rituals and identity (and vice versa)

Tortillas- corn easy to grow but grinding it into tortillas (done by women) takes a long time and is hard labor, men don’t do it so women lose time but gives them power over food production

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What key regional differences do you see in new world peoples and cultures before 1492?

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Andean societies have to deal with mountains while mesoamericana moreso deal with desert land and dry conditions

These differences lead to differences in agricultural

33
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What K’iche’ Maya community are depicted in popol vuh?

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Continuing legacy
Learning from history
Importance of family/community
Importance of nature

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What were the most important characteristics of 15th century Mexica culture?

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Complex organization and training of military
Use of history to legitimize power
Religion
Warfare as economic/political tool

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In what ways was mesoamerican life shaped by local environment?

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Determined what they could grow, determined labor division, informed building materials, determined if society was sedentary or semi sedentary

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In what ways was Incan life shaped by local environment?

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Mountains created system where people brought food up, used llama and alpaca for clothes to stay warm, terrace farming

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How did regional geography shape pattens of life in pre-1492 Brazil and Caribbean?

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Led to combined hunting and farming, cassava big source of calories,

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What characterized indigenous Caribbean peoples in 1500? What kinds of evidence are available to better understand their histories?

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Looser political organization, several diff linguistic groups,, defense based on ranged attacks and ambush

Material remains like pottery remain, animal bones, ornaments and beads, cooking vessels

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What forms of tech did in a use in consolidating their empire?

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Roads, mail system/couriers, quipus

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What tech did inca and Maya societies use to record their histories?

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Quipus, maize, pebbles, written documents

41
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What is a quipu and what insights do modern historians think they give into Inca history?

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Knotted cords

Give us insights into record keeping, economics, labor organization,

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