Textbook Vocab

Question 1

Liberalism

Answer 1

limited government and economic laissez-faire ; does NOT REFER to the special ocnern for the welfare of disadvantaged people

Question 2

Nationalism

Answer 2

the idea that everyone ought to be part of a nation, and nation rules themselves

Question 3

Encounter (1492-1600)

Answer 3

era where Christopher Columbus and other explorers discovered the Americas ; era prior to the colonial period

Question 4

Cabeza de Vaca

Answer 4

early Spanish explorer who described Texas and northern mexican people as nonsedentary ppl

Question 5

Pampas

Answer 5

nonsedentary plains-dwelling people of Argentia who were eventually wiped out. Eurpoeans took their place on the land

Question 6

• sedentary
• semisedentary
• nonsedentary

Answer 6

• permanent settlement with cumplex agriculture
• “forest dwellers” hunting important but also depended on agriculture
• adaptation to food-scarce environments, hunters/gatheres

Question 7

Tupi, Tupinamba

Answer 7

semisedentary people of the Brazilian rainforests. They were destroyed and their labor replaced by African slaves whom the Portugues brought to grow sugarcane

Question 8

Inca Empire

Answer 8

indigenous empire of Peru, spoke Quechua, drew a long history of previous cultural evolution in the Andes

Question 9

Aztec Empire

Question 10

Tenochtitlan

Question 11

Mayas

Question 12

Iberia, Iberians

Question 13

Reconquista, Reconquest of Iberia

Question 14

Isabel of Castile

Question 15

Hernan Cortes

Question 16

Monctezuma

Question 17

Francisco Pizarro

Question 18

encomienda

Question 19

Bartolome de las Casas