Three Worlds Meet - Chapter 1 Flashcards
To understand native cultures of North America, Africa, and Europe, and the European drive to explore and colonize overseas.
Early trade across the Atlantic Ocean
Columbian Exchange
Split in the Christian Church that led to Protestantism
Reformation
People who built an empire along the west coast of South America, beginning in the 1400s
Inca
Descent from a common ancestor
Lineage
Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration
Prince Henry
People who built an empire in Mexico, beginning in the 1200s
Aztec
The ties between members of a family
Kinship
Italian explorer who sailed to North America for Spain
Christopher Columbus
A dry grassland with trees and bushes
Savanna
Moving one’s home
Nomadic
Period when Europeans began investigating all aspects of the physical world
Renaissance
People who created a civilization along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, beginning around 1200 B.C.
Olmec
The establishment of outlying settlements that are controlled by a parent country
Colonization
A huge farm on which slaves or other workers grow a single crop
Plantation
Native American group that lived on the Northwest coast
Kwakiutl
Agreement between Spain and Portugal to explore different lands
Treaty of Tordesillas
Native American group in Eastern North America
Iroquois
Household made up of a mother and father and their children
Nuclear Family
Series of wars started by Europeans to win back the Holy Land from the Muslims
Crusades
African kingdom around the Niger River known for metalworking
Benin
Large African kingdom known for trading
Songhai
Native Americans who lived where Columbus first landed
Taino
The assignment of different jobs to different individuals
Division of labor
Native American group in the Southwest
Pueblo
Native American group that lived in what is now California
Kashaya Pomo
Social ordering by rank or class
Hierarchy
Religion founded by the prophet Muhammad in the 600s
Islam
Native Americans who lived in the Southwest in the canyon bottoms of the Four Corner region from about A.D. 300 to 1300
Anasazi
Mound-building people who lived in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys
Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian
People who created a civilization in Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula, about A.D. 250 to 900
Maya
Small kingdoms on the lower Congo River united under one ruler
Kongo
Native Americans who lived in the Southwest and settled in the river valleys in Central Arizona from about 300 B.C. to A.D. 1300
Hohokam
