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Unit 1: Vocabulary Flashcards

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Aztecs

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A Mesoamerican civilization in Mexico
City-state structure

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Mayans

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A Mesoamerican civilization occuping much of Yucatan, Belize, and Guatemala.

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Incans

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A Mesoamerican civilization in western South America (Peru)

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Ferdinand & Isabella

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The monarchs of Spain who granted Colombus the ability to travel to the Americas.

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Columbian Exchange

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The widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, and slaves.

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Capitalism

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an economic and political system in which private owners control a country’s trade and industry for profit.

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Caste system

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A system that ranked races
1. Spaniards (peninsulares) – white, Spain-born
2. Crillos – offspring of Spaniards born in Americas
3. Mestizos – people of mixed European and Indigenuous ancestries
4. Mulatos – people of mixed European and African ancestries
5. Zambos – people of mixed Indigenous and African ancenstries
6. Indigenous
7. African

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Great Plains Indians

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Arid, largely mobile

Sioux

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Northwest Indians

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hunter-gatherers, dependent on ocean

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Southwest Indians

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hunter-gatherers, dependent on ocean

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Northeast Indians

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Mixed agriculture and hunter-gatherer

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Southeast Indians

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Mixed agriculture and Hunter-gatherer

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The Three Gs

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God, Glory, Gold

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Three Sisters

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Corn, beans, and squash

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Iroquois League

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6 tribes in a league

Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Caguya, Seneca, and Tuscarora

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Renaissance

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a period of time inwhich there were many advancements

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Feudalism

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in which the nobility held lands from the Crown

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Caravel

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a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship

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Magnetic compass

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instrument for determining direction on the surface of Earth

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Transatlantic slave trade

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a period of forced migration and enslavement of millions of Africans

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Middle passage

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the section of the Colombian exchange that involved bringing enslaved people to the Americas

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Conquistador

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spanish conqourer

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Mission

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religious mission

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Encomienda system

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  • Spanish Labor System that rewarded conquerors with the labor of conquered non-Christian people
  • 1000s of non-Christian people died, allowing Conquistadors to force them to work under brutal conditions with the prospect of getting military protection and education.
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Peninsulare

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Spanish people that look white and were born in Spain

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Creole

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A person of mixed black and European race especially in the Caribbean

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Mestizo

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  • A person of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry
  • Because European and Indigenous marriage, it allowed for trade, alliances, better survival, and a bit of cultural exchange.
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Protestant Reformation

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  • Christians, across Europe, revolt against the pope(Catholic) in Rome
  • One of the main reasons for Europeans to come to the new land as they feared prosecutions for being Protestant and not Catholic, and also the want to spread their own religion
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Hernan Cortez

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Francisco Pizarro

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Bartolome de Las Casas

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Longhouse

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Silk Road

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Catholicism

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A religion followed by majority of Christian back in the day.

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Christopher Colombus

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Maize

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  • Corn brought to the north, originally from Mexico
  • Helped boost populations, improved diets, and caused social diversification
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Smallpox

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  • A disease brought from the Europeans/Old World to the New World
  • One of the biggest causes of deaths towards the Natives due to their weak immune systems, and not being exposed to such diseases.
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St. Augustine

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  • First successful European colony
39
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Treaty of Tordesillas

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The world splits between Spain and Portugal(1494)

AP USH (10 decks)

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