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US History Chapter 1 Test Flashcards

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The North

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Inuit, Hunt, fished and gathered food

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The Northwest Coast

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Waterways and the primary source of food for the Native Americans

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California

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The Chumash, Yunok, Native American- gathered food from land

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The Plateau

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Built villages on high riverbanks

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The Great Basin

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People worked together in small groups to hunt and gather food including roots/ pine nuts/ rabbits/ and insects

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The Southwest

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The Hopis and Zunis farmed this dry region

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The Plains

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Mandans, Wichita, Pawnee, and other groups farmed corn, beans, squash and hunted buffalo

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The Northeast

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Native Americans in this region fished,chanted, and farmed, Iroquis groups formed an alliance “The Iroquois League”

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What are the three shared customs and beliefs?

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Social Structure
Religion
Preserving Culture

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What do Native Americans do with land?

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Native Americans did not trade, buy, or sell land

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Migration

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Movement of people for the purpose of settling in a new place

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Kinship

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Determined the social structure

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Clan

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Groups of families who are all descended from a common ancestor

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Oral history

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Traditions passed from generation to generation by word of mouth

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Barter

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Trade

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Middle Ages

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Or the “Medevial period”

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Feudalism

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Political and economic system, a powerful noble, or lord divided his large landholdings among lesser lords

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Crusades

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Series of military campaigns by European Christians from 1096-1291 to win Jerusalem from the Turks

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Middle class

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A social class between the wealthy and the poor, made up of merchants, traders, and artisans who made goods and sold the, to the manors

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Monarchs

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Those who rule over a state or territory

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Manga Carta

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“Great Charter”

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Renaissance

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A French word meaning “rebirth”

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Reformation

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Revolt against the Catholic Church that began in 1517

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Savanna

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A major near the equator with tropical grasslands and scattered trees

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Lineage

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Kinship groups that trace their origin to a common ancestor

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Scarce

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In short supply

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Colombian Exchange

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The transatlantic trade of crops technology and culture between culture between the Americas and Europe, Africa, Asia that began in 1492 with Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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1494 treaty in which Portugal and Spain divided the non- Christian world

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Plantation

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Large farm on which crops are raised mainly for sale

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Cash crops

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Crops that are grown for sale

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The growth of cities (3 things)

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It created a new Middle Class a social class between the rich and poor
It revived a money economy 
It contributed  to the eventual breakdown of the feudal system
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What is the purpose of the Magna Carta?

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Was signed 1215 becoming the foundation for American ideals of liberty and justice, granting them various legal rights

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The Rise of Universites

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Nobles and wealthy men began enrolling in the universities in the 1100’s

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***BONUS

Johann Gutenberg does what in 1455?

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Prints the Bible text using moveable type

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What is Dante known for and as?

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He is known as an Italian writer and the first writer in “common language”

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Prince Henry of Portugal

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Known as a Prince Henry the navigator and established a Mariners’ school in Portugal

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Vasco de Gama

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Sailed from the first sea route from Europe to Asia

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Under feudalism who farmed the land?

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Serfs

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The holy war to take Jerusalem from the Turks, which started in 1096 was known as what?

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The Crusades

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The people of any new Christian lands would be ripe for conversation to what?

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Catholicism

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Which types of groups wanted a direct trade route that by passed the easier route?

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Wealthy merchants and royalty

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Columbus’s journeys launched a new era called what?

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Transatlantic trade

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Trade from Europe

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Corn
Potato
Sweet potato
Squash
Peanuts
Avocados
Tomatoes
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Trade from Europe—–>America

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Disease
Wheat
Sugar
Pig
Goat
Horses
Rice
Grapes
Olives
Cattle
Sheep

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