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74 Cards in this Set
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Clovis tip, pg. 5 |
The tip of a spear that has a jagged edge that made it cut better. Found in New Mexico |
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Neolithic, pg. 5 |
Time period when humans used stones as weapons (spear, arrows). Means "new stone age" |
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Incas, pg. 8 |
-Dominant in around 1400 CE -Capital Cuzco -2000 mile empire -No written language -They had high-altitude runners -invented the decimal system -Quipu- knott string in a certian way to communicate 1500 -they ruled 8-12 million people |
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Olmecs, pg. 8 |
-First urban culture in mesoamerica -Created the giant stone heads -First pyramids -Ball parks -Created a written language -Created a dual calendar system -They believe in human sacrifice -In the empire of Teotihucan -Now modern day Mexico City -Sudden destruction in the mid-8th century |
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Mayan, pg. 8 |
-Biggest city is Tikal -Closer to the carribiean -Astronamy- writting sytems- time keeping- blood letting (to speak to gods) -Weakened after the fall of Teotihuacan -Decayed in the 9th and 10th centuries -Drought |
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Azetecs, pg. 10 |
-1400 Aztec power in the Valley of Mexico
-Tenochtitlán- on the lake Texcoco -Had the causeways- chinampas(floating gardens) -Built the great pyramid of the sun -Constatly at War -Didn’t want to take the people/ they wanted to use their supplies -Believed in a lot of human sacrifce/ on a giant scale -1519- many Indians in Mesoamerica would help the Spainards bring down the Aztecs
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Tenochtitlán, pg. 10 |
Aztec city on the lake
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Anasazi, pg.12 |
-Cliff-dwelling people
-Most information comes from Chaco Cayon in New Mexico and at Mesa Verde in Colorado -Lived apartment house that were 5 stories high--Craved into the cliffs -Built rodes -Left cites either because of drought or invaders |
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Cahokia, pg. 13 |
-City near modern St. Louis
-flourished from 900-1200 CE |
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Staple crop, pg. 18 |
-Something you need to survive
-ex. wheat, beans, etc. |
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Slave labor, pg. 18 |
Using people to farm your land and work for you
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Caravel, pg. 19 |
-New ship created by the Portuguese
-Best ship of it's time -could mount cannons on it |
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Factories, pg. 19 |
small posts on the coast of Africa that would give them rest in the middle of a voyage
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Atlantic slave trade pg. 19 |
-Portuguese start the slave trade
-would buy slaves from other africans in enemy tribes |
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Santa María, pg. 22 |
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Conquistadores, pg. 23 |
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Hernán Cortés, pg. 25 |
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Matrilineal, pg. 26 |
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Encomienda, pg. 28 |
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Hacienda, pg. 30 |
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Serfdom, pg. 31 |
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Columbian exchange, pg. 33 |
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Predestination, pg. 38 |
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Huguenots, pg. 39 |
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, pg. 39 |
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Coureurs de bois, pg. 40 |
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Mourning wars, pg. 41 |
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Intendant, pg. 41 |
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Patroonship, pg. 44 |
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Yankees, pg. 44 |
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Non-Separatists, pg. 45 |
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Separatists, pg. 45 |
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privateer, pg. 46 |
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Joint-stock company, pg. 47 |
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Tsenacommacah, pg. 47 |
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Fall line, pg. 47 |
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House of Burgesses, pg. 48 |
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Headright, pg. 48 |
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Proprietary colonies, pg. 49 |
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Sachem, PG. 54 |
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Anne Hutchinson, pg. 56 |
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Public Friends, pg. 63 |
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Quitrent, pg. 65 |
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Praying Indians, pg.74 |
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Iroquois League, pg. 77 |
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Convenant Chain of Peace, pg. 77 |
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Onontio, pg. 79 |
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Mercantilism, pg. 82 |
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Balance of trade, pg. 82 |
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Enumerated Commodities, p. 82 |
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Whigs, pg. 83 |
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Tories, pg. 83 |
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Funded national debt, pg. 87 |
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Entail, pg. 90 |
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Primogeniture, pg. 90 |
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Anglicization, pg. 100 |
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Dowry, pg. 101 |
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Coverture, pg. 101 |
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Dower rights, pg. 101 |
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Middle Passage, pg. 102 |
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Gang System, pg. 102 |
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Sickle cell, pg. 102 |
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Task system, pg. 103 |
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Gullah, pg. 104 |
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Redemptioners, pg. 104 |
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Fiat money, pg. 105 |
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John Peter Zenger, pg. 106 |
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Enlightenment, pg. 106 |
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Consumer society, pg. 108 |
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Evangelical, pg. 110 |
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Presbytery, pg. 110 |
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Synod, pg. 110 |
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Revival, pg. 111 |
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Freemasons, pg.112 |
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