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24 Cards in this Set
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Beringia
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The tundra that the Paleo-Indians crossed to get from Asia to North America
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Paleo-Indians
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Small nomadic groups of Indians that hunted giant mammals and crossed Beringia to North America
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Hopewell and Adena
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Mound building indians that lived in present-day southern Ohio and giave way to the Mississippian culture one thousand years after the birth of Christ
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Mississippian Clture
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A loose collection of communities dispersed along the Mississippi River from Louisiana to Illinois that shared similar technologies and beliefs
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Cahokia
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Greatest acheivemient of Mississippian peoples. A huge fortification and ceremonial site in Illinois that originally rose high above the river. Covered almost twenty acres, supported almost twenty thousand people
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Matrilineal
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Women owned the planting fields and houses, maintained tribal customs, and had a role in tribal government
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Ethnocentric
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Believing one's own culture to be superior
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Ferdinand and Isabella
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The King and queen of Spain in 1500 that believed in Catholicism
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Reconquista
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The holy war between the strongly Catholic armies of Castile and Aragon and the independent states in southern Spain that had been captured by Muslims. Thousands of Jews and Moors were driven from Spain.
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Conquistadors
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Men eager for personal glory and material gain, uncompromising in matters of religion, and unswerving in their loyaly to the crown. Carried European culture to the New World
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Archipelago
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a group of islands in a chain or scattered cluster
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Iberian peninsula
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The southwestern peninsula of
Europe that contains Spain and Portugal |
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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(1494) divided the entire world along a line located 270 leagues west of the Azores. Any new lands discovered west of the line belonged to Spain.
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Encomienda
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In Spain, theMonarch rewarded the leaders of the conquest with Indian villages
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Mestizos
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A mixture of Indian and Spanish.
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Mulattos
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A mixture of black and Spanish.
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Martin Luther
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A German monk who challenged Roman Catholicism. First leader in the reformation
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John Calvin
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Creator of Calvinism. Stressed predestination and the omnipotence of God
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Phillip II
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Leader of Spain and Portugal who sent a fleet accross the English channel to defeat Elizabeth, England's protestant queen, but ultimately failed.
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Henry VIII
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The first Tudor monarch. Seeking divorce, he broke all ties with the pope and created the Church of England, which was Protestant
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Anne Boleyn
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Henry VIII's second wife, whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth, with.
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Elizabeth
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Henry's daughter and later queen of England who tried to end the religious conflict by establishing an institution Catholic in its ceremony and government and Protestant in its doctrine
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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A brutal English governor of Munster, Ireland.
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Sir Walter Ralegh
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Established two Roanoke settlements that failed. First settler of Virginia
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