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Incas
>People who ruled parts of South America
>began in the Cuzco area
>1200
Mayas
>Mesoamerican civilization
>Developing language of the pre-Columbian Americas
>2000 BC
Aztecs
>ethinic group that dominated much of Mesoamerica
>built large empire throughout mesoamerica
>14th century
Chaco Canyon
>ancient Native American cultural center
>Important Anasazi
>900-1130 AD
Woodland Indians
>Prehistoric Native Americans from the woodland area
>technically advanced; cultivated crops in the valleys of north Georgia
>1000 BC to 1000 AD
Mobile Societies
>indigenous people of North America
>8000 BCE
Native Agriculture
>squash, cotton. sunflower, pumpkin, tobacco, goosefoot, knotgrass, and sumpweed
Leif Erikson
>band vocalist and actor
>starred in films
>1930-1964
Prince Henry the Navigator
>prince from Portugal
>responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations and maritime trade
>1415
Christopher Columbus
>navigator, colonizer, and explorer
>led to the European awareness of the Americas
>1490's
Ferdinand Magellan
>Portuguese explorer
>led first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean'
>1519-1522
The Conquistadors
>Spanish Soldiers
>Led the conquest of the Incan Empire
>1492
Cortes
>Spanish conquistador
>caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
>16th Century
Fransisco Pizarro
>Spanish Conquisatdor
>Conquered the Inca Empire
>1500's
Ordinance of Discovery
llolloolol
Sir Walter Raleigh
>English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, coutier, spy and explorer
>Popularized tobacco in England
>financed and organized Roanoke island
>1500's
Roanoke
>Enterprise financed and organized by sir Walter Raleigh
>1580's
>best known for for the "lost colony"
Tobacco
>prominent crop grown in the colonies
>17th century
Virginia Company
>joint stock companies chartered by james the 1st
>1600's
>not allowed to have colonies
Powhatans
>virgina Nativ Americans
>extinct
>1600's
propriety rule
>unpopular from the start because propertied immigrants to the colony hoped to monopolize fundamental constitutions of Carolina as a basis for government
Toleration act
>law mandating religious tolerence
>first limit on hate speech in the world
>1636
Mayflower Compact
>first governing compact of the plymouth colony
>1620
>freedom to practice Christianity
William Bradford
>english leader in plymouth colony
>elected govenor 30 times
>1600's
Theocratic society
>government system in which god is the state's supreme ruler
Pequot War
>>Massachusetts , plymouth, and some NAtive American tribes attacked the pequot tribe
>survivors sold as slaves
>1634-1638
King Philip's War
>1675
>chief King Philip attacked 52 puritan towns
>Bloodiest war faught in New England
English Civil War
>war between Parliamentarians and Royalists
>1642-1651
>sparked the american revolution; colonies forced to fend for themselves
Middle Colonies
>AKA bread colonies or Breadbasket colonies
>previously apart of New Netherlands
>Now present day New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware
>became apart of the colonies in 1600's
Charter of liberties
>written proclamation by Henry 1st of England
>1100
>binded the king to certain laws regarding the treatment of church officials and nobles
Black Codes
>laws mostly passed in the south to limit the basic rights of african Americans
>1800's
Holy Experiment
>attempt by quakers to establish a community for themselves in Pennsylvania
>took off with William Penn
California 1760's
>Spanish missionaries first established
>1769
James Olgethorpes
>British general, philanthropist
>1733
>founder of Gerogia
Mercantilism
>English laws that prevented colonies from trading with other countires
Navigation Acts
>restricted foreign trade between england and the colonies
>1651
>factor in the Anglo-Dutch Wars
>resentment for revolutionary war
Sir Edmond Andros
>governer of the dominion of New Engand
>1600's
The Glorious Revoltuion
>AKA revolution of 1688
>overthrow of king james 1st by parlimentarians with and invadin army led by Dutch Stadtholder
Combridge Agreement
>sgreement made bewteen shareholders of the Massachusettes bay company
>led to the foundation of Boston
>1629
Covenant theogoly
>conceptual overview and framework used to understand the bible
Half way covenant
>form of partial church membership
>felt that englsih colonies were drifting from their original religious purpose
>1662
Thomas Hooker
>prominant puritan founded colony of connecticut
>1600's
saybrook platfrom
>proposals attempted to unite churches
>1708
calvaliers
>term used for parlimentarians
>1600's
John locke
>philosopher
>father of liberalism
>inspired ideas of equality and freedom