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