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Incas
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began as a tribe in the Cuzco area around 1200. Spanish Conquistadors conquered much of the area in 1533
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Mayas
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a Mesoamerican society known for its fully developed writing system. the Spanish conquered it around 1550.
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Aztecs
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The dominant empire in what is now Mexico in the 14th 15th and 16th centuries. conquered by the Spanish in 1519.
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Chaco canyon
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a concentration of pueblos in the American southwest. between 900 and 1150 it was a major center of culture for the ancient pueblo people.
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Woodland Indians
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a cultural area of indigenous people of North America. it extended from the Mississippi river to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Mobile Societies
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Societies that are primarily seen as Hunting-Gathering. mobile societies in North America would be the Native Americans.
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Agriculture
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The production of food and goods through farming. it was invented forever ago.
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Leif Erikson
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A Norse explorer who is credited as the first European to land in North America. he did this 500 years before Christopher Columbus
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Prince Henry The Navigator
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A prince of Portugal. he established the maritime trade and worldwide exploration for Portugal.
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Christopher Columbus
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A navigator, colonizer, and explorer from Italy. his voyages across the Atlantic Ocean helped to establish a European awareness of North America.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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A Portuguese explorer who later received Spanish Nationality. his expedition was the first to sail from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean.
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The conquistadors
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they were Spanish explorers, soldiers and sailors. they are best known for conquering much of south America and Mexico
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Cortes
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a conquistador who led an expedition that led to the fall of the Aztec empire in the early 16th century.
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Francisco Pizarro
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a conquistador who led an expedition which brought down the incan empire in 1533.
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Catholic Missions
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a series of missions along territorial borders in the "new World" during the age of discovery.
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Encomiendas
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a labor system that was employed by the Spanish during the colonization of America.
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Pueblo revolt 1680
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an uprising of pueblo's against Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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mestizo
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a Spanish term for someone who was both of European and Amerindian descendence.
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John Cabot
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an Italian navigator who's voyage and discovery of north America was the first since the 11th century.
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Richard Hakluyt
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an English writer who is remembered for his support of English settlement in North America.
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Doctrine of Predestination
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a doctrine of Clavinism which deals with the question of the control God exercises over the world.
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The English Reformation
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a series of events in 16th-century where England broke off from the Roman catholic Church.
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John Calvin
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a principal figure in the development of the system now known as Calvinism.
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Elizabeth 1
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the last monarch of the Tudor Dynasty. she established the English Protestant Church.
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Coureurs des Bois
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an individual who engaged in the fur trade without the permission of French authorities.
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