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23 Cards in this Set
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nomadic |
no fixed home moving from place to place |
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Olmec |
Native American people flourished in Southern Mexico |
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Maya |
Native American peopleflourished in Guatemala A.D. 250- 900 |
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Aztec |
Native American people settled in the valley of Mexico developed powerful empire |
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Inca |
-Native American people -created an empire that reached nearly 2500 miles along the west coast of South America |
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Adena |
Mound Builder society centered in OV river valley 700 B.C. to 1000 A.D. |
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Hopewell |
Mound Builder society centered in Ohio River valley 200 B.C. to A.D. 400 |
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Pueblo |
group of Native Americans descendants of Anasazi deserts of Southwest |
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Iriquois |
group of Native Americans woodlands of the North Coast |
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kinship |
ties between 2 family members |
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division of labor |
assignment of different tasks to different groups/individuals |
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Islam |
religion founded in Arabia A.D. 622 prophet Muhammad believers called Muslims |
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plantation |
large farm labor of slaves or other workers used to grow a single crop sugar cane, cotton |
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lineage |
group of people descended from a common ancestor |
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Renaissance |
period of European history 1400-1600 renewed interest in classical culture |
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hierarchy |
social ordering by rank or class |
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nuclear family |
household: mother, father, children |
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Crusades |
series of Christian military expeditions to the middle east A.D. 1096 to 1270 intended to drive Muslims to the holy land |
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Reformation |
religious movement in 16th century Europe desire to reform Roman Catholic church establishment of various protestant churches |
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Christopher Columbus |
genoese sailer left spain to find faster route to asia reached land and claimed it for Spain |
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colonization |
establishment of outlying settlements by a parent country |
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Columbian Exchange |
plants, animals, and diseases between western and eastern hemisphere |
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
1494 spain and portugal agreed to divide lands of the western hemisphere between them |
