Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Mississippi Culture

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A loose collection of communtities dispersed along the mississippi river from Louisiana to Illinois that shared simlar technologies and beliefs (mound)

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John Calvin

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A laywer turned theologian, lived his adult life in Geneva, a swiss city. He stressed God's omnipotence over human affairs. The lod chose someone for "elcetion" the gift of salvation, while others got eternal damnation. A man nor woman could change this decision. People who followed were called calvenists.

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Matin Luther

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Taught women and men were saved by faith and God was taught through a Bible not a Pope or Priest, pilgrimages,fasts, alms, indulgences -could not assure salvation. He challenged Catholicism. A protestant theologian.

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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. At the time, no eurepoean had ever seen Brazil, which was on Portugals side. The treaty failed to discourage furture English, Dutch and French adventures.

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Encomeda

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People rewarded for their labor with legal protection and religous guidence.

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Mestizos and Mulaltos

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When men married indians and blacks, unions produced the mestizos (indian) and mulaltos (black)

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Iberian Peninsula

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United under christian rulers after the reconquista.

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Matrilineal

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Women who owned plantations fields, houses, mainted tribal customs, and had a roll in tribal government.

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Archipelago

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West indies and canary islands in the eastern atlantic

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Ethnocentric

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Europeans thought that they were superior, and tried to civilize Indians

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Conquistadores

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Men eager for personal glory and material gain, uncompromising in matters of religion, and unserving in there loyalty to their crown.

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Reconquista

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The holy war against the independent states in southern spain and the armes of castle and Aragon.

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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the union in spain that sparked a drive for political conolidation that took on the characteristsics of a religous crusade, due to the monarch's feveris catholicism,

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Cahokia

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a huge fortification and cerimonial site in Illimois that origenally rose high above the Mississippean people. Supported population of 20,000 people. No one knows what events broguht down the civilization.

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Beringia

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Areligion containing a land bridge conection Asia and north america, now submerged beneth the Bering Sea.

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Paleo Indians

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Spear throwing nomatic hunters that were the first people to set foot on the North American continent.

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Hopewell and Adena

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Built large cerimonial mounds where they burried the families of local cities in Ohio.

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Phillip II

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King of Spain in the 1550's

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Henry VII

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First Tudor monarch, king of england in 1509-1547 started protestant reformation

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Anne Boleyn

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Second wife of kind Henry, mother of queen elizabeth

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Elizabeth

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Daughter of king henry and anne bolyn, protestant

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert

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Irish, 1569 he was a military govenor

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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English, dispatched two captins to America, Raleigh named the area that England had calimed Virginia.