Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
24 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Beringia
|
Land that connected Alaska with eastern Siberia during the Pleistocene Era (Ice Age).
|
|
|
Paleo-Indians
|
Paleo-Indians (Paleoindians) or Paleoamericans is a classification term given to the first peoples who entered, and subsequently inhabited the American continent during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period.
|
|
|
Hopewell and Adena
|
The Hopewell civilization (also called Adena in some regions) is a prehistoric culture of the American middle west.
|
|
|
Mississippian culture
|
The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally
|
|
|
Cahokia
|
Cahokia is the site of an ancient indigenous city (ca 600–1400 CE) near Collinsville, Illinois. In the American Bottom floodplain, it is across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.
|
|
|
Matrilineal
|
Land and other family assets are passed down the female line of succession
|
|
|
Ethnocentric
|
centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own
|
|
|
Ferdinand and Isabella
|
joint monarchs of Spain; Ferdinand V and Isabella I
|
|
|
Reconquista
|
The re-conquest of Spain by the Christians after centuries of Islamic domination.
|
|
|
Conquistadors
|
A name given to the 16th-century Spanish explorers who came to the New World.
|
|
|
Archipelago
|
a group of many islands in a large body of water
|
|
|
Iberian Peninsula
|
The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day states Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France.
|
|
|
Treaty of Tordesillas
|
Occurred in 1494, the treaty was designed to reduce conflict between Spain and Portugal. It divided areas of exploration, Portuguese moved southward along Atlantic Coast of Africa so they can find new islands, Spanish did the same in the Americas.
|
|
|
Encomienda
|
The encomienda is a labor system that was employed by the Spanish crown during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines. In the encomienda, the crown granted a person a specified number of natives for whom they were to take responsibility.
|
|
|
Mestizos
|
mixed European and Native American ancestry
|
|
|
Mulattos
|
A person of mixed African and Caucasian descent
|
|
|
Martin Luther
|
German theologian who led the Reformation; believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds (1483-1546)
|
|
|
John Calvin
|
Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
|
|
|
Philip II
|
king of Spain and Portugal and husband of Mary I; he supported the Counter Reformation and sent the Spanish Armada to invade England (1527-1598)
|
|
|
Henry VIII
|
King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547)
|
|
|
Anne Boleyn
|
the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1507-1536)
|
|
|
Elizabeth
|
was Queen regnant of England and Queen regnant of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty
|
|
|
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
|
English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
|
|
|
Sir Walter Raleigh
|
English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
|
