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Incas
Location? Capital? How they fell? Government? |
A South American Civilization located in the Andes Mountains. .
Liked potatoes :) Kuzco Conquered by Pizarro Theocratic |
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Mayas
Location? Capital? How they fell? |
Located in Central America, preceded by the Olmecs and adopted many parts of their culture.
Chichen Itza NO one knows...... duhduhduh! |
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Aztecs
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Central America
Tenochitlan Conquered by Cortes (with the help of their enemies) Well known for their human sacrifice Religion to their sun gos Huitzilopitchli |
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Chaco Canyon
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South US and top of Mexico
Chaco Canyon is the capital of the Anasazi Evacuated purposefully and mysteriously :O |
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Woodland Indians
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Eastern North America
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Leif Erickson
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Viking explorer who found Newfoundland, Canada
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King Philip's War
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Metacom leader of the Wampanoag was less than friendly with the puritans an when he was about to lead a series of attacks on them and his adviser betrayed the information to the Puritans, a series of escalating conflicts began; ending with Philip's loss of allies or army of any kind.
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The Headright System
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-legal grants of land to settlers
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The Calverts
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A family that controlled Maryland for a while
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Christopher Columbus
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Portuguese Explorer seeked help from spanish king and queen to voyage to India by use of the west water route. They financially supported him and ended up discovering the Caribbean Islands and there he worked the natives into poverty in his crazy search for gold
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Bacon's Rebellion
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SOme inidian raids forced up and coming politician Bacon to break the treaty rules set with the Doeg and Berkeley, and forming a rebellion, he stormed the capital and banished the governor(Berkeley) and won the city, but the rebellion failed when he suddenly died.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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His ship circled the world, but he died in the Philippines when he hit his head on a rock. First ship to circle the entire world
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William Penn
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Founder of Pennsylvania, home of the Quakers
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Quakers
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Founded by George Fox suffered from persecution all over. In the Massachusetts bay colony, England, and Ireland. They were finally able to settle down when William Penn founded Pennsylvania.
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Mercantilism
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The prosperity of a nation depends purely upon its supply of capital.
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Francisco Pizarro
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Conquered the Incas. hooray! death!
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Navigation acts
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They were a series of trading restrictions set on England's colonies. They were a contributing reason to American colonial rebellion
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John Winthrop
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He was the leader of the Massachusetts bay colony and was a good leader, but he had to leave when
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Roger Williams
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Helped found Rhode Island as a way of protecting minorities and was a protestant. He also spoke Indian and was an advocate for fair dalings with Native Americans. :)
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Anne Hutchinson
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Was a woman who preached out against the church in MBC about how woman should act, and was put on trial for heresy, but passed, but later got banished for religious reasons.
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John Smith
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English soldier, explorer, and was the leader of the Virginia Colony.
He is known for his association with Pocahontas and he explored the Chesapeake Bay. |
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Puritans
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Separatists from Britain searching for religious peace in a new land. Had delusions of superiority.
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Cortes
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Conquered the Aztecs with the assistance of the Aztecs Enemies.
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Conquistadores
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Spanish/ Portuguese conquerors of South/ Central American Civilizations
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Jamestown
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Was established by Virginia Colony, for the purpose of some quick gold mining, but wasn't very permanent. Due to lack of women, raiding by Indians and disease, it failed.
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Joint-Stock Company
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A company in which more than one person has stock in it. Originally utilized by Britain and the Netherlands.
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Indentured Servant
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When a person temporarily sells them self in to servant-hood to hitch a ride to somewhere new. There they will be servants until the previously allotted time has come.
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Ordinance of Discovery
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A law issued by King Philip II. The importance of this law was to keep track of all political and economic life in newly discovered places.
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Catholic Missions
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Catholic Missions set up to convert natives.
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St. Augustine
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Founded in 1565 by a spanish admiral, Pedro Menendez, in Florida
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Pueblo Revolt
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Pope orchestrated the pueblo revolt. It worked even though the secret of when the attack was was let out. Unfortunately the spanish got it back pretty quickly.
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Encomienda
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legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies.
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Mestizo
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A person of Native and European
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John Cabot
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was an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of North America is commonly held to be the first European voyage to the continent since Norse exploration
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Richard Hakluyt
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English writer/ poet who wrote of america and supported settlement there
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Predestination
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before the Creation, God determined the fate of the universe throughout all of time and space.
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English Reformation
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Henry VIII broke away from the catholic church due to female issues
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John Calvin
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Seperated from the Catholic Church and founded his own sect.
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Puritans
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stayed with anglicans and tried to convert their beliefs, but not religion
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Seperatists
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Seperated from the anglican church
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Elizabeth I
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Last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
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Coureurs de Bois
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People who engaged in the fur trade without permission from the French authorities
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New Amsterdam
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Founded by dutch they lost it to the brits cuz they were disorganized politically and economically
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West India Company
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Organized the colony of Roanoke
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Roanoke
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First colony
Was poorly organized and funded Failed hard! |
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James I
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Dismissed Parliament twice
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California 1760s
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Father junipero serra starts establishing missions in California
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Holy Experiment
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an attempt by the Quakers to establish a community for themselves in Pennsylvania. They hoped it would show to the world how well they could function on their own without any persecution or dissension.
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eDMUND aNDROS
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was an early colonial English governor in North America, and head of the short-lived Dominion of New England.
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Thomas Hooker
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founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and a leader of universal Christian suffrage. Hooker also had a role in creating the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut", one of the world's first written constitutions.
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Saybrook Platform
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conservative religious proposals adopted at Saybrook, Connecticut in September 1708
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Cavalier
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a Royalist supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War
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John Locke
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was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers
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Anglican Church
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founded by king henry the eighth when he wanted a divorce, he excommunicated the pope.
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Covenant theology
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is a conceptual overview and interpretive framework for understanding the overall flow of the Bible
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MObile Societies of the Natives
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Native Americans rarely lived in the same place for a long time, they moved around because it was good for the land
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Native Agriculture
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Native often ate corn, which they introduced to settlers, and used the slash and burn technique
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Conquistadores
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The name given to the Spanish and Portuguese men who conquered different parts of South America
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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A Portuguese prince who charted parts of North America
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Tobacco
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A cash crop farmed in the americas, used to smoke and inserted in cigars, pipes, cigarettes, etc.
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Lord de la Warr
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A title for a man who served as governor of the Jamestown Colony, and the Delaware Bay was named after him.
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Virginia Company
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A british Joint-Stock Company responsible for the founding of jamestown and other colonies, was taken over by government after they went bankrupt.
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Proprietary Rule
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Each settling man was granted 50 acres of new land, when he came to America
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Toleration Act
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An act passed in Maryland allowing free religion.
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Powhatans
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Tribe of Native Americans that were settled near Jamestown.
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Plymouth Plantation
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Settlement area of those who sailed ion the mayflower.
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Mayflower Compact
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a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the compact's rules and regulations for the sake of survival
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William Bradford
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A governor of Plymouth who was elected thirty times. Started Thanksgiving
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Colonial Currency
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In 1775, the United States and the individual states began issuing "Continental Currency" denominated in Spanish dollars
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Theocratic Society
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A society based upon religion, that is not secular. Most likely requires church attendance and bases its laws upon that of said religion.
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Pequot War
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MBC + Plymouth + Native Allies VS. Pequots
I wonder who won, and if the losers got sold into slavery in the Caribbean? |
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English Civil War
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War between the king and his elites/people Royalists vs.
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Charter of LIberties
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binds the King to certain laws regarding the treatment of church officials and nobles
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Black Codes
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Set of laws for dealing with slaves in the south of America.
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William Bradford
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was an English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and was elected thirty times to be the Governor
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Narragansetts
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Leading tribes of new england cont5rolling the west of Norragansetts bay and also a little bit of massachu8setts and conneticut.
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West India Company:
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Its purpose was to open trade in north and south america and to build forts, maintain troops, and challenge spanish trade in america
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MIddle Colonies
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New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
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James Oglethorpe
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Founded Georgia, the last colony
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The Glorious Revolution
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James got the boot William and Mary came to stay
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Cambridge Agreement)
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a agreement made on August 29, 1629 between the shareholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company
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Halfway Covenant:
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a way of membership in the catholic church
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