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Native American; land bridge
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The Bering Strait land bridge was a bridge roughly 1,000 miles north to south at its greatest extent which joined present-day Alaska and Siberia.
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Sioux
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Native Ameicans and first nations people in North America.
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Pawnee
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Native American people. Original people of Nebraska and Kansas.
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Pueblo
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Term used to describe modern (and ancient) communties of Native Americans in the Southwestern USA.
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Adena
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a pre-columbian Native American culture that existed 1000-200 BC in a time known as the early Woodland Period
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Mississippian
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a subperiod in the geologic time scale or a subsystem of the geologic record.
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Iroquois
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a member of a North American Indian confederacy, the five nations comprising the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onodagas, Cayugas, and Seneas, and later the Tuscaroras
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Mayas
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the power, as of a god, to produce illusions
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Incas
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a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to Spanish conquest
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Aztecs
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a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in centural Mexico that was conqured by Cortes in 1521
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Renaissance
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the activity or time if the great revival of art literature, and learning in Europe. 14th-17th century
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Technology
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the branch of knowledge that deals witht the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life
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compass
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an instrument for determing directions
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Printing Press
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a machine, as a cylinder press or rotary press, for printing on paper or the like from type, plates, etc
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Moor
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a tract of open, peatry, wasteland, often overgrown with health
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Ferdinand
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was a portugese sea captain. He was born in Sabrosa in northern Portugal, and served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" (modern Maluku Islands in Indonesia).
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Isabella
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was queen of Castile and Leon. Ferdinand was her husband
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Protestant Reformation
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known as the Protestant Revolt, was led by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants
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Trade
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a purchase or sale; business deal or transaction
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Henry the navigator
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1394-1460 prince of Portugal
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Nation States
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a sovereign state inhabited by a a releativly homogenous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality
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Chris Colombus
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sailed fom Spain across Atlantic Ocean in 1492 looking for a route for the spice trade to india but found the West Indies
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Treay of Tordesillas (1494)
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agreement signed at Tordesillas, Spain when Span and Portgual divided the non- Christian world into two zones of influence.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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set sail for America in 1500, re-naming now known as Haiti and Dominican Republic
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Conquistadores
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participants in the spanish conquest of South and central America in late 15th-16th centuries
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Encomienda
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the crown granted a person a specific number of natives for whom they were to take responsibility
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Assiento
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History of slaves refers to the permission given by the Spanish government
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John Cabot
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italin explorer in the service of England; discover of North America mainland 1497
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Giovanni da Verrazzanoi
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italin explorer of North American service of the French Crown
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Jacques Cartier
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french explorer of Breten orgin who claimed what is now Canada for France
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Samuel de Champlain
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father of new france, was a french navigator, cartographer, draughtsman
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Father Jacques Marquette
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was a french Jersuit in missionary who founded Michigans first European settlement
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Robert de la Salle
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a french explorer. Explored Great Lakes region and Canada, Mississippi RIver and Gulf of Mexico
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Henry Hudson
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english sea explorer and navigator in early 17th century
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Joint-stock company
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a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more individuals
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Father Junepero Serra
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was a majorcan friar who founded the missan chain in Alta California of the Las Californiaa
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Assiento
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History of slaves refers to the permission given by the Spanish government
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John Cabot
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italin explorer in the service of England; discover of North America mainland 1497
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Giovanni da Verrazzanoi
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italin explorer of North American service of the French Crown
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Jacques Cartier
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french explorer of Breten orgin who claimed what is now Canada for France
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