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23 Cards in this Set
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Jaoh Calvin
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a lawyer turned theologian. lived his adult life in Geneva, a Swiss city. He stressed God's omnipotence over human affairs. The lord chose someone for "election". the gift of slavation, while others got eternal damnation. A man nor woman could change this decision. people who followed called Calvinists
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Martin 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. eh 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 Azores. Any new lands discovereed west of the line belonged to Spain. At eh time, no European had ever seen Brazil which was on Portugal's side. The Treaty failed to discourages future English, Dutch ,and French adventurers
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Encomienda
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people rewarded for their labor with legal protection and religious guidence.
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Mestizos and mulattos
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when men married Indians and blacks,unions produced the mestizos (indian) and mulattos (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 owned plantations, fileds, houses, maintained tribal customs, and had a 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 they were superior, and tried to civilize Indians
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Conquistadores
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men eager for personal glory and material gaoin, uncompromising in matters of religion, and unswerving in theri loyalty ot their crown.
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Reconquista
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the holy war against the independent states in southern spain and the armies 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 consolidation that took on the characteristics of a religious crusade, due to the monarchs' fervid Catholicism
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Cahokia
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a huge fortification on ceremonial site in Illinois that originally rose high above the river. Represented the greatest achievement of the Mississipean peoples. supported population of 20,000 people. No one knows what events brought down the civilization
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Beringia
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A religion containing a land bridge connecting Asia and North America, now submerged beneath the Bering Sea
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Paleo-Indians
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spear throwing, nomatic hunters that were the first people toset foot on the North American continent
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Hopewell and Adena
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built large cerimonial mounds where they buried he families of local cities in Ohio
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Mississippian Culture
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A loose collection of communities dispersed along the Mississippi River from Louisiana to Illinois that shared similar technology and beliefs (mounds)
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Philip II
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king of Spain in the 1550s
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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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Ann Boleyn
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second wife of king 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 governor
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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English, dispatched two captains to America. Named the area that Englans had claaimed Virgina.
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