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18 Cards in this Set
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Astrolabe |
instrument that enabled navigators to calculate their latitude using the sun and stars |
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Aztecs |
advanced Native American society located in central Mexico |
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Calvinism |
Protestant faith that preached salvation by faith alone and predestination |
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Samuel de Champlain |
French explorer who established the first permanent settlement at Canada at Quebec |
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Church of England |
also called the Anglican Church |
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Crusades |
European attempts to capture the Holy Land in the Middle Ages |
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Franciscans |
Catholic missionaries who established settlements in the late 1500s in what is now the southwestern United States |
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Huguenots |
Protestants in France, by the 1600s, were believers in Calvinism |
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Hunter-Gatherers |
early societies that existed not by farming but by moving from place to place and gathering food as they went |
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Anne Hutchinson |
a Puritan housewife, she claimed go received special revelation from God, angering many leaders in Massachusetts |
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Inca Empire |
advanced and wealthy civilization was centered in the Andes mountain region of South America |
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Indentured Servitude |
a legal arrangement in which an individual owed compulsory service for free passage to the American colonies |
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Jesuits |
Catholic missionary group that established settlements in Florida, New Mexico, Paraguay, and in several areas within French territory in North America |
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London Company |
In 1603, King James I gave them a charter to settle the Virginia Company |
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Powhatan Confederacy |
alliance of North American tribes living in the region of the initial Virginia settlement |
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Puritans |
religious dissidents who left England for America to establish a "pure" church |
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Separatists |
Calvinist Protestants who did not believe that the Church of England could be purified and therefore chose to separate from it |
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John Winthrop |
helped found Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 |
