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39 Cards in this Set
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Berginia
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land bridge connecting America and Asia
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Neolithic Revolution
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began raising plants (maize)
permanent villages governments |
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Chinampas
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Floating Gardens
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Olmec
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1st civilization
"mother culture" large head sculptures Believed in Jaguar |
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Zapotec
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built Monte Alban, first real urban center
ceremonial centers, ritual ball games, elite ruling class |
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Maya
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Yucatan Peninsula
Tikal, Chichen Itza idependent city state ball court gods behavior through intricate calendars perced and sacrificed bodies calendar |
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Cenotes
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holes in ground to underworld
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Glyphs
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hieroglyphic symbols
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Codex
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barkpaper book
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Popol Vuh
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Mayan creation story
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Toltecs
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warlike
capital- Teotihuanan peace god, raft of snakes- Quetzalcoatl |
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Huitzilopoctli
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instructed Aztecs to build city where an eagle is perched on a cactus with a snake in its mouth
made sun rise if given blood(hearts careved out) |
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Tenochtitlan
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Aztec capital
island connected to mainland by 3 causeways |
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Chavin
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"mother culture" to Andean civilizations
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Nazxa
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irrigation systems
Nazca lines |
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Inca
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Valley of Cuzco
kings preserved Bureaucracy ppl worked together labor work certain # of days road/ bridge system stone buildings socialist |
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Pachacuti
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expanded Inca Empire
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Chasquis
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runners
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Quipu
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knots on cords
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Exploration
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crusaders
Reniassance desire for wealth expand christianity tech advances |
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Caravel
Astolabe |
ships that sail into wind
reveal latitude |
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Prince Henry
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Portugual
Navigation school conquered north Africa |
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Portugual
tip of Africa Cape of Good Hope |
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Vasco da Gama
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Portugual
reached India |
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Chirstopher Columbus
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Spain
found America |
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Ferdinand Magellan
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circumnavigate the globe
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Hernando Cortes
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couguered Aztec
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Francisco Pizaro
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conquered Inca
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Encomienda
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labor system
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Las Casas
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against encomienda system
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Columbian Exchange
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global transfer of things
corn and potatoes |
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Capitalism
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economic system based on private ownership and investment of wealth for profit
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Joint-stock compnay
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People pooling their money together for a common purpose
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Mercantilism
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nations power depended on wealth
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Favorable balance of trade
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nation that exports more goods than imports
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Peninsulares
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born in spain
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Creoles
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born in America with Spanish blood
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Mestizos
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ppl of both Native and Spanish background
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Mulattoe
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spanish father and African slave
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