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14 Cards in this Set
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Beringia
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A land bridge that was created by receding waters, connecting Asia and North America, which is now submerged beneath the Bering Sea.
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Mississippian People
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A loose collection of communites dispersed along the Mississippi River from Louisiana to Illinois that shared similar technologies and beliefs. (Cahokia)
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conquistadores
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Sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers, often of noble birth, who subdued the Native Americans and created the Spanish empire in the New World.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Treaty negotiated by the pope in 1494 to resolve competing ladn claims of Span and Portugal in the New World. It divided the world along a north-south line in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, granting to Spain all lands west of the line and to Portugal lands east of the line.
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Virginia
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Named by Sir Walter Ralegh in honor of his patron, the Virgin Mary. The land was granted to him by Queen Elizabeth.
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Adena-Hopewell
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People on present-day southern Ohio, named by archaeologists to distinguish differences in material culture. Built large ceremonial mounds, where they buried the families of local elites.
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Norsemen
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Tenth Century Scandinavian seafarers that established settlements in the New World. Also known as Vikings.
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Columbus & his ships
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Spanish Explorer who set sail in 1492 to find China (Cathay) with a small fleet including the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria
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Encomienda System
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An exploitative labor system designed by Spanish rules to reward conquistadores in the New World by granting them local villages and control over native labor.
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Roanoke
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First settlement established on coast of North Carolina in 1585 by Ralegh
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Cahokia
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A huge fortification and ceremonial site in Illinois that orginally rose high above the river and represented the greatest achievement of the Mississippian peoples.
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Columbian Exchange
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The exchange of plants, animals, culture, and diseases between Europe and the Americas from first contact throughout the era of exploration.
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Amerigo Vespucci
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An Italian adventurer who published a sensational account of his travels across the Atlantic that convinced German mapmakers he had proved America was distinct from Asia, thus they named the continent in his honor.
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Bartolome de las Casas
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A Dominican (a Catholic religious order) who published an eloquent defense of Indian rights, Historia de la Indias, which questioned the legitimacy of Europea conquest of the New World.
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