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29 Cards in this Set
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Cahokia
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one of the largest irbam centers created by Mississsippian peoples, containing 30,000 residents in 1250.
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Transoceanic Migrations
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a population migration across oceans.
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page 5
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beringia
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a subcontinent bridging Asia and North America, named after the Bering Straits.
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page 6
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Athapascan
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A people tha began to settle the forest in the northwestern area of North America around 5000 B.C.E.
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page 7
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Clovis Tradition
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A powerful new and sophisticated style of tool making, unlike anything found in the Old World.
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page 7
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Pleistocene Overkill
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Intensified hunting efforts brought on in response to lowered reproduction and survival rates of large animals.
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page 9
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Archaic period
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the period roughly 10,000 to 2500 years ago marked by the retreat of glaciers.
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page 9
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mesoamerica
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the region strecting from central Mexico to central america.
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page 12
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Aztecs
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a warrior people who dominated the valley of mexico from 1100-1521
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page 12
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clams
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groups of allied families
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page 13
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Rancherias
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dispersed settlements of indian farmers in the Southwest
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page 18
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Kachinas
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Impersonations of the Ancestral sprirts by southwest indians
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page 19
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Feudalism
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a medieval european social system in which land was divided into hundreds of small holdings
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page 29
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Renaissance
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the intellectual and artistic flowering in europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixtennth centuries sparked by a revival of interest in classical antiquity
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page 31
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Reconquista
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the long struggle (ending in 1492) during which Spanish Christians reconquered the Iberian peninsula from Muslim occupiers.
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page 32
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Treaty negotiated by the pope in 1494 to resolve the territorial claims of Spain and Portugal
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page 39
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Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther's Challenge to the Chatolic Church, initiated in 1517, calling for a return to what he understood to be the purer practices and beliefs of the early church
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page 42
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Predestination
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the belief that god decided at the moment of Creation which humans world achieve salvation.
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page 42
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Protestants
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all european supporters of religious reform under Charles V's Holy Roman Empire.
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page 42
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Coureurs De Bois
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French fpr "woods runner," an independent fur trader in New France.
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page 53
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Beaver Wars
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series of bloody conflicts, occuring between 1640s and 1680s, during which the Iroquois fought the French for control of the fur trade in the east and the Great Lakes region.
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page 54
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House of Burgesses
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the legislature of colonial Virginia. First organized in 1619, it was the first institution of represenative government in the English colonies.
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page 56
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Indentured Servants
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individuals who contracted to serve a master for a period of four to seven years in return for payment of the servant's passage to America.
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page 56
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Puritans
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Individuals who believed that Queen Elizabeth's reforms of the Church of England had not gone far enough in improving the church. Puritans led the settlement of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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page 57
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Pilgrims
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Settlers of Plymount Colony, who viewed themselves as spiritual wanderers
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page 58
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Separalists
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Members of an offshoot branch of Puitanism. Separalists believed that the Church of England was too corrupt to be reformed and hence were conviced they must 'seperate" from it to save their souls.
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page 58
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Mayflower Compact
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the first document of self-government in North America
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page 58
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Massachusetts Bay Company
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a group of wealthy Puritans who were granted a royal charter in 1629 to settle in Massachusetts Bay.
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page 59
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great Migration
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Puritan emigration to North America between 1629 and 1643.
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page 59
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