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52 Cards in this Set
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What did the Nomadic do?
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moved around from place to place in seach of food
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What did the civilized people do?
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live in a permanent city with a controled food source or they farm
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Who were two types of Meso-Ameircan groups?
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Olmec and Tolteck
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Where did the Aztecs live and what city?
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Mexico
Tenochtitlan |
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Who were the jaguar warriors,where were they from, and what did they carry?
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fierce knights; Aztec Indians/Mexico; an obsidian sword
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Who were the "rubber people"?
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Olmec Indians
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Who made calanders, invented counting nubers, and played the "ball game"?
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Mayans
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What was the largest city of the Maya Indians?
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Tical
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What was the ball game?
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a game Mayans played to see who would be offered to their god LOSER GETS HIS HEART CUT OUT!!!!!!
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Who was the largest Meso-American group?
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the Inca
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Who was the first great king of the Inca and what did he do?
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Monco Capac/established Cuzco the capital city
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What is a llama?
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a wild animal that romes free
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Where did the Incas live?
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in the mountians
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What did Pachacuti do?
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beat many lands/built Machu Picchu on a moutain top
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About how long did the Incas last?
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1,000 years
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What did Inca have alot of?
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gold
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What happened between Atahualpa and his brother Huascar?
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they had a war to see who would be king; Huascar lost and Atahualpa drank from his scull
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Who was Francissco Pizarro?
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a Spinish conquistador
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What did Pizarro do to Athualpa?
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tricked him into coming to a pecae meeting with no weapons and forced him into filling a room up with gold once silver twice
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What was Inca hornored as?
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a living god
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Who were the Phoenicians?
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the firist people that made and sold purple die
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Who are the "purple people"?
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Phoenicians
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What were the Cedars of Lebanon used for?
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to build boats
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What did the Phoenicians make besides purple die?
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boats
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Who was Madoc?
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a Welsh missionary that went to Ohio and tried to convert the Mandan Indians to Catholicism
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Who are Vikings?
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any one from Scandinaviah
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What were vikings like and what did they do?
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land pirates/raid churches and weak people
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Who was Lief Ericson and what did he want to do?
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Eric the Red's son/find another place to live
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Where did the Vikings first land and why did they name it what they named it?
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Greenland/wanted to tell people it wes green and nice so people would come live there
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What was the second place the Vikings landed, what did they name it and why, and who was there to greet them?
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America/Canada; Vinland grape vines for wine; Skraeling Indians
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When the Vikings and Skraelings fought what did the Vikings do?
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RUN FOR THEIR LIVES!!!!!!!
they lost |
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What happened to the Vikings discovery?
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it went unknow to the rest of Europe
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What was Christopher Columbus seaching for?
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the East for: gold, silver, spices, silk, and stuff
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What was Bartholomieu Dias' goal in 1488?
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to find out what's below Africa/he found the Cape of Good Hope at the bottom of Africa
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Vasco De Gama in 1498 did what?
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sailed all the way around Africa and landed in India; came back with alot of money and spices
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Christopher Columbus thought this____________________
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"I can go West to get to the East"
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Who funded Columbus' journey?
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Spain/ King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
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What were some fears of columbus and his men?
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-flat earth/round earth
-sea monsters -pirates |
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What ships were used for Columbus' journey?
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-Nina
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Where did Columbus land and what did they leave?
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San Salvador/small pox
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What happen to the Carib Indians and what was named after them?
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they all died of small pox/ Caribean Islands
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Who said that Columbus didn't discover India and what was named after him?
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Amerigo Vespucci/America
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What did Vasco De Balboa want to discover and did?
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a passage to the Pacific-Panama
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Ferdinand Magellan wanted to do what and did?
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prove the world was round by sailing
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What happened to Magellan before the end of his journey?
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he died from a poison dart
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Circumnavigation-
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sailing around the world
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Who was the first person to circumnavagate around the world?
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Magellan
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What did Martin Luther do?
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read the Bible,realized pope was wrong, began to print versons of the Bible in German, and of course started the Protestant Reformation
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What was the Counter Reformation and Inquisition?
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when the pope said if you were a Christian you would be killed:Inquistion was horible you were burned and tourchered
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What did Spain have to help them concor the Aztecs?
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-a HUGE navy
-Conquistadors |
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Why were Conquistadors sent to the New World?
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to kill and conquior for land and gold
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Hernando Cortes and his 400 Conquistadors wanted to beat who?
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Aztecs
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