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Mayan and Aztec civilizations drew from what older culture
Olmec
This culture set up a trading network from present day Wisconsin to Louisiana.
Hopewell
Most important agricultural product
corn
Greatest city of Mississippian culture
Cahokia
Largest known Pueblo settlement in Anasazi
Chaco Canyon
Most of the population in 1450 in Europe were:
Peasants
Families raised what animal in particular:
Sheep
Language of the Catholic Church
Latin
Muslims who invaded Spain were expelled in the
Reconquista
Royal grants giving conquistadors legal control
encomiendas
First Europeans engaged in Slavery
Portugese
was an ideology that praised public virtue and service to the state
Civic humanism
Economic system of state support of manufacturing and trade, with an emphasis on domestic production for export trade
Mercantilism
Legislation passed to fence open fields and use land for grazing sheep rather than farming
enclosure acts
In Nuevo Mexico, most of the catholic priests were from what religious order
Franciscan
New Amsterdam governor who rejected the demands of English Puritan settlers on Long Island for a representative system of government
Peter Stuyvesant
To prevent the Dutch from cutting into English trade, Parliament passed what series of laws
Navigation Acts
corrupt governor of Virginia who led a rebellion with Nathaniel Bacon was
will Berkley
The majority of immigrants to Virginia had signed labor contracts called
Indentures
document that established the frame of government in the Plymouth colony
Mayflower Compact
Minister who condemned the legal establishment of Congregationalism
Roger Williams
Parliament executed him. He proclaimed a republican commonwealth, and banished bishops and rituals from the Church of England.
King Charles I
well–educated country squire who led the Puritan exodus from England to Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop
chief of the Wampanoag tribe; forged a military alliance with the Narragansett and Nipmuck peoples and fought Puritans
Metacom
Puritans established settlements to supervise Native Americans and teach them Christianity
Praying towns
The tribe that attacked English farmers who had intruded onto their lands in 1636
Pequot
Within native communities, increasing pressure for war in order to gain hunting lands diminished the power of
Elders
The spanish crown placed the "pacification" of new lands in the hands of missionaries because
the Spanish military had been defeated by Native Americans.
The Pueblo revolt strived for what right
reinstate Pueblo religious practices
French trade with indians led to what
series of wars
The dutch colony was controlled by what company
West India Company
Bacon's rebellion happened because
land needs of impoverished white freeholders and aspiring tenants.
To attract people, what did the Virginia Company do?
granted land to freemen and put up a representative government
Plymouth Colony separated church and state. What did the puritans do?
They followed the bible as much as possible.
Anne Hutchinson did what?
criticized ministers.
What action finally ended Metacom's rebellion
Lacked gunpowder and other tribes were hired to assassinate Metacom
matrilineal
system of kinship and inheriance
Dower
widow's share of the husband's possessions
primogeniture
the practice that fathers would bestow all their land on their eldest son, forcing younger children to roam poor
Heresies
doctrines that were inconsistent with the Church's teachings
Prince Henry of Portugal
founded a center for oceanic navigation
Who explored the coast of Florida and gave that peninsula its name
Juan Ponce de Leon
Who conquered the Aztec empire and destroyed its civilization
Hernan Cortés