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