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historiography
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1. The body of writing on a particular historical event. 2. The process or technique behind writing a historical event.
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hermeneutics
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the process of interpretation
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primary source
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a document written by someone who was present or from the same time period of a historical event
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secondary source
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a document from any other time period other than the period in which the event took place
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Columbus
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took a fleet of ships towards what he thought was Asia and ended up in North America
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Vespucci
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claimed to make voyages between North and South America and wrote extravagant stories about the trips, though it is questioned whether he really went
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Magellan
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first to circumnavigate the earth. it took about three years.
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Cortes
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Spanish beaurocrat in Cuba who went to Mexico to take it over. Indians helped him fight the aztecs because everyone hated them. Eventually, small pocks did most of his work.
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Pizzaro
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Conquered the Incas to take Peru.
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Encomiendas
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Estates that were divided by the Spanish in South America
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De Las Casas
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Advocate for Indian rights. Moves back to Spain and joins the catholic church.
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Cartier
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Explored the gulf of St. Lawrence and was the first to make claims for land in the name of the French.
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La Salle
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Looks for the Mississippi
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The 5 C's
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Contact, Contagion, Conquest, Commerce, Colonialism
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Cabot
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Sails up the Eastern Coast of North America for England
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The London Company
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a group of men working to start colonization. colonized jamestown
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gentlemen
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men who were part of the upper class and were not actually allowed to work
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headright system
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for every person you pay to come to America, you get 50 acres
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house of burgesses
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the first representative group in America
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indentured servitute
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someone would pay a poor person's way to Virginia and in exchange, they would become a servant/slave for seven years. after their seven years, they would be released with only the clothes they were wearing
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slavery
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did not start out as hereditary (people's children are automatically slaves). was originally a form of punishment. slavery already existed when the portuguese encountered africans.
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west africans
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believed in many gods. men and women shared agricultural responsibility. believed in the veneration of their ancestors.
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1622 Indian war
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when the indians came into the colony and acted like they just wanted to hang and then at an orchestrated time, they all just went crazy and started killing as many english as they could. English then lured the Indians into town with a banquet and promise of a peace treaty and they had poisoned the food.
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Massachusetts colony
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is the norther version of Virginia, except that where Virginia was founded for profit, Mass. was founded as a religious venture, mainly puritan.
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Pilgrims
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the first people to separate themselves from puritanism and settled in Plymouth
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Winthrop
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founded the city of Boston
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Massachusetts Bay Co.
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a group of people planning on moving away from England and starting a brand new society
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freemen
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only people who can vote when they arrive in the new world. essentially, they are the equivalent of modern day stock holders. There were like less than ten people in the whole colony who could vote and then they figured out that was stupid so they decided that only church members could vote. However, it was really difficult to become a church member.
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governing body
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consisted of a governor, deputy governor and a court of assistants
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court of deputies
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comparable to the lower house of congress. together with the governing body, they are called the General Court.
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Williams
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is a friend of Winthrop and comes to be a minister, but then when his views differ greatly from those of most people and people want to arrest him, he moves to Rhode Island and starts a colony of religious freedom. Basically, he founds the first baptist church, but then decides he doesnt believe in that and eventually decides that only him and his wife are true christians.
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Hutchingson
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Woman who is an extreme Calvinist and said that works had nothing to do with salvation.
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enthusiasm
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God talks to individual people
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Pequot War
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First Indian war. Started over a murder case where a Pequot Indian killed a different Indian. The war lasted two years and was really bloody and brutal.
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