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22 Cards in this Set
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Polytheism
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The belief in more than one god.
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Matrilineal
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When the majority is women.
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Bering Strait.
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A narrow channel of water connecting the Bering sea to the Arctic Ocean
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hunter-gatherer
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How the iroquois ate their food.
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Three Sisters
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How the iroquois planted crops. corns beans and squash, they worked together.
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Iroquois Confederation
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A place where women had a special part. They had political power, and they chose clan leaders. They were peaceful.
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Wampum
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A belt with lots of beads
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Flint
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A type of rock that makes fire
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Deganawidah
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The leader of the iroquois confederation, believed strongly in peace.
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Glacier
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a thick sheet of ice
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Maya...
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Priests were very powerful
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Northwest Passage
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A waterway through or around North America
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Bartolome de las Casas
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A priest who journeyed to Europe and wrote in journals of what he saw.
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Spanish Missions
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they were established as apart of the spanish colonization.
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Indentured servant
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a servant who works for a contracted amount of years
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Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
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Columbus's ships
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Aztecs
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they were native american people who dominated northern mexico at the time of spanish conquest.
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Tainos.
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pre-colombian inhabitants of the bahamas. wiped out by christopher columbus.
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colony
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A group of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland.
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Conquistadors
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Spanish for conquerers. A name given to a group of people led my Hernan Cortes.
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Smallpox
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A highly dangerous and contagious disease.
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Boston Tea party
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When america rebelled on having a tax on tea.
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