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37 Cards in this Set
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agricultural revolution |
5000 BC -discovery of domestic farming -first domesticated plants were in mexico(corn) -governments become more formal and permenant -gender roles differ |
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mayan |
-created the mayan calendar -only priests and families could live in cities -developed writing system -1200AD decline due to possible drought- war |
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aztec |
-hunters an gatherers -moved to central mexico 1200 -eagle on cactus caused them to move |
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caddos |
-lived in east texas, louisianna -decendents from mississippi mound builders -teshas: caddy word for friend>tejas>texas -traded with other NAs, such as the aztecs |
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mississippi mound people |
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catholic church |
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feuadalism |
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the black death |
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indulgences |
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95 theses |
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protestant reformation |
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martin luther |
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john calvin |
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henry Vlll |
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astrolabe |
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caravel |
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reconquest/requonquista |
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crusades |
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prince henry the navigator |
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christopher columbus |
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hernan cortes |
-officer in spanish armada -conquistador -cuba arrival-early 1500s 1519 hears of wealthy kingdom in mexco -several ships & 600 men -goes to tenochtitlan, ends bad, leaves -later commands army of conquistadors and indians to take back tenochtitlan -conquered aztecs 1523 |
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la malinche/ dona marina |
-slave to mayans, sold by mother -given to cortez -became translator to aztecs -became cortez's mistress, bore son -became catholic -dona marina(catholic name) |
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tenochtitlan |
-mexican island -now mexico city |
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montezuma |
-king of the aztecs |
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bernal diaz |
-wrote book 4 decades after the conquest -disgusted but the pyramids |
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conquistador |
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francs drake |
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sir walter raleigh |
-came from england
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john white |
-hired by sir walter raleigh to help start colony -took 300 settlers -took him over a year to get supplies back in england -finally comes back with supplies and everyone is gone |
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roanoke |
-modern day north carolina -colonists built fort -virginia dare, first english baby birthed in americas |
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croatoan |
-indian colony near roanoke, named carved in to roanoke log |
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panfilio narvaez |
-leader of the cuban army sent to arrest cortes |
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bartoleme de las casas |
-went to catholic mass, heard priest speak about how indians were being treated -did a 180, sold land and freed slaves -became a priest himself -one of the first men to become a catholic priest in americas -spends career protecting indians and speaking out against torched by 1.goes back to europe and talks to king of spain and the pope and they make las that protect indians(now have legal rights) 2. founded his own colony in chiapas in southern mexico, and became bishop, tried to convert mayans to catholosism 3. made a written history of their torcher |
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ferdinand magellan |
-1521 organized journey with 7 ships(3 returned) -first to sail around the world -killed in philipine islands |
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cabeza de vaca |
-spaniard from mexico -1528 wanted to conquer florida -with narvaez -tried to sail back to mexico, made tiny rafts, caught hurricane -vaca tossed into texas - landed in galveston -indians made them slaves for slaves 1528-1534 -convinced indians that he was a faith healer and earns freedom -hears about 7 golden cities(eldorado) |
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el dorado |
-7 golden cities |
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francisco coronado |
-leaves to look for el dorado -finds pueblo indians -also looked in great plains, saw millions of buffalo |
