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17 Cards in this Set
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Aztec Emipre |
Mesoamerican people who were conquered by Spanish under Hernando Cortes, 1519-1528 (page 9) |
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Pueblos |
Spanish term for the adobe cliff dwellings of the indigenous people of the Southwesters United States (Page 13) |
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Vikings |
Norse people from
Scandinavia who sailed to Newfoundland about a.d. 1001 (Page 150 |
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) |
The Italian sailor who persuaded King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to fund his expeditions across the Atlantic to Discover a new trade route to Asia. Instead of arriving at China or Japan he reached the Bahamas in 1492 (Page 20) |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1455-1512)
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Italian explorer who reached the New World in 1499 and was the first to suggest that South America was a new continent. Afterward, European mapmakers used a variant of his first name, America, to label the new world. (Page 22)
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Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) |
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire and set the precedent for other plundering conquistadors. (Page 28) |
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Conquistadors |
Spanish term for "conqueror" applied to European leasers of campaigns against indigenous peoples in central and southern america (Page 28)
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Tenochtitlan |
The capital city of the Aztec Empire. The city was built on marshy islands on the western side of Lake Tetzcoco, which is the site of present-day Mexico City (Page 29)
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Franciso Pizarro (1478-1541) |
In 1531, he lead his Spanish soldiers to Peru and conquered the Inca empire. (page 31) |
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Encomienda |
System under which officers of the Spanish conquistadors gained ownership of Indian Land. (Page 310 |
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Bartolome de Las casas |
A catholic who renounced the Spanish practice of coerciely converting Indians and advocated the better treatment for them. In 1522, he wrote "A brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies," which described the Spanish's cruel treatment of the Indians. (page 33) |
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Hernando de Soto |
A conquistador who explored the west coast of Florida, western North Carolina, and along the Arkansas river from 1539 till his death in 1542. (page 34) |
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Reformation |
European religious movement that challenged the Catholic Church and resulted in the beginnings of Protestant Christianity. During this period, Catholics and Protestant persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, and killed each other in large numbers. (page 40) |
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
As an important leader of the civil rights movement, he urged people to use nonviolent civil disobedience to demand their rights and bring about change. He successfully led the Montgomery bus boycott. While in jail for his role in demonstrations, he wrote his famous "Letter from Birmingham Civil Jail," in which he defended his strategy of nonviolent protest. In 1963, he delivered his "I Have a Dream Speech" from the steps of the Lincoln memorial as a part of the March on Washington. A year later, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1968 he was assassinated. (page 40)
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Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)
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The protestant daughter of Henry VIII, she was Queen of England from 1558-1603 and played a major role in the Protestant Reformation. During her long reign, the doctrines and services of the Church of England were defined and the Spanish Armada was defeated. (Page 43)
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Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) |
He led the first French effort to colonize North America and explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence and reached as far as present day Montreal on the St. Lawrence river. (Page 44)
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Raleigh's Roanoke Island Colony |
English expedition of 117 settlers, including Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, colony disappeared from Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks sometime between 1587 and 1590 (Page 48) |
