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12 Cards in this Set
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What parts of Europe still had slavery when Christopher Columbus started the slave trade to the Americas?
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Slavery had died out in northwest Europe, but it still flourished around the Mediterranean Sea.
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Give examples of Native American societies?
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Mound builders Hopewell, Mississippians, Adena
Located in Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala Toltec, Maya, Aztec, Inca Located in Alaska Inuit and Aleuts Located in Southwest Pueblo, Navajo, Mogollon, Hohokam, Athabascans |
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What economic conditions in England contributed to the reasons why the colonists moved to the New World?
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The number of poor in England increased rapidly in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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When was the Church of England founded?
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The Church of England was founded by Henry VIII of England in 1532.
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What were the two major contrasting European views of the New World?
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— Some thought it was a land of riches and abundance.
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Which five nations formed the Iroquois League in the 16th century?
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The Cayugas, the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, and the Senecas
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What were some of the largest French colonies in North America?
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• Canada
• Louisiana |
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Much of the early French settlement in the Americas was near present-day Canada, near the
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St. Lawrence River.
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(1475 – 1541) A Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Empire, and founder of the city of Lima, the modern-day capital of Peru
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Francisco Pizarro:
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The transfer of biological elements, including animals, diseases, and plants, between the Old World and the New World. The diseases Europeans brought to the New World killed millions of Indians.
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biological exchange
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The city in England that the Pilgrims of the Mayflower left so that they could travel to the New World. In 1620 the Pilgrims named the place where they landed, in present-day Massachusetts, "New Plymouth."
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Plymouth
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The first permanent English colony in the present-day United States. It was established in 1607 on the James River in Virginia. The colony had many difficulties, including disease, irregular delivery of supplies from England, lack of skilled labor and farmers, and sporadic skirmishes with the Powhatan confederacy.
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Jamestown
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