Us History Exam 1

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Azetec civilization flourished between (year?)

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1345 and 1521

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The Azetec Civilization rebuilds their civilization after a tribal war to an estimated amount of

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4-5 million people

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The Aztec Civilization had a good political system. After the king, their are 3 important advisers which are:

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Chief of Priests
Chief of Justice
Chief of Market

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Why is religion an important part of government?

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Blood Religion

-one person has to die a day for the sun to come up

-drag them to top open up chest and rip out the beating heart. the priest takes a bite, and then is thrown to fire.

-they even covered a pyramid in blood (20,000 people)

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The Aztec empire came to cover most of

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northern Mexico, an area of some 135,000 square kilometers.

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Regular tributes were extracted and captives were taken back to

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to Tenochtitlán for ritual sacrifice.

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Tenochtitlan was founded in

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1325

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Tenochtitilan was built

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in the middle of an island

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Tenochtitilan is now known as

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Mexico city but during that time had a population of 300,000.

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Tenochtitlán was also a huge trading center with goods flowing in and out such as

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gold, greenstone, turquoise, cotton, cacao beans, tobacco, pottery, tools, weapons, foodstuffs (tortillas, chile sauces, maize, beans, and even insects, for example) and slaves.

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Chief of Market was not only important for trade but for ____ as well

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spies being sent to other places as well

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Myth of a savior..

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Quetzalcoatal-- the bird that will come flying in white

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Hernando Cortez would take advantage of this myth that would

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,a Spanish Conquistador who, led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire

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Cortez plays off of the myth and the Aztec king

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Montezuma was not pleased and set him gifts in order to send him away

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Even though they would be defeated the main cause of death would be

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the new disease , like small pox, that led to their demise

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The Aztec Empire would be forever remembered because

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was considered the last great pre-Columbian civilization before the Spanish arrived in 1519. The Aztec Indians have left enough historical records to give us an idea on the impact they had on world history. Even the Conquistadors had maintained records on the Aztec Indians and we now have an account of how this civilization lived along with their religious beliefs, practices, food and cultural traditions. Many of these things have influenced modern Mexico, and are still evident even today in everyday life.

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Christoper Columbus was born in

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1451

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Christopher Columbus was a

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explorer, navigator, cartographer, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa

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He made a total of __ trips to new world

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4

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Christopher Columbus took 3 ships with him on the first trip called

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Nina

Pinta

Santa Maria

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This trip was suppose to benefit his people by

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getting Asian trade started

converting them to Catholics

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Who sponsored his trip

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Spanish after he had been rejected by John II

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The Spanish would sponsor Christopher Columbus because

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his wife was half Italian and Portuguese related to Isabella

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The Mayans flourished around

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300 to 900 AD

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The Mayans developed populated cities with

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pyramids, temples, and palaces supported by surround peasant villages

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What did the Mayans use to create a calender more accurate than the Europeans

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mathematics and astronomy

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Some of the contributions to the collapse were:

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overexploited the rainforst

overpopulation

succumbed to the toltecs, a warlike people that occupied most of thier land in the 10th century

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The Mayans was a what kind of inspired civilization

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Olmec

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Anne Hutchinson was a follower of her paster John Cotton who believed..

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You can not buy your way into heaven.

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Anne Hutchinson had church meetings...

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in her home and got her followers politically involved

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Hutchinson got John Winthrop...

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out of office and elected a Hutchinson supporter for Governor, but the puritans rallied and got a puritan in office the next year.

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Anne Hutchinson went on trial shortly after that in

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1637

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The trial was going good until

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she said "god told me" because puritians believed that God does not directly speak to people

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When Anne was banished from the colony

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she developed the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island

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Rhode Island was known for being

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more supportive of other religions. They just did their own thing and was not punished for it

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Rhode Island was started in ____ but became a Royal Charter in ____

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1644,1663

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The Iroquois lived in the

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northeast

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The Iroquois consisted of 5 different tribes

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Mohawk- Flint People

Oneida-Stone people

Onondagas- Mountain people

Seneca- Hill people

Cayuga- landing people

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The Iroquois have absorbed many other peoples into their cultures as a result of

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warfare, adoption of captives, and by offering shelter to displaced nations.

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Iroquois Population

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10,000

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They farmed sometimes. they were

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semi-nomadic

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Blood Feud

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if someone was killed, they would either replace them or kill one from the opposite side for revenge which caused more problems.

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Iroquois was a matriarchal Society.

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your place in society was based off of your mother. Divorce was easy. The women would place the mans stuff outside.

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The land of the Iroquois people were

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shared. it was no poverty.

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if you did something bad in the Iroquois society you are

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shunned.

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Iroquois had a leader that rose up named Hiawatha that went on a

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vision quest. he went from village to village to stop the blood feud.

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Hiawatha set up the

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Council of 49 chiefs.

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After the Council was set up

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Villages Stabilized

was able to defend Algonquin
population increased

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Iroquois ended when they

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backed the wrong side in the American Revolution, British.

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Georgia was occupied by

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the Spanish until James Oglethorpe came.

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James Oglethorpe created ga because

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the debtors prison overflowed back home

defense against spanish

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Oglethorpe initially got interested becaue

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his friend Robert Castell ended up in debtors prison because he was unable to pay back his debts for his book. He caught small pox and died.

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out of the 100+ people that came over

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none were prisoners. more prisoners went to SC or nc than ga.

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In 1733, Oglethorpe landed on tybee island then sailed to

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yamacraw bluff.

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Yamacraw was

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a local tribe. Tomochichi was in his 80s when they arrived. he hooked up with the English to help fight out Spanish and other tribes.

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Sir Robert Montgomery designed the

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Margravate of Azilia plan that ended up being used for ga's town squares.

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Initially no one wanted to come to ga because

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no slavery

military colony

limited to how much land you could back

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GA prohibited

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had liquor but beer was allowed

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The Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to

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purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed

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The puritans ended up in

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Massachusetts Bay

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The puritans leader was

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John Winthrope

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JW gave a speech called

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'A Model of Christian Charity" that has been quoted by president Regan.

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The capital of Massachusetts is

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Boston

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They lived on the Township system which is

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30/40 men partitioned to the government to get land. 40 square miles

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Who was not allowed in the puritan area?

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Quakers

Baptists

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The land could be divided up to

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four generations. then you would begin to see them developing townships in other places. Consolidation was a familiar term that was put into use

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To vote in puritan community you had to be

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a freeman, 21, man, and a church member in the 17th century.

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Select men are chosen by

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voters.

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The select men choose

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the general court.

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Once a year at the town meeting who makes laws for the year

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citizens

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General Court does?

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communicates with Britain

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The women in the puritan society

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had children

taught children their primary education

boys with through an apprenticeship

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The apprenticeship could last up to

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5 years. apprentice-journeymen-master craftsmen

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In 1636, they would found one of the most well known schools today named

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Harvard.