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24 Cards in this Set
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clovis people |
first known immigrants to the Americas who crossed over the Bering Land Bridge |
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Anasazi |
developed Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde |
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Chaco Canyon |
city built of logs and adobe with a lot of apartment buildings built by the Anasazi |
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Mesa Verde |
Anasazi city with cliff dwellings |
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Cahokia |
mound builder people who used agriculture to sustain a large society |
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Southwest Indians (Pueblo) |
used lots of canals, dams, and terracing to allow agriculture in a dry climate |
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Pacific Coast (Shasta/Chinooks) |
made fishing canoes, woven baskets that could hold water, and fished for salmon which they ate all year |
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Great Basin and Great Plains Indians |
lived off buffalo and hunted them by forcing them to fall off a cliff horse changed their lives dramatically |
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Atlantic Coast Indians (Iroquois) |
5 nations with women leaders who shared the land and lived in longhouses that would house many families |
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Aztecs |
founded Tenochtitlan in the middle of Lake Texacoco (northern Mexico) |
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Mayans |
on the Yucatan peninsula only Americans with a written language |
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Incas |
Pacific coast of south america Machu Picchu and Cuzco |
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Columbian Exchange |
transatlantic exchange of plants, animals, and diseases after first European contact with Americas |
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how did horse affect American culture after Columbian exchange? |
helped hunt in the Great Plains as well as become a tool for warfare |
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how did the potato affect Europe? |
staple food in Ireland because it was easy to grow and cheap |
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how did the Columbian exchange affect Africans |
sugar cane found in the Caribbean Spain wanted to get slaves to expand sugar cane plantations Portugal opened up the slave trade |
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Hernan Cortes |
conquered the Aztecs and Montezuma after believing that they submitted to Spain with their warm welcome; established New Spain |
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Bartolome de Las Casas |
religious guy who protested against the oppression of Indians and Encomienda system through writing; originally was given an encomienda but renounced it |
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Encomienda system |
large ranches worked by Indian slaves that offered protection from enemy tribes as well as Christian conversion in exchange for labor |
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Ponce de Leon |
Spanish explorer who came to Florida looking for the "fountain of youth" |
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Cabeza de Vaca |
explorer who went on an expedition that got blown over into Texas and had to rely on support of Indians to survive, learning about their culture as he went to Mexico city |
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Don Juan de Onate |
appointed governor of New Mexico who was told to attract the natives peacefully, but ended up disobeying orders after being attacked by an Acoma Pueblo leader and killed a lot of Indians |
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how did Don Juan de Onate organize New Mexico? |
separated it into multiple districts with a priest in each district to attempt to convert Indians to Christianity |
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feudalism |
system in which nobles were given land by the government in exchange for military service, while peasants lived on the land and worked it in exchange for military protection |
