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32 Cards in this Set
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Bering strait |
Land bridge |
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Clovis tradition |
A new and sophisticated style of tool making |
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Athapascans |
native Americans who lived in the northwest around 5000 bce |
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How did humans first arrive in the Americas? |
Sailed south along the West coast |
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How, and to what extent, did Native American societies develop cities and trade networks? |
Native American cities were very big. The trade networks had many connections and different cities specialized in different products. |
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Mesoamerica |
The region from central Mexico to Central America |
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Aztecs |
A warrior people who ruled the Valley of Mexico in the early 1000's |
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Anasazi |
People who lived in the four corners region |
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Misssissippians |
Maize farmers who lived along the Mississippi |
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Cahokia |
Largest mississippian city |
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Iroquois confederacy |
Alliance of 5 tribes |
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South culture |
Farmers and hunters living in villages and small towns |
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Northeast |
Large dense farmer cities |
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Southwest |
Individualist river farmers |
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When, where, and how did agriculture develop? |
5,000 years ago, central Mexico, through scattering seeds |
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How did agriculture affect society? |
More social complexity, less nomads, more hierarchy |
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Who lived in the Southwest when Europeans arrived? |
Pueblos |
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Who lived in the South when Europeans arrived? |
Mississippians |
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Who lived in the Northeast when Europeans arrived? |
Iroquois confederacy |
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Bartolome de las Casas |
A priest who stood up for natives |
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Hernán Cortés |
Conquered the Aztecs |
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Francisco Pizarro |
Conquered the Incas |
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Encomienda system |
Conquistadors were granted a group of natives who paid tributes for his protection |
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Mestizo |
Mixed, Spanish and indigenous |
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Fur trade |
France's biggest business in the new world |
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Northwest passage |
Everyone was looking for a way to go through the Americas |
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Elizabeth/Spanish Armada |
England invaded Spanish colonies, Spain attacked, stopped by storm, act of god |
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Roanoke |
Sir Walter Raleigh's failed English colony |
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3 things that caused European conquest |
Growing merchant class, alliance between monarchs and merchants, renaissance |
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How was the Old World affected by the Columbian exchange |
Got precious metals and crops |
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How was the New World affected by the Columbian exchange |
Got diseases and domesticated animals |
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How was Spanish colonization different from English and French colonization? |
Didn't pretend to be safe, created a caste system |
