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American History Exam 1
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Undergraduate 1
02/14/2012

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Maya
Definition
365 day calender, royal family, had to sell children in order to pay taxes
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Mexica/Aztecs
Definition
collected cotton and gold, sacrificed 20,000 humans at one offering
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Incas
Definition
drafted boys, descended from the Sun, Inca's sons most likely mentally encapable of ruling due to marring in the family
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Cahokai/The Mississippi
Definition
  • 30,000-40,000 people
  • had a wall seperating the royal from the common people
  • when a ruler died everyone who was attached to him was killed to accompany him to the afterlife
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What role did women play in tribes?
Definition
  • given more respect and more power since they were the ones whose source of food was always reiable and they made the clothing
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Manitou
Definition
  • compared life to a spider web, one peice is hurt and the whole society is thrown off
  •  when being accepted into the tribe, one would isolate himself and fast in order to "see visions"
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Shaman
Definition
medicine man who had a special connection to the special connection to the spirits who could tell one their dream
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Indian version of Warfare
Definition
  • theatre ritualized so that not many were hurt
  • went to war in order to restore the web of life rather than to defeat the other tribe
  • if a male was captured he was tortured and an agonizing death
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The Great Chain of Being
Definition
  • God, angels, Christians, other humans, horses, dogs, frogs, bugs
  • could be destroyed unlike the Indian version
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Marco Polo
Definition
Explorer who wrote about the trading of the Europeans
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The Silk Road
Definition
Desire for the fabrics and spices, trading network between the Europeans
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The Academy of Prince "Henry the Navigator" in Portugal
Definition
  • a navigational academy where designers came to learn
  • combined Chinese, Arab, and European to make a ship
  • compass made here
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St. Brendan
Definition
  • second most beloved saint of Ireland
  • more than 70 years and took a 7 year voyage
  • was known to have found the promise land
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Brendan's voyage "stories"
Definition
  1. a dog who lead them to a table of gold
  2. birds who claimed to be the fallen of Luther
  3. 90 year old munk who claimed to have know St. Patrick himself
  4. attacked by a sea monster
  5. saw a floating temple with a large hole for them to sail through (iceburg)
  6. Volcanic island
  7. Judas
  8. dined on a back of a whale
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Giovanni da Verrazzano
Definition
  • Italian who sailed under the barrier of France
  • studied at Henry's academy
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Verrazzano's encounters
Definition
  • 1st--in Maine they got close to shore while the indians gesture them in, they sent a child to shore in a boat which sunk and the indians help him and sent him back
  • 2nd--indains brought peace pipes which the french thought was a weapon and shot guns and scared the indians away
  • 3rd--was indians, he goes to shore and they strip him but him on fire and eat him
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Jacques Cartier
Definition
  • came upon the friendly clan ran by  Donnaconna who were urgent to trade
  • Cartier took Donnaconna back with him because of his ability to tell stories he caught a disease and died
  • when he came back to tell them the Donnaconna clan had disappeared
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Donnaconna
Definition
tribe leader where Cartier landed, he was taken to England and got a disease and died
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Sir Martin Frobisher
Definition
  • 1570s in the artic
  • five of his crew memebers were captured when he comes back they are gone but he finds fools gold which belongs the weights for the vessels
  • when no one came looking for the missing on the fourth year the indians let them go and they were never seen again
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Lief Ericson's Colony
Definition
famous for knowing about the "wood lands"
Term
reciprocity
Definition
the indians didnt understand why the europeans didnt do things equally
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Profit Motive
Definition
  • created "joint-stock companies" to fuel expeditions
  • queen elizabeth gave them the land to do with it whatever they want 
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyages
Definition
  • 1st--1578, seven ships but they never made it because of severe ships
  • 2nd--1583, reached Canada his ship sank which he went down with it.
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Roanoke
Definition
  • John White founded it
  • first colony to bring women and children along
  • indians told them to go home or they would be killed
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John White
Definition
  • founded of Roanoke island
  • after indian threat white went to get orders from the Queen he was unable to return for three years
  • when he returned no one was there
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Jamestown
Definition
  • first pemadate English settlement
  • fromed by "joint-stock system"
  • formed the colony where the indians disposed of their garbage
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John Smith
Definition
  • saved Jamestown
  • tribe captured Smith and was going to kill him when Pocahontas saved him
  • captured Pocahontas to keep Jamestown safe
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Powhatan
Definition
  • tribe leader near Jamestown
  • Pocahontas's dad
  • began to help the english
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Pocahontas
Definition
  • married John Rolfe
  • was taken to england but she got a disease and died shortly after being there
  • before she died she was one of the Queen's favorites
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John Rolfe
Definition
  • brought tobacco which enabled Jamestown to grow
  • Married Pocahontas and recieved Powhatan's blessing
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the Powhatan Uprising
Definition
  • Powhatan's brother told the indians they were to kill as many whites as possible
  • but some of the indians had become friends with the whites so they warned them
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Squanto
Definition
he was captured when he was a little boy, took to England and sold. His England master taught him English and took him back to his native land but no one was there because of a small pox epidemic
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John Winthrop
Definition
  • "city upon a hill"
  • 30 ships
  • purtians wanted to have a pure religious life
Term
Metacomet
Definition
  • small tribe and surrounded my english settlers
  • he was the indian part of the King Phillip's war
Term
King Phillip's War
Definition
  • puritans got mad when a praying indian was killed by savages which in turn made Metacomet mad
  • Two indians stealing food were killed
  • attacked 52 of the 90 settlements
  • Mohawk and praying Indians joined the puritans in revenge
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Samuel de Champlain
Definition
  • founded Quebec
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Quebec
Definition
  • jesuit missions were sent to convert the indians, started a boarding school.
  • never attacked by indians
  • families were never hear, they were in Quebec in order to trade
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New Amsterdam
Definition
  • half the population Dutch, Africans, 1600 residents, 18 different languages
  • 17 different bars but not one church
  • Iroquios trading
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The Beaver Wars
Definition
  • Very Deadly
  • changed because of European goods
  • no Huron left
  •  indians became attacked to European goods
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New Sweden
Definition
  • settled along the Deleware River
  • introduced americas to log cabins
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The Columbian Exchage: Impact on Indian society
Definition

Postive: Technology

Negative: Depletion of resources, Warfare and disease

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The Columbian Exchange: Impact on European society
Definition
Positive: survival skills, deerskins and fur, diet and population growth
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