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APUSH ch 1
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History
10th Grade
09/11/2011

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How many years of recorded western history are there?
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6,000
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What was the first land mass to rise above sea level?
Definition
Canadian Shield
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When was the Ice Age?
Definition
2 million years ago -->10,000 years ago
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The Great Salt Lake is all that is left of this river
Definition
Bonneville
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What was the land bridge from Asia called?
Definition
Bering isthmus
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What did N.A.s live on?
Definition
maize
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What did maize for hunter-gatherer societies?
Definition
made them into settled agricultural villages
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What is one reason that the N.A.s were so easily subdued by the Europeans?
Definition
Populations not very dense
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What is the term for the N.A.s growing beans, corn, and squash?
Definition
three sister farming
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Who was the leader of a N.A. family?
Definition
mother
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What did the N.A.s sometimes do to help w/ hunting?
Definition
burn forests
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What N.A. tribe had a sophisticated military alliance that made an approximation of the nation state of Mexico?
Definition
Iroquois
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Who was the leader of the Iroquois?
Definition
Hiawatha
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These people designed this special kind of ship to deal with harsh African winds
Definition
Portugese, carvel
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Bartholomeu Dias
Definition
Reached the tip of Africa
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Vasco Da Gama
Definition
Reached India
Term
What two elements helped propel explorations?
Definition
Renaissance optimism, compasses
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What plant did Europeans especially use from the New World
Definition
potatoes
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What did N.A.s very much like from the Europeans?
Definition
horses
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What plant did Europeans bring to the New World?
Definition
Sugar cane
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Vasco Nunez Balboa
Definition
Discovered the Pacific Ocean
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Ferdinand Magellan
Definition
Made first circumnavigation
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Juan Ponce de Leon
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Made it to Florida
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Coronado
Definition
Saw Grand Canyon, lots of buffalo. Wanted gold, got adobe
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Hernado de Soto
Definition
wanted gold, tortured natives
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Francisco Pizarro
Definition
crushed the incas, got silver fromm Potosi
Term
Where was the "laboratory" for military techniques for the Europeans?
Definition
West Indies
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Who was the "traitor"/translator for Hernan Cortes?
Definition
Malinche/Dona Marina
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How did Cortes beat the Aztecs?
Definition
-Got Indian tribes that were mad at Aztecs
-Burned ships
-Moctezuma let him in thinking he was Quetzalcoatl
-Fight on noche triste
Term
Who did the English send over to the new world?
Definition
Giovanni Caboto!!!
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Who did the French send to the new world?
Definition
Jaques Cartier and Verrazano
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Don Juan de Onate
Definition
-journeyed further into America
-cut off foot of everyone in Battle of Acorna
Term
What is the name of the rebellion in which Pueblo rebels destroyed Catholic churches, killed Spanish settlers, and built a kiva?
Definition
Pope's Rebellion
Term
NAME THAT PERSON:
Cabrillo
Definition
Came to CA, didn't see much
Term
What was the myth (well, it wasn't really a myth) that all Europeans came and gave all of the N.A.s smallpox and enslaved them?
Definition
The Black Legend
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