Period 1 Id terms Flashcards
(30 cards)
pertaining or taking place between 2 or more cultures
intercultural
centered on or derived from Africa or Africans. Emphasizes African culture and the contributions of Africans to the development of Western civilization
Afrocentric
Focusing on European culture and history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world. Regard european culture as preeminent
Eurocentric
The countries of the west; especially Europe and the Americas
Occident
attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis; worldly
secular
make easier or less difficult. Help bring about something
facilitate
a particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other
sequence
the study of historical writing
historiography
apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually
ostensibly
the economic theory that all parts of a nation’s or empire’s economy should be coordinated for the good of the whole state/empire; hence, that colonial economic welfare should be subordinated to that of the imperial power. (This system was embraced by the British and opposed by many colonists who believed they were being used for the mother country’s sole benefit).
mercantilism
a system or organization in which groups or people are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
hierarchy
deduce or conclude information from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
infer
Spanish government’s policy to “commend”, or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the West Indies and on the North American mainland.
Encomienda
to conform or adjust to the customs, attitudes, etc. of a group, nation, etc.
assimilate
a Nahua people who founded their two cities Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco on raised islets in Lake Texcoco around AD 1200. They were the indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico, known as the rulers of the Aztec empire
Mexica
the combination or attempted combination of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.
syncretism
Last Aztec emperor in Mexico (1502-1520). He was overthrown by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés. (Montezuma’s revenge - traveler’s diarrhea)
Montezuma II
An Indian center for trade in 1200 A.D. that was once located near present-day St. Louis. It is an example of how advanced peoples had been in the Americas well before the arrival of the colonists in the early 1600’s.
Cahokia
Iroquois leader who almost created the first North American nation-state in the 16th century called the Iroquois Confederacy
Hiawatha
An agreement between Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
Treaty of Tordesillas
Spanish missionary who was appalled by the encomienda system in Hispaniola and called it “a moral pestilence invented by Satan”
Bartolome De Las Casas
was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer who was instrumental in Spanish colonization of the Americas. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Europe (the Vikings had reached Canada many years earlier, led by Leif Ericsson), Columbus’ voyages led to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World.
Christopher Columbus
a Spanish conquistador who initiated the conquest of the Aztec Empire on behalf of Charles V, king of Castile and Holy Roman Emperor, in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Hernan Cortes
The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E., the Olmec people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction
Olmec
