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Unit 1 Flashcards

1
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What were the three major civilizations in Central and South America?

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Aztecs, Maya, Inca

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What did these three civilizations have in common?

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-Large urban centers, complex political systems, and well-formed religions
-Maize

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What was the capital of the Aztec Empire?

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Tenochititlan, with a population of 300,000

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What did Aztec priests do?

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Upheld a cult of fertility for the land and people thorugh human sacrifice

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Where were the achievements of the Mayans?

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-Complex irrigation
-Water storage systems
-Built giant stone temples and palaces for their rulers, who their believed were descendants of the gods

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What were the acheivements of the Incas?

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-Cultivation of fertile mountain valleys
-Grew potatoes and other crops watered by elaborate systems of irrigation

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Why was the cultivation of maize important?

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-Supported economic development and the settlement of peoples
-Advanced irrigation and social diversification among societies

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Who inhabited the Southwest of America?

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The Pueblo people

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What were the triats of the Pueblo people?

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-Sedentary population
-Farmers of maize and other crops
-Built adobe and masonry homes

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Who lived in the Great Plains and Great Basin regions?

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Multiple tribes, but Utes are an example

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What were the traits of the Great Plains Native Americans?

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-Nomadic peoples
-Hunter-gatherer-type
-Needed a lot of land to do hunting and gathering because of the aridity of the region

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Who lived in the Pacific Northwest?

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Example would be the Chinook people

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What were the traits of the Pacific Northwest peoples?

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-Lived by the sea
-Settled into fishing villages
-Relied on elk
-Used the forest, cedar wood around them to construct plank houses

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Who lived in the Mississippi River Valley?

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More complex and larger tribe societies, like the Hopewell people

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What were the traits of the Hopewell and Cahokia peoples?

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-Traded extensively with other regions
-Government was led by powerful chieftains who centralized the government

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16
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Who lived in the Northeast?

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Iroquois

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16
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Who lived in the Northeast?

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Iroquis

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What were the traits of the Iroquois?

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-Grew maize, squash, and beans
-Built and lived in longhouses

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18
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Why did Europeans go exploring?

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-Population increase (a rebound after the Black Plague)
-Political unification (the rise of nation-states and powerful monarchs)
-Agriculture and commercial profits gave rise to an upper clase that desired luxury goods

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Why didn’t Europeans make us of land-based routes to Asia for their luxury, exotic goods?

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These routes were dominated by the Muslims, so Europeans were unable to establish an exchange of goods with Asia on their own terms

20
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What did Prince Henry the Navigator do?

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Went around Africa in search for a passage to Asia and thus established a trading post empire, which allowed them gain lucrative profit from the Indian Ocean trade

21
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What technology allowed the Europeans to explore?

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-Caravels, used specifically for trade
-Improved navigation using astrolabe and stern-post rudder

22
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Why did Spain explore?

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For the same reasons as other European countries but also to spread Christianity

23
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Why did the Spanish monarchs sponsor Colombus’ travel?

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-Portugal controlled African routes
-Italian city states controlled Mediterranean routes

24
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Where did Columbus land?

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He thought he landed in the East Indies, but it was actually the island of San Salvador

25
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Why did Spain continue its exploration of the Americas?

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Because of the gold and possible native slaves Colombus found there

26
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What was the Columbian Exchange?

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Transfer of food, animals, minerals, people, and diseases between Africa, Europe, and the Americas

27
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How did Hernan Cortes take down Tenochtitlan?

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Disease, most notably smallpox

28
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What was the Great Dying?

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The way smallpox changed native societies;
In 1530, the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas had a combined population of 40 million;
150 years later, they had a combined total of about 3 million

29
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What foods came from the Americas to Europe?

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Maize, tomatoes, potatoes, cacao, and tobacco

30
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What foods came from Europe/Africa to the Americas?

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Rice, wheat, soybeans, lemons, and oranges

31
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What animals did the Europeans introduce to the Americas?

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Horses, pigs, cattle, and chickens

32
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What is capatilism?

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An economic system based on private ownserhip and the free and open exchange of goods between property owners

33
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What people were exchanged in the Columbian Exchange?

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Africans, who were packed into ships with unsanitary and inhumane conditions, forced to bypass the Middle Passage, and were sold into bondage for labor

34
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How did the Spanish finance their expeditions?

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Through their mercantilist economic policies

35
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What was mercantilism?

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The dominant economic system of Europe;
Depended on heavy governmental direction and intervention

36
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What were Africans exchanged in slavery for?

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Guns

37
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What thought system was used to justify the purchasing of slaves?

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Europeans postulated that Africans were descendants of Canaan, who has been cursed by Noah to be a slave his whole life, so they found their actions biblically justified

38
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What was the encomienda system?

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A system in leading men called encomenderos were granted a portion of land and all the natives who lived in that land became the coerced labor force

39
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Why wasn’t the encomienda system working out for the Europeans?

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The Great Dying;
The natives knew the land better than their captors, so they could escape

40
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Why wasn’t the encomienda system working out for the Europeans?

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The Great Dying;
The natives knew the land better than their captors, so they could escape

41
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Why were Africans brought in to replace native labor?

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-Had better immunity
-Knew the land less than the Spanish did

42
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What was the caste system?

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Used for tax purposes;
The lower on the hierarchy, the more the taxes

43
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What is hegomony?

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The domination of a nation or group by another nation or group

44
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What was the mission system?

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In which Spain sent missionaires to convert natives to Christianity

45
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What tribe converted to Christianity but maintained worship of other gods?

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The Pueblo people

46
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What was the Pueblo Revolt?

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In which the Pueblo people rose against their captors, killed Spanish colonizers, and burned churches, believing that the cause of their trouble was the Spanish and their Christ

47
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What was the effect of the Pueblo Revolt and other revolts like it?

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King Charles convened a group of priests, philosophers, and jurors to discuss the moral and legal fallout of Spanish conquest in the Americas

48
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Who was Batolome de Las Casas?

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Argued against brutality and killing of the Native Americans;
Suggested instead for Africans to replace native labor

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