US His - Module 1 Vocab + Study Hall

Plantation

farm where a single crop requiring lots of workers is grown on a large scale

Songhai

gained power and wealth by controlling trans sahara trade

savanna

region of dry grasslands

Lineage

line of common descent

renaissance

period of investigation of the physical world, means rebirth

hierarchy

according to rank

nuclear family

house is only pa,ma, and kids

reformation

Reform movement that divided christianity w/ catholics vs protestants

Taino

nobles ones

Colonization

Establishment of distant settlements controlled by the parent country

Columbian exchange

transfer of living things (plants, animals) between america, europe, africa

Treaty of tordesillias

split west hemisphere between spain and portugal

Conquistadors

Spanish conquerors arrived in caribbean and later mexico for gold and silver

new Spain

w/ capital of mexico city, built on the ruins of former Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan

• Know where Columbus was from & who he sailed for 

• Columbus was Genoese, sailed for catholic monarchs of Spain

• Know how many trips Columbus made to the Americas 

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• Know where it was Columbus believed he had landed initially 

• Asian Indies

• Know the first plant grown in the Americas due to agriculture and know where it  was grown 

• Maize - corn,

• grown in mexico

• Know what religion dominated Western Europe for many centuries 

• Roman catholic

• Know who were the first Europeans to purchase slaves 

portuguese

• Know about the African model of slavery and how it differed from European model 

• African - not born into slavery. No life long servitude

• Euro - born into slavery

• Know about West African religion and who they worshipped 

• Islam + spirit filled nature

• Know what Kente cloth is and its purpose 

• Multicolored fabric used as a symbol in africa

• Know the capital of New Spain 

• Mexico city

• Know what the Treaty of Tordesillas was, and who was involved 

• split west hemisphere between spain and portugal

• Know the oldest European-founded city in present-day U.S. 

• St. Augustine

• Know what empire was defeated by Hernando Cortes 

Aztecs

• Know the first European country to make contact with and begin trade West Africa 

• Portugal

• Know why the Spanish turned to using African slaves in the Americas 

• Native slaves died off over time

• Know the largest West African empire in history 

Songhai

• Know what inventions allowed sailors to leave the coastline and enter open seas 

• Compass, astrolabe, 

• Know what event led to the Spanish losing their dominance over the Americas

• Defeat of the spanish armada