Studied by 3 people
Societies in South America
Incas
Aztecs
Incas location
Western South America (Chile)
Animism
Belief that parts of the physical world/ living things possess supernatural abilities
What crops did the Inca grow?
Potatoes and Maize
Where were the Aztecs located
South/Central Mexico
Largest city in the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan
What crops did the Aztecs typically grow?
Maize, Squash and Beans
Where was the Mississippians located?
Southeast United States, spread along the Mississippi River
What was the Misissippian’s’ largest city?
Cahokia
Matrilineal
Social standing depended on the mother’s side
Which societies followed Matrilineal practices?
The Mississipians and Iroquois
Where were the Iroquois located?
Northeast America (New York, Pennsylvania etc)
What kind of living houses/living arrangements did the Iroquois have?
Longhouses
What kind of environment did the Iroquois live in.
Lakes, trees etc.
5 Nation Confederacy
Governing Council made up of different tribes
Where was the Pueblos located?
Southwest America (Arizona etd)
Three Sister Farming
Farming method used by planting squash and corn together.
What environment did the Pueblos live in?
Deserts/Arid Environment
Adobe Houses
Houses made of “mud brick”
oftentimes had multiple stories
Great Plains hunted…?
Buffalo
Protestant Reformation
Split between Catholic Church and Protestants
Treaty of Tordesillas
Splits the hemispheres in half between Spain and Portugal
Hernan Cortes
Conquistador that conquered the Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro
Conquistador who conquered the Incas
encomienda system
Labor system in which the Native Americans work for the Spainards, and in return lived on that land.
asiento system
Slave trade system in which colonists had to pay a tax to the Spanish government for each enslaved person they brought
Middle Passage
Voyage across the Atlantic Ocean
Bartolome de Las Casas
Advocate against Native American slavery
Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Advocate for Native American Slavery
Valladolid Debate
Debate to abolish Native American Slavery or not
Native American Slavery continues
New Laws of 1542
Abolished Native American slavery but was later repealed
First English Settlements
Plymouth and Jamestown
First Spanish colonies
Florida
New Mexico
Arizona
Texas
California
First French Colonies
Quebec (Near St. Lawrence River)
Louisiana
New Orleans
John Cabot
British explorer who came to the New World
Corporate Colonies
Managed by Joint Stock Companies
Proprietary Colonies
Managed by an individual
Royal Colony
Managed by the crown
Who founded Jamestown
Joint Stock Company
John Smith
Led the early Jamestown settlement out of starvation
John Rolfe
introduced tobacco as a cash crop
Pocahontas
Married John Rolfe
referred to as the first “civilized Indian”
Reason for the founding of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay
Religious Freedom
headright system
Colony provided 50 acres of land for anyone who paid for another settler’s passage to the New World
John Winthrop
Founded Boston and sailed to Mass. Bay
Founder of Maryland
Lord Baltimore
Act of Toleration
Religious freedom to all Christans
Roger Williams
Founded Providence (Rhode Island) and started to first Baptist church
Anne Hutchinson
exiled from Plymouth
antinomianism
The belief that just faith is enough for salvation
Founder of Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
First written constitution
Founder of New York
Duke of York
Founder of Pennslyvania
William Penn
Main religious group in Pennsylvania
Quakers
House of Burgesses
First representative assembly
In Virginia
New England Confederation
Military alliance between Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut and New Haven
The Zeng
