APUSH Unit 1

Aztecs

Central America

Maya

Yucatan peninsula with temples

inca

Andes mountains/Peru

Maize

A corn like crop that supported economic development and socialization

Pueblo people

Sedentary population that build with adobe into cliffs

Nomads

Hunter gatherers in the plains/great basin

Chinook and chumash

Elk and fishing in the north west

Reasons for exploration

• Population increase

• Political unification

• Desire for luxury goods

Land based trad routes in asai

Largely controlled by muslims in the 1400 and 1500

Prince henry the navigator

established a trading post empire around the india, africa, and asia

Caravels

nimble cargo ships use solely for trade

Astrolabe

use to navigate the stars at night for trading

Stern post rudder

rudder used to control boats by hand

Isabella & ferdinand

reunited spain and established trading posts in africa, india, and asai to spread christianity

Christopher Columbus

went to isabella and Ferdinand to secure funding to find a route to asia and prove the earth is round (ended up in san salvador)

Colombian exchange

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

Feudalism

A system where peasants worked on the land of a nobel in exchange for protection

Capitalism

An economic system based on private ownership

Spanish

The first to start exploring the new world funded by the state and gold from the new land

Mercantilism

It depends on heavy government intervention and direction

Encomienda System

A system in which encounters were gifted a piece of land in which all natives on the land became their slaves

Requerimiento

Granted spanish monarchs to claim land in the new world in an effort to convert them to christianity

Caste system

Tax brackets organized by race and ancestry

hegemony

the domination of one racial group by another racial group

Mission system

conquering land with religion instead of soldiers

Pueblo revolt

1610, blamed the attacks from other native tribes on the spanish invasion of religion (burned churches and killed 50k)

Caroline de las casas

If spain kept killing people their souls would be lost to god