Studied by 3 people
A key feature in Cahokia
Monk’s Mound
Spanish estates that used forced Indian labor
Encomiendas
Tracing one’s family line through the female side
Matrilineal
The spectacular Aztec city
Tenochtitlan
The first Europeans to reach North America
Vikings/Norseman
#1 killer of Native Americans in age of exploration
Disease
The removal of all Moors and Jews from Spain
Reconquista
Conquered the Incas
Franciso Pizarro
Term for racial hierarchy being based on “blood purity”
Sistema de Castas
First European nation to use African slaves for labor
Portugal
This brought wealth, power, and knowledge to Europe
Crusades
Despised native translator who helped Hernan Cortez gather military intelligence on the Aztecs
La Malinche
Planting corn, beans, and squash together
Three sisters
Poor Indian visited by the Virgin Mary
Juan Diego
Term for Iberian born Spaniards
Peninsulares
New World’s first major European plantation crop
Sugar
Helped produce the caravel for open ocean exploration
Prince Henry
“miracle” New World plant that impacted Europe (Columbian Exchange)
The potato
a factor in determining slave status among Natives
Kinship Network
Communicating using string knots
Khipu/quipu
The primary Dutch colony in North America
Joint-stock company
Term for the offspring of French and Indian couples
Metis
The first English settlers in New England
Pilgrims
Urged the English to colonize the New World
Richard Hakluyt
First permanent North American English settlement
James Town
Native Americans initially allied with the Dutch
Iroquois
Associated with the Great Migration
Puritans
Split New World between Spain and Portugal
Tordesillas
The founder of New France
Samuel de Champlain
The crop that helped “save” Jamestown
Tobacco
A financial innovation to fund English exploration
Joint-stock company
Used by the French to exchange with beaver pelts
Wampum
The first permanent European settlement in the SW
Santa Fe
Fabled waterway Asia through North America
Northwest passage
Native Americans who interacted with Jamestown
Powhatan
Defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588
Elizabeth 1
the location with the largest slave population
New Amsterdam
English pirates that raided Spanish ships in the 1500’s
Sea Dogs
cross-cultural interactions and negotiations space
Middle Ground
The nation tagged with the “Black Legend” label
Spain
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