New World Beginings - Unit 1

APUSH

Inca

indigenous group located in modern day Peru

Aztec

indigenous group located in modern day Mexico

Cahokia

indigenous group located near modern day St. Louis

Maize

native american corn

What characteristics of the indigenous made them civilizations?

elaborate cities, tech advancements, domesticated animals, religion, agriculture (stable food)

Northwest

maritime seafarers

Northeast

strong military

Great Plains

scattered nomadic hunter-gatherers

Southwest

urban-ish

Southeast

high population density

Silk Road

vast trade network spanking across Asia

Indian Ocean Trade Networks

vast maritime trade network spanning across Europe and Asia

Trans-Atlantic Trade System

network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and Americas

Ecomienda

spainish royalty granted conquistadors land and indigenous slaves with the purpose of Christianizing them (slavery)

Hernan Cortes

spainish conquistador that conquered the Aztecs

Francisco Pizzaro

spainish conquistador that conquered the Incas

Pueblo Revolt

the indigenous pueblo group temporarily drove spainish colonizers out of New Mexico

Battle of Acoma

a massacre of Acoma Pueblos ordered by Governor Don Juan de Oñate

Mestizos

people mixed with European and native American ancestry

Black Legend

propaganda developed by the French and Dutch stating the spainish tortured and butchered the indigenous