APUSH American Pageant Chapter 1 Vocab

APUSH American Pageant Chapter 1 Vocab

Incas

Native American tribe in Peruvian Andes

Mayans

Native American tribe in Central America

Aztecs

Native American trive in present day Mexico City, known for its human sacrifices

nation-states

Civilizations with functioning governments and civil bureaucracies

Cohakia

St. Louis settlement home to many Native Americans

Three-Sister Farming

Practice of growing beans, corn, squash together for maximum yield

Caravel

Innovative Portugese ship with triangular sails, which allowed it to sail into the wind

Plantation

Large scale agricultural enterprise using slavery to grow commercial crops

Columbian Exchange

Transfer of diseases, crops, and livestock between the Old and New Worlds

Treaty of Tordesillas

Agreement which gave Brazil and African territory to Portugal but the rest of South America to Spain (Britain and France were left out)

Encomienda

Spanish system of legal slavery

Noche Triste

Night during which the Aztecs attacked and drove Cortes and the Spanish away from Tenochtitlan

Capitalism

Economic system characterized by private property and free trade

Mestizos

Those who had Spanish and Native American descent

Conquistadores

Spanish military commanders/explorers

Pueblo Revolt

1680s Native American revolt against missionaries attempting to suppress Native religious customs

Black Legend

Myth that Spaniards brough nothing but slavery and genocide to the New World

Christopher Columbus

Spanish explorer who first reported the existence of the New World to the European powers

Francisco Coronado

Spanish explorer of present day Kansas

Francisco Pizzaro

Conquistador who conquered the Incas

Bartolome de las Casas

Spanish priest who tried to protect Native Americans

Hernan Cortes

Conquistador who conquered the Aztecs

Moctezuma

Leader of the Aztecs during the war against Cortes

Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot)

European discoverer of Canada

Father Junipero Serra

Leader of the effort to christianize Native Americans in California