Studied by 3 people
Chapters 1 and 2
Bering Land Bridge
the path the first people took to get to the Americas. It was the dry land between Asia and North America, created by the ice age that froze most water in glaciers. It is now flooded by the Bering Sea.
Black Death
the bubonic plague that reduced the European population to half as much in the 1300s.
Clovis people
the group of people thought to be the first to come to North America. Their name originates from the site where spear points were found in New Mexico that indicated their existence.
Anasazi
“ancient one,” a group of people who lived in New Mexico 700 years before Columbus
Mound builders
Native American tribes that built large burial and ceremonial mounds on top of which sporting events and religious activities took place.
Reconquista
the struggle during which Spanish Christians reconquered Muslim lands, reunifying Spain.
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty confirmed by the Pope in 1494 to resolve and border the claims of Spain and Portugal in the Americas
America
The name Europeans gave the land encountered across the Atlantic in 1492, after explorer Amerigo Vespucci
Silk Road
Overland trading route established by Marco Polo (Venetian trader) in the late 1200s.
Columbian exchange
the Transatlantic exchange of plants, animals, and disease that occurred after first American
New Spain
The first Spanish empire in the Americas
Encomienda
The grant (usually a large ranch) to a Spanish settler of a certain number of American natives who would pay him tribute in goods and labor in the Spanish colonies
Conquistadores
Early spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru
Ninety-Five Theses
A document of 95 debating points that Martin Luther put together and hoped would lead the Catholic church to a reformation
Protestant Reformation
Beginning with Martin Luther’s efforts to reform the Catholic church, eventually led Luther, Calvin, and followers to completely break away and establish a new church
Nation-state
A new development in Europe during the 1300s and 1400s where nations became major political organizations, replacing smaller kingdoms and city-states.
Peace of Augsburg in 1555
An agreement among smaller German kingdoms that no ruler would attack another kingdom on religious grounds.
Treaty of Westphalia
1648; treaty between many European powers that extended the ideas of the Peace of Augsburg
Seven Cities of Cibola
Name for the discovered Native American pueblos given by early Spanish explorers
Anglicans
In the Church of England, one group of Protestants who wanted to establish a church led by the monarchy
Puritans
Believed that Church of England reforms did not go far enough in improving the church
Roanoke
an island where Algonquian people lived found by English explorer Walter Raleigh, intended to be a base for privateers; located on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, first English colony
