Period 1 APUSH

  1. Beringia - a lang bridge that formed during the Ice Age when the oceans froze and sea levels dropped

  2. Maize - corn, domesticated orginially in Mexico and then spread to North Ameerica

  3. Ansazi - the ancestors of the pueblo people, who built sand dwellings, their descendants are the Zuni and the Hopi

  4. Pueblo people - ate corn, made adobe huts, civilization was ruined by a) soldiers b)missionaries c) settlers

  5. Iroquis League of Peace/ Five Nation Confederacy - Peace treaty between the five tribes in the Great Lakes Region

  6. Aztecs - ancient Mexicans, down fall caused by Hernan Cortes and smallpox

  7. Old World - Europe, Asia, and Africa

  8. New Wolrd - WH

  9. Treaty fo Torsedillas: Pope Alexander VI gave spain the NW and portugal the OW

  10. Francisco Pizarro - a spanish conquistador who conquered the Incans

  11. Hernando de Soto - Spanish explorer and conquistador, conquered Cuba, then explored Florida

  12. Encomienda - feudal system between the encomenderos (spanish) and the Indians, Indians were slaves and had to pay tribute

  13. columbian trade - the trade between NA, Euro, and Africa

  14. Southwest - sedentary, anazi, 3 sister farming

  15. Mississippi - sedentary, involved the Cherokee, Chicksaw, and Choctaws

  16. Great Plains - nomaidic, semi sedentary, buffalos and teepee

  17. Pacific Northweste - sedentary, fishing, hunting, totem poles

  18. Northeast - sedentary, long houses, 3 sister farming, under the Peace Treaty

  19. Bartolome de la Casas - Civil rights for Native Americans, failed to convinved the Spanish

  20. Juan Sepulva - stated that Indians were the inferior race

  21. Requerimento - a law passed by the Spanish govenrment saying that Indians could only be slaved if they were war captives

  22. Mestizo - Indians plus Spanish mix

  23. Casta system - racial hierarchy syste