Module 1 Vocabulary APUSH

Indigenous Agricultural and Social Systems

  • Horticulture: Defined as the practice of growing food.

  • Manioc: A plant identified as cassava characterized by long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.

  • Tenochtitlan: The historic capital city of the Aztec Empire.

  • Chinampas: Described as Aztects floting gardans.

  • Atlatl: A specific tool or stick utilized by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas for the purpose of propelling a spear or dart.

  • Egalitarian: A social principle asserting that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

  • Sedentary: A lifestyle or state of not migrating and living in one plase.

  • Matrilineal: A structure of famly where traded tho the mothers linige.

  • Staple crop: A type of crop pepal subsisted on.

European Expansion and Renaissance Contexts

  • Renaissance: The 14th–17th century period of European cultural and intellectual ‐rebirth‐.

  • Missionary: An individual going to teach pepal about religon.

  • The Spanish Inquisition: A period whin the king and quean desited to kill everyone who not parting crisanty "right".

Navigational Tools of the 15th through 17th Centuries

  • Caravel: A type of Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship in use during the 15th–17th centuries.

  • Astrolabe: An instrument used to make astronomical measurements, t

Spanish Colonial Methods and Administrative Structures

  • Encomenderos: A sestom of getiging native amricans to work for the promes of land.

  • Encomienda: Described as -) the right to extract forced labor and tribute from Native Americans in exchange for promises of protection and Christian instruction.

Module 1 Terms for Review

  • Requerimiento

  • The Great Dying

  • Feudalism

  • Capitalism

  • Aristocratic

  • Lucrative

  • Heathen

  • Spanish caste system

  • Mission system