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AP US History chapter 1
The American Pageant- New World beginnings
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11th Grade
08/26/2012

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What created the great lakes?
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When the ice age glaciers disapeared about 10,000 years ago it changed the landscape by picking away at the topsoil. This left depressions into which the melting glaciers filled into.
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What was Lake Boneville?
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A huge inland sea in present day Utah, Nevada and Idaho. When it eventually evaporated, due to no inlet or outlet, it turned into a dry desert, today known as THE GREAT BASIN. The great SALT LAKE is a small living remainder of what was there.
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Who were the first people to cross over to n america?
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Asian Hunters
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How did these hunters people get to america?
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they crossed the Bering isthmus (between siberia and alaska) during the ice age. They were probably following herds of gane
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When did the ice age end? what else did this end?
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10,000 years ago. it ended further immigration over the ice bridge.
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What happened to these asian hunters over time?
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They split into countless tribes, made more than 2,000 SEPARATE LANGUAGES and many diverse cultures and religions
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By the time europeans arrived in 1492, how many people lived in the americas?
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54 million people
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Incas were in
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peru
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mayans were in
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central america
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aztecs were in
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mexico
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who practiced human sacrifices such as cutting out hearts
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the aztecs
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Incas and aztecs population primarily fed off of ____. it made their population complex, large scaled and centralized
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corn
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corn turned nomadic hunting bands into ________.
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agricultural villagers
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In north America where the colonists first came to, there were no huge societies such as the incas or mayans
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this was one reason that the colonists had such ease with the indians
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Three-sister farming *important*
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beans growing on the cornstalks, and squash covering it all to retain moisture in the soil. used amongst Choctaw and cherokee people
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biggest north american society
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the Iroquois. they had a robust military alliance
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In north america, people gave much authority to ______.
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women
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matrilinear
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power and possessions passed down the female side of the family line
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The native americans left the earth alone while europeans
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wanted to alter the lay of the land with technologie
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why were there alot of open parklike woodlands?
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indians had set fire to them for better hunting grounds
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VERY FIRST europeans to america?
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norse seafearers from scandinavia.
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The norse people came across an area in Newfoundland and named it ______ because of all the grapes. This area did not last long at all.
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Vinland
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who were the biggest indirect discovers of america
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christian crusaders
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why were they
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They agressively fought muslims for the Holy Land. in doing so, they brought back many things from asia such as silk, drugs, perfumes,colorful draperies and spices. This gave Europeans a unsatiable desire for asian goods. Which made them try to find mulitple ways to get there. Which led to the accidental discovery of america
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Marco Polo
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italian adventurer
went to china for 20 years and came back with many stories
his book stimulated for cheaper routes to china
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First to sail along the coast of africa
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PORTUGESE. they invented the CARAVEL, a ship that could sail into the wind.
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Europeans had no direct access to sub-saharan africa until _______???
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these PORTUGESE navigators began to go down the western coast of africa in the mid 1400s
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portugese set up trading posts in africa for _____ and ______.
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gold and slaves
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________ _____ _________, or even africans themselves sold the slaves. They mixed up slaves from the same tribes to avoid organized resistence
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arab flesh merchants
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slave trading became a big business for the portugese. here they founded the origins of __________, on large-scale agriculture and slaves
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plantation system
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he was the first to round the southernmost tip of africa in 1488
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Bartholomeu Dias
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in 1458, he was the first european to make it all the way to india by boat
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Vasco de Gama
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The kingdom of spain became united because of ___?
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the expulsion of muslim moors and the marriage of ferdidnand of aragon and isabella of castille
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Because the portugese controlled the gateway to India to the south and east, spain looked ____-ward
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west
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what thing in the 1300s natured an ambitious spirit of optimism and adventure
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the rennisance
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what two new inventions aided power and exploration around this time
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printing press and compass
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Christopher Columbus
Definition
-italian, but worked for spanish.
-aquired 3 boats form the spanish and headed westward
-1492, after 6 weeks they reached the bahamas. thought it was the indies
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new world foods
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tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes
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columbus returned to haiti with 17 ships that had many _____ onboard
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cattle, swine and horses
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columbus brought _____ ____ which thrived in the warm Caribbean temperature. many africans were brought over to produce this
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sugar cane
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what were the diseases europeans brought to america?
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smallpox, yellow fever and malaria
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disease that indians gave to europeans
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syphillis
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The treaty of Tordesillas
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Treaty amongst spain and portugal that divided up the new worlds land. Even though there were millions of people already living there
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ferdinand magellan
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completed the first circumnavigation around the globe. spanish. killed in the phillipines.
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fransisco pizzaro
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crushed the incas of peru in 1532. and captured a huge board of booty from them lol ;)
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what caused inflation in europe?
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this flood of precious metal from the incas. inflation up to 500%. some people say this fed the growth of capitalism.
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islands of the carribean sea=
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the west indies
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west ind
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west indies were used for _____?
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labratory testing tequniques
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encomienda
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the governement could give indians to colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them
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how did the conquistadors achieve immortality?
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because of a scarcity of spanish women, many conquistadors married indian women.
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the term for the mixture of european and indian person
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mestizos
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how did HERNAN CORTES know the language of the aztecs he was about to conquer?
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he picked up a spanish castaway enslaved by mayans and a indian slave who knew both mayan and aztec. this gave him great power
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aztec capital
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Tenochtitlan
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aztec chieftan
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moctezuma
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what does noche triste mean? what happened then?
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sad night. the aztecs attacked the spanish.
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what two things greatly diminished (200 mill to 2 mill in 100 years) the aztec population?
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conquest of the spanish and disease (smallpox)
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Tenochtitlan turned into
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Mexico City
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the new race of mestizos were created and mexicos celebrate "dia de la raza"-
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the birthday of a wholey new race of people
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to protect their area, the spanish created
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florida
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the spaniards cruely abused which people?
Definition
the pueblo indians in new mexico
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in new mexico, the reilgious missionaries efforts to supress native religious customs provoked the _______ ___.
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popes war. a indian uprising
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what did the indians do in popes Rebellion?
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destroyed every catholic church and province and killed 20 preists and 100s of spanish settlers
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black le
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black legend
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the concept held by indians that conquerers tortured and butchered the indians "killing for christ", stole their gold, and infected them with smallpox
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compared to the english, their colonial establishment was larger and richer, and it was destined to endure longer
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the spanish
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