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Chapter 1
America: A brief Narrative History
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02/04/2016

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Native Americans
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Migrated to North and South America via Siberia through Alaska and the land bridge
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Gunpowder
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Originally a Chinese invention, made it to Europe through the Arabs. Used in cannons and later in firearms. Used to unite Europe.
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Paper
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linen rag paper replaced parchment(thin animal skin) and papyrus. Revolution of spread of knowledge.
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Printing
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Gutenburg press in 1440, first moveable metal type led to multiple copies of books being printed.
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Navigation
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Creation of maps and navigational devices (astrolabe) made it easier for Europeans to explore the oceans. Decided the earth is round.
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Columbus
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Credited for many years with first discovering America. First thought it was India, subsequent voyages proved him wrong.
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Great Biological Exchange
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Diseases, Animals, Plants, people from the old world to the new world. potatoes, squash, peppers, corn, vanilla.
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Spanish Empire
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Spain claimed all of the Americas as theirs originally. Accord split off Brazil to Portugal by Catholic decree.
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Plate Fleet
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System of Spanish convoys of gold ships from Central and South America to Spain. Most famous convoy of 11 ships sank just off the Florida coast in 1715.
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Calvinism
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Whether people are going to heaven or hell is pre-ordained by God, developed by John Calvin.
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Anglicanism
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Church of England, founded by Henry V111 in England, cross between Calvinism and Catholicism. Archbishop of Canterbury
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Elizabeth I reigned from what years?
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1558-1603
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What were some of Elizabeth I's nicknames or appellations?
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Gloriana Regina, Virginia
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Sea Dogs
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The Sea Dogs were English pirates commissioned by Elizabeth I of England and were also known as Elizabethan Pirates. They were active from 1560 to 1605.
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Buccaneers
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derives from word for the wooden frame for smoking meat such as manatee. Pirates who attacked Spanish shipping. Also attacked coastal towns
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Name Elizabeth I's most famous Sea captain who was instrumental in destroying the Spanish Armada.
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Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh
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Aztec Empire
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Based in Mexico, one of the biggest Empires, trade, huge cities with organized religion and human sacrifice. Destroyed by the Spaniards.
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pueblos
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Native American adobe cliff dwellings
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Amerigo Vespucci
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America named after this Italian explorer that recognized South America as a new continent and not Asia. 1499
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Hernan Cortes
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1519. Laid seige to and conquered the Aztecs who thought the spaniards were gods at first.
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conquistadores
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Spanish term for “conqueror,” applied to European leaders of campaigns in Central and Southern America.
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Tenochtitlan
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The capital city of the Aztec Empire. which is the site of present-day Mexico City
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Francisco Pizarro
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In 1531, he lead his Spanish soldiers to Peru and conquered the Inca Empire.
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encomienda
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System under which officers of the Spanish conquistadores gained ownership of Indian land.
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Hernando de Soto
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A conquistador who explored the west coast of Florida, western North Carolina, and along the Arkansas river from 1539 till his death in 1542
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Reformation
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European religious movement that challenged the Catholic Church and resulted in the beginnings of Protestant Christianity.
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Martin Luther
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German Theology professor started the protestant movement and reformation of the church. Translated the bible into German
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Jacques Cartier
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He led the first French effort to colonize North America and explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence and reached as far as present day Montreal on the St. Lawrence River.
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Bartoleme de la Casas
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A Catholic missionary who renounced the Spanish practice of coercively converting Indians and advocated the better treatment for them. In 1552, he wrote A Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies, which described the Spanish’s cruel treatment of the Indians.
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Elizabeth I
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The protestant daughter of Henry VIII, she was Queen of England from 1558–1603 and played a major role in the Protestant Reformation. During her long reign, the doctrines and services of the Church of England were defined and the Spanish Armada was defeated.
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Papers issued by a government giving permission for a sea captain to engage in acts of piracy against ships of other nations.
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Letters of Marque
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