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02/29/2012

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Danger Cave
Definition
the desert culture in utah
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Eva
Definition
Archaic site on natural levee in TN
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Atlatl
Definition
Spear thrower
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Desert Culture
Definition
Archaic in arid and semiarid regions of American West
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Humboldt Cave
Definition
Desert culture in Nevada, near lake Humboldt
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Jon Hus
Definition
Religious reformer in Prague, burned at the stake by the council
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Hernan Cortes
Definition
Spanish that conquered Mexico
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Martin Luther
Definition
started protestant reformation
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John Calvin
Definition
protestant priest of main church in Geneva
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Stono Uprising
Definition
slave uprising in South Carolina
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Pequots
Definition
New England tribe defeated by English colony
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Metacomet
Definition
chief of wampanoga tribe and started King Phillips war
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Roger Williams
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said people should not take land from the Indians without paying for it, and government should not tell people what to believe or how to worship
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Anne Hutchinson
Definition
said many ministers were getting away from the Doctrine of grace, taught men and women in her home, guilty of heresy
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John Winthrop
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1st govenor of massachusetts
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Dendrochronology
Definition
tree ring dating
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Navigation Act of 1660
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attempt by English government to help English ships for business
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London Company
Definition
gave charters to people to start colonies in Virginia and Massachusetts
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Captain John Smith
Definition
saved Jamestown by aking poeple do agriulture work and established military
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William Penn
Definition
King gave him land (Pennsylvania)
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Indentured servant
Definition
servant for a certain amount of time to come to America
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Father Bartolome de las Casas
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young priest who participated in the conquest of cuba, owned a plantation but gave up his ways, became a critic of Spanish cruelty
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significance of the discovery of the folsome culture?
Definition
Indians were here before the Ice Age ended 10,000 B.P.
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In what ways were the Archaic culture different from the cultures that preceded it?
Definition
Baskety, and grinding stones
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What conclusions can be drawn from the burials and artifacts of many Hopewell sites?
Definition
Large population lived there, there was a central authority, at least 2 social classes, had abundance of food but no gardening, widespread trade
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4 distinctive characteristics of Mississippian sites

Definition

1.towns located on river terraces close to rich bottom land

2.pyramidal mounds around a plaza

3. rectangular houses made a wattle and daub

4. shell tempered ceramics

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Explain the main points of Puritan theology
Definition

the bible was the authority for the church

everybody is morally depraved

everything is predestined by god

some people are elecgted by god to be saved

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What effect did tobacco have on chesapeake society?
Definition
they needed something to export back to England
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Why was the Chesapeake region slow to establish colleges?
Definition
send sons back to England if they wanted college education
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Discuss the effects of European contact on Native Americans.
Definition
They saw Indians as simple and easy to control. Europeans killed them with disease, slavery, and the conquest for gold and land.
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Discuss the witch craze in Massachusetts in 1692.
Definition

arrival of Parris split the church

Parris brought is daughter, wife, niece, and 2 slaves.

daughter and niece accused elder women of hurting them in their sleep.

girls were not physcologically well

they used the girls to accuse people from the other half of the church.

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