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AH1 Unit 1 Vocabulary
AH1 Unit 1
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History
11th Grade
08/09/2019

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Tainos
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A Native American people of the Caribbean Island. The first group encountered by Columbus and his men they reacted to the Americas
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Lineage
Definition
Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
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Martrilineal
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of / base on kinship with the mother/ any female in the line of the family
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Islam
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The religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life
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Toltec
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AD 900 when the Maya empire had begun to decline the Toltec came to dominate. They were skilled warriors, artisans, and builders
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Barter
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Trading service or food/Goods for no money
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Colonization
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System of settling in a new land that remain under the government of the native land
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Plantation
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An estate when crash crops are grown on a large scale ( especially in topical areas.)
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Mansa Musa
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the 10th Mansa 1307-1332, he was the first Muslim rule and also was the most wealthy one.
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Shaman
Definition
People who believe to have spiritual and healing powers
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Kwakiutl
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Native that lived in the central marshland of what is now California
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slash and burn technique
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It is the cutting and burning of plants to clear out a land or give more feral to the soil
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Maya
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a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
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Hunter- Gatherer
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A way a life is when the animal moved they would also move
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Columbia Exchange
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The exchange of plants, animals, debases, and the technology between the Americans and the rest of the world following Columbus voyage.
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Leif Erickson
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Norse Explorer from Iceland. the 1st European the step foot in Americanization not before Columbus.
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Viking
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Pirates/ traders who raided and settle diff rents parts of the northeast Europe
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Orol Tradition
Definition
History passed down by storytellers
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Kinship
Definition
Ties between member of family
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Anasazi
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A Native American who lived in what is now southern Catorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico
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Pueblo
Definition
Native- descendants of the Anasazi- lived in the desert of the southwest
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Aztec
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a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519
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Clan
Definition
Groups of people by blood
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Agricultural Revolution
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A dramatic change in the way people live
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Christoper Columbus
Definition
Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
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Askia Muhammad
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1443- 1538 he strengthened his empire in west Africa
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Division Of Labor
Definition
Assignment of different groups of people based on age, gender, and social class
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Iroquois
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Native , lived in the woodlands of the northeast
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longhouse
Definition
large wooden building with central aisle and living space on both side
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Campinas
Definition
A type of Mesoamerican agriculture used small rectangle areas of fertile land to grow crop in shallow lakes
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Inca
Definition
a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
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Toltec
Definition
Departed central Mexico during Maya define during AD 900
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Olmec
Definition
a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization countered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC
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Nomad
Definition
People who named in search of food and moved place to place without stop.
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