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Cassie-pd. 2-Unit 1
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History
8th Grade
09/15/2011

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How did humans reach the americas?
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beringia
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Southeast
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houses made of woven trees, built towns surrounding large mounds
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Great Basin
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temporary shelters made of willow poles, extreeme temperatures
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east woodlands
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Winters cold, summer cool, large sturdy log houses
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North West Coast
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sturdy wooden houses, caught salmon
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Southwest
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many different environments, some nomadic groups, made adobe homes
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California
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winter rains, summer hot and dry, depended on salmon
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plateau
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lots of mountains, lived in villages all year round (partly underground)relied on fish and camas
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Great Plains
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BUFFALO. always followed buffalo around, tipis
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earliest known civilization
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olmec
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why were pilgrims able to survive
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the native americans helped them, also the mayflower compact.
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3 reasons why 1492 was such a great year for spain
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threw muslims out, ended requonquista, and threw out jews
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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came to florida in 1513
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hernando cortez
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conquored aztecs
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Hernando De Soto
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explored Fl to MS
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Fransisco coronado
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went to AZ, NM, and grand canyon for G-O-L-D
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Francisco Pizzaro
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Conquored Incas
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Magellan
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his crew circles the globe, started with 250, came back with 18
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What was the colombian exchange?
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The exchanging of crops and such between europe and america.
europe to america: disease, horses, coffee, peaches, pigs
America to Europe:squash, corn, tobacco, peppers, cacao
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Jamestown challenges
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it was swampy, no gold, little food, but TOBACCO saved them.
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Bartoleme la Casas
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he was a priest that started the african slave trade
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Mayflower Compact
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Had to be rules
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House of burgesses
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1st government in virginia
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Quipu
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a device made of cords w/ knots used by the incas to keep records
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Adobe
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Sun dried bricks
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Pueblos
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Town in spanish colonies and anazi village
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Pit houses
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House in arctic reason dug into the ground
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Kachinas
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Masked dancers at religous cerimonies of the south west indians
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Presidos
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fort where soldiers lived in spanish colonies
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Missions
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religous settlement run by catholic priests and friars
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Encomiendas
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land granted to spanish settlers that included the right to demand labor of taxes
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Plantation
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large estate farmed by many workers
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Mesitos
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spains american colonies- spanish and indian backround
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peninsulares
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person from spain who holds a position of high power
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creoles
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people born in spains american colonies to spanish parents
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charter
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legal document giving rights to a person to a company
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burgesses
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representative to the colonial virginia governement
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pilgrims
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in the 1600s, english settlers who sought religous freedom in the americas
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