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09/19/2017

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What was the name of the mayan king that ruled for about 70 yrs
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Pakal
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What Happened at wounded knee?
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The soldiers reuned big foot's ppl to kill them by shooting them
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Caravel
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Was a sturdy ship, usedd for long sea voyages battering waves in the open sea
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What was the name of the indian chief at wounded knee?
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big foot
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Kiva
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was the anasazi sipritual center, where women were not allowed
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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the treaty negotiate the land claims of the new world between spain and portugal
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Encomienda system
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Empowered the conquistadors to rule the indians and their towns
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Huitzilopochtli
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War God
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Who were the Maya, and where did they live?
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Mexican ancestors, yucatan, campeche, tabasco, chiapas, nahuatl
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Who were the Mound builders and why did they build the mounds?
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Inhabitants of North America,Society based on equality, to keep dozens of communities. they build the mounds for religious and ceremonial purposes
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Who were the Anazasi and where did they live?
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The anazasi are called the ancient people, they lived in groups of houses that the spanish lated called pueblos. Live in NM, Arizona, Colorado, Utah
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Beringia
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Temporary land bridge that connected Alaska North America and Asia Siberia
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Paleo Indians
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First Ancient American Indians, nomadic, asian origin
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Mexica
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Dominan civilazation, Inhabitants of tenochtitlan, nahuatl, believed in sacrifice, they created the natural medicine, and surgery
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Queen Isabella
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Catholic educated women, called "Isabela la catolica" She started the Spanish Inquisition
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Royal Fifth
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Quinto real or Quinto del rey.
Is an old royal tax that reserves to the monarchy 20% of all precious metals and other commodities, for example, slaves
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Malinali
Definition
"la malinche"
Mother of Mx
Treator
She was the translator of the spaniards
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Cahokia
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Ancient civilazation located in North America, where 30,000 people live and build moulds for their chiefs
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Great Plains Indians
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were hunter gatherers with bows and arrows
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Mestizo
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Offspring between Spaniards and an indian women
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How does cabeza the Vaca describe the "indians of the Rio Grande"?
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as merry and polite people
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How does Bartolome de las casas describe the spaniards treatment of the natives?
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the practice strange cruelty among them. for example slit a man into two, cut off his head at one blow
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What was the purpose of the Ghost Dance?
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Dance to restore the past, begging for peace
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Tribute
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Was what the mexica collected form the conquered tribes. For example goods and candidates for sacrfice
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Archeologist
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Is a professional that tends to study physical objects, clothing, artifacts, baskets, jewelry, etc
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Clovis Point
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Prehistoric tool, named after clovis, New Mexico. Used to hunt mammoths
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Repartimiento
Definition
1549, A reform to began to replace the encomienda. limited the labor an encomendero could command from his indians to 45 days per year, from each adult male
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Protestant reformation
Definition
1517, Is Martin Luther's ideas. He won the simpathy of many catholics who believed that just as the church spoke for god. they ruled for god.
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