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Honors American History
Chapters 1-3
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History
8th Grade
09/08/2008

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Leif Eriksson
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1st European to land on North America...Viking
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Christopher Columbus
Definition
Discovered the New World
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Bartolomeu Diaz
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1st person to sail around the top of Africa
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Vasco da Gama
Definition
1st explorer to sail to India
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Pedro Cabral
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Discovers Brazil to claim it for Portugual (part of Columbia)
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John Cabot
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1st explorer to claim land for England
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Sailed to South America...America named after him
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Vasco de Balboa
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Discovered the Pacific Ocean
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Ferdinand Magellan
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1st person to sail around the world...killed in Pacific
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Jacques Cartier
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Claimed part of Canada for Quebec...Sailed down Saint Lawrence
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Samuel de Champlain
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Followed Carter...Sailed to Great Lakes
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Henry Hudson
Definition
New York...Hudson River
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Hernando Cortes/Cortez
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Moctezuma(leader of aztecs)killed in battle...Tenochitlan(Mexico City)
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Francisco Pizarro
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Peru...Has the King bring him gold and treasure and then kills him
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Paleo Indians
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The first hunter-gatherer people to come to North America during the last Ice Age
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Hunter-Gatherer
Definition
Hunt animals and Gather plants for their needs
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Migration
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Movement of on group from one area to another
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Maize
Definition
Corn
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Society
Definition
Group of people who live together and share a culture
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Culture
Definition
Common values and traditions of a society(language, government, family relationships)
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Iroquois
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Indians who settled in Western Pennsylvania
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Circumnavigate
Definition
Sail completely around the world
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Conquistadors
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Spanish soliders and explorers who led military expiditions in the Americas and captured land from Spain
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Aztecs
Definition
Mexico
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Mayans
Definition
Peru
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Incas
Definition
Central America/Mexico
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Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
Definition
Columbus's 3 ships
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First Americans
(who were they
where from
how get here
why come
how survive)
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Paelo Indians
Asia
Crossed Bering Strait
For food
Hunter-Gatherers
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Columbian Exchange
Definition
The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases
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Agrian Society
Definition
Were able to settle in one place for a long time
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