Mr. Murry SPSCC Chapter One Key Terms
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- yeoman
- to own enough land to support a family comfortably. Commoners. Family owned.
- Aztec
- mastered the irrigation system and had more than 200,000 people in their civilization
- mestizos
- mixed race of Indians and Spaniards (Indian-Women/Spaniards-Men)
- Mississippian Culture
- last large scale civilization that was located above Rio Grande
- encomiendas
- royal grants that gave Spaniards control over natives
- Prince Henry
- 3rd son to King Joao and Portugal's prince. Financed African exploration. Empire builder in spice trade.
- Queen Elizabeth
- Approved protestant confession of faith using both Lutheran and Calvinism
- Maya
- people who used the number zero and a calendar from astronomy
- Vasco da Gama
- traveled around the African cape and set up spice trade routes sailed to India and came back with spices
- matrilineal
- Inheritance goes from mother to daughter
- Malinche
- Mayan mistress to Cortes who could speak the Aztec
- Hopewell Culture
- Indians who became materialistic
- Ponce de Leon
- found the peninsula of Florida and named it
- Olmec
- the first people to create a civilization in 1100 B.C. and created agriculture
- the Price Revolution
- Major economic upheaval in Europe due to doubling of money supply
- the Spanish Armada
- Phillip sent out 130 ships and 30,000 men to fight England
- predestination
- certain people were chosen for salvation before birth and others were not
- primogeniture
- when a father gives all of their land to their eldest son
- Amerigo Vespucci
- explored the New World in the 1500's and claimed it wasn't Asia
- Caribs, Arwak, and Taino
- American aborigines in Caribbean Columbus met in the New World. 100 years = extinct due to diseases.
- Hispaniola
- one of the islands Christopher Columbus found and first Spanish settlement
- Tenochtitlan
- present day Mexico city
- Beringia
- the land bridge that joined Alaska and Siberia that clovist people traveled across to America
- maize
- cereal corn that was domesticated
- Heran Cortes
- conquered Aztecs and destroyed their civilization
- indulgences
- certificate that pardoned sinners. Martin Luther was against them
- Teotihuacan
- city located in the highlands of Mexico that had more than 100 temples
- Pueblo Peoples
- people who made multi-room structures
- John Calvin and Calvinism
- Stressed humans weakness through Calvinism (French - Huguenots) "Reform"
- Incas
- South American civilization that spread out to 2,000 miles along the Pacific coast
- Columbian Exchange
- western hemisphere goods could be shipped to other continents
- Francisco Pizarro
- led Spanish expedition toward Peru to the Inca and conquered Inca
- Bartholomeu Dias
- rounded Africa's cape and returned back home; named cape "Good Hope" 1488
- Moctezuma
- Aztec king who welcomed Cortez, but them became his captive.
- indenture
- agreement that a person would work for a free trip to America
- Martin Luther and Lutheranism
- German Catholic monk who created Lutheranism (new religion) and Protestant Reformation
- dower
- widows got 1/3 of families goods after husband dies
- King Henry VIII
- placed himself the head of Church of England to be able to get divorced