APUSH CH1 Terms
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ClaireHirsch on September 5, 2012
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terms to know in first chapter of "The American Pageant"
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Canadian Shield | zone under-girded by ancient rock; first part of North American land to emerge above sealevel |
| Nation-state | dense concentrations of population |
| Cahokia | Mississippian settlement of Anasazis |
| Three-Sister Farming | maize, beans, squash grown together to maximize yields |
| Christian Crusaders | save world from Muslim control |
| Middlemen | dealers; operate between suppliers and final retail merchants |
| Caravel | ship that could more easily sail against wind; made by Portuguese |
| Plantation | commercial agriculture using slave-labor |
| Columbian Exchange | "discovery" of America |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Spanish claim to discovery of America |
| Conquistadores | conquerors; spread across Caribbean |
| Vasco Nuñez Balboa | claimed Panama for Spain, 1513 |
| Magellan | took 5 small ships from Spain to Philippines, 1519; completed first circumnavigation of the globe |
| Francisco Pizarro | destroyed Incan city, 1532 |
| Capitalism | economic system fueled by Old World utilization of New World silver and gold |
| Encomienda | Christianized slavery technique used to subdue early Mexican civilizations |
| Noche Triste | June 30, 1520; Aztec attack on Spaniards |
| Surrender of Aztecs | August 13, 1521 |
| Mesitzos | people of mixed Indian / European heritage |
| Battle of Acoma | 1599; Spanish attack on Pueblo in Rio Grande Valley; led by Don Juan de Oñate |
| Popé's Rebellion | Indians drove Roman Catholic missionaries out of New Mexico, 1680 |
| Black Legend | false concept that Spaniards only tortured and butchered Indians, stole gold; also grafted their culture, laws, religion and language to adapt to new people |
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