Native American and the Mesoamericans
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whatever1234 on January 25, 2010
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These are the different tribes that lived in the Americas during and before European exploration
Includes: -Methods of arrival
-Groups
-MesoAmerican
-Terms from Unit 1 notes
-Etc.
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16 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Paleo Indians | 1st Americans, nomaadic people and early ancestor of the Native Americans |
| Beringia | A supposed method of how the paleo indians crossed over to America; deals with a land bridge from Asia to America |
| 38,000-10,000 BCE | around what time that the paleo indians started showing up in America |
| Agricultural Revolution | the change from hunting to gathering to domestication and farming |
| Mound builders | Native American tribes that built mounds as burial grounds and temples Ex) Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippians |
| Hunter-Gatherer tradition | They stalked what they could kill and gathered plants |
| Horticultural tradition | Cultivation and farming of crops |
| Major Meso-American Tribes | Olmec, Maya, Toltec, Aztecs, and Inca |
| Kinship | family relationships that determined your status and equivilance in society |
| animalistic | religious belief that the most pwerful forces in the world are spiritual, derived from nature |
| Matrilineality | the tracing of descendents from the mothers side |
| Hernan Cortes | the spanish conquerer of the Aztecs, who believed that it was the city of gold b/c of a myth that circulated, and was known as the "light skinned g-d" of the Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizarro | The conquerer of the Incas, known to be a brutal man, and tried to convert the Incan people to Christianity |
| Conquest of the Aztecs | The downfall of the Aztec people caused by Hernan Cortes, disease (small pox), and the death of their leader Montezuma |
| Conquest of the Incas | The downfall of the Inca people caused by Pizarro, who imprisoned their leader only to free him for gold and then kill him |
| Night of Sorrows | the massacre of 600 spaniards by the Aztec people in a revolt against by captured by Cortes's men |
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