7th grade Social Studies EXAM
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 archaeology | the study of ancient people and their lives |
| artifacts | items from ancient people |
| burgress | elected representatives to an assembly |
| charter | a document that gives the holder the right to organize settlments in an area |
| church of england | the anglican church |
| circumnavigate | to sail around the world |
| city-state | an independant city that has its own government |
| civilization | a highly developed culture usualy with organized religions and laws |
| constitution | a formal plan of government |
| federation | a tye of government that links different groups together |
| fundamental orders of connecticut | the first written constitution of America |
| great awakening | 1730s and 1740's religious movement of the puritans in 1630 to massechusetts |
| great migration | a religious movement of the puritans in 1630 to massechusetts |
| hieroglyphics | an ancient form of writin using symbols and pictures to represent words,sounds,and concepts |
| indentured servant | laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain amount of time for a big reward in return |
| line of demarcation | an imaginar line running down the middle of the atlantic ocean from the north pole to the south pole dividing the americas between spain and portugal |
| marcantilism | the theory that a states or nations power depended on his wealth |
| mosque | a muslim house f worship |
| pacifist | a person opposed to the use of violence or war to settle dispues |
| presidio | spanish fort in the americas built to protect mission settlements |
| secular | non religions (anglican church) |
| seperatists | protestants who during the 1600's wanted to leave the anglican church in order to find the other churches |
| theocracy | a form of government in which the society is rules by religious leaders |
| threaty of tordesillas | agreement to move the line of demarcation farther west |
| tribes | a group of people with the same culture |
| Anne Hutchinson | in 1634 she held religious meetings at her house and believed woman should have more power |
| Henry VIII | in 1534 asked to be married but pope clement wouldn't let him |
| Henry Hudson | an english sailor who road on his ship called the Half Moon and he discovered the Hudson Bay in 1609 and also sailed for 2 countries |
| inuits | live in arctic weather and lived in igloos, hunted animals, had to ear warm/ waterproof clothes |
| John Winthrop | in 1630 led 1000 people to a place called Boston he was a puritan who became governer |
| Juan Ponce De Leon | first spanish explorer, in 1513 was trying to find the fountain of youth and never did, he found st. augustine instead. st. augustine was the firt spanish settlement |
| Peter Stuyvesant | the governer of new amsterdam and alot of people hated him for his high taxes and h surrended in battle |
| Pope Clement VII | refused Henry VIII's request to declare his marriage invalid in1534 |
| Roger Willians | recieved a charter in 1644 and was a minister, moved poeple to Rhode Island so they could worship freely |
| Chichen Itza | pyramid in mexico which the sun hits twice a year to make it look like a snake |
| Machu Piccu | on the top/side of a mountain in peru |
| New Netherland | became new york (dutch colony) |
| New Amsterdam | main city in new netherland and bcame new york city |
| Rhode island Colony | state in the northeastern united states, one of the original states |
| french | became a royal colony in 1663 founded in quebec in 1608. mainly concerned with fishing and furs for trade |
| spanish | still controlled most of mexico, the carribean, and central and south america |
| aztects | created the waterways |
| mayans | created a 365 day calandar by dtufying the stars, moon, and sky (astronomy) |
| incas | cut terraces or broad platforms into steep slopes in order to plant crops |
| Jamestown | until 1640 african laborers in Jamestown were free and even owned property. William tucker firt africn american colonies was a free man |
| Plymouth | was a chance for the putitans to create a new society in america , a society based on the bible and their own beliefs |
| how the aztecs,incas, and mayans conserved blood | by giving blood to the sun god |
| stars | studied by aztec priest and the moon to create a complex calender |
| aztec culture/religion | centuries after the fall of the mayans, a group of hunters called the aztecs wondered through central mexico searching for a permanant home, In 1325 they came upon an island in lake texcoco, today part of exico city. There the aztec saw a sign: an eagle sitting on a cactus with a snake in its beak. That meant that the island was meant to be their home. They praised the great powerful sun gods |
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