AP US History Flashcards American Pagent Chapter 1
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Terms | Definitions |
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 South America:A: Incas: B: Mayans: | A: Located in Peru. Staple food is maize. Advanced agricultural practices. B:Central America |
| C: Aztecs: | C: Mexico, no large animals like oxen or horses. Built big cities w/ commerce. Mathematicians have accurate astronomical observations. Human sacrifices were common to please their gods. Most humans sacrificed were prisoners of war and their hearts were usually cut out. There is a legend that 5,000 people were sacrificed for the crowning celebration of a new chieftan once. |
| D: Maize | D: Originated in Mexico later called Indian corn. Was used to feed big populations. One time 20 million Mexicans. Turned hunting groups into agricultural villagers. Later staple crop for Incas, Aztecs and later for the Pueblos, Native Americans in North America |
| Southwest: A: Pueblo Culture: B: Cahokia: C: Chaco Cahyon | A: Corn Planting reached in 2000BCE. Helped form Pueblo Culture. From Rio Grande, had intricate irrigation systems of water to cornfields B:Mississippian Supplement near present day St. Louis. Home to 25000 peoplem elaborate pueblo: 600 connected rooms C: In modern day New Mexico.. Extra: Mtn Builders in Ohio also had a large settlement. Around 1300 BCE decline in all civilizations because of drought |
| Southeastern Atlantic: A: Three sister farming B:Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee | A: Beans growing up corn stocks and squash grew on planting hills where they soaked up water from the soil. B: Tahnks to diet from "three sister farming" these three native groups in North America had the highest populated area on the continent |
| Northeast: A: Iroquois Confederacy: | A: In Northeastern woodlands. Founded by leader Hiawatha in 16th century. closest North American empire to compare to the ones in South America (Mexico, Peru). Political and organizational skills helped to have military alliances with Native Americans and Europeans. |
| B: Matrillnear Cultures: | B: Power and possessions passed down the female side of the family Extra: Natives in North America were more scattered. More settled Native American groups hao women tend crops, men fished, gathered fuel + cleared fields for crops. This lifestyle had more women with authority. Native Americans honored physical world, and nature was connected spiritually to the Native Americans. Sometimes set intentional forest fires tfor game hunting such as deer. Europeans contrasted because they believed they were superior ver the Earth |
| Portugese: A: Caravel B: Timbuktu C: Plantation Economy: | A: A ship that could sail more closely into the wind B: In West Africa. There was an Islamic University that attracted scholars from Europe and other areas of the world C: Large commercial agricultural system that exploited slave labor to make products more cheaply |
| D: Early slave trade/ Portugese contribution | D: Slave trade became increasingly in demand 40,000 were brought to the sugar islands in the last part of 15th century. Millions of African Americans became slaves after the discovery of the Americas. Portugese founded plantations which were worked on by slaves. Plantations shaped the beginning of the New World economy |
| Spain: A: Ferdinand and Isabella B: Mariner's Compass C: Christopher Columbus | A: Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile were married and united the two groups both led in Spain. B: Borrowed idea from Arabs. Helped get rid of some fears of sea travel C: Christopher Columbus: Italian seafarer who was given three strong ships and after being at sea for 6 weeks with no land in sight, the Bahamas were spotted by his crew. The new world was first discovered by the Europeans October 12, 1492. Intended to find a new path to the Indies, failure made him famous |
| D: Columbian Exchange | D: The Exchange of goods and diseases between the old world, new world and Africa. Gold, silver,corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate and syphilis was brought from the new world to the old world. Wheat sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs was brought from the old world to the new world. Slave labor was sent from Africa to the new world. In addition to goods and animals brought from the old world to the new world, diseases such as smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria and scarlet fever were brought from the old world's ships to the new world. |
| E: Foodstuffs/Impact F: Disease impact on native population in America's | E: The Native Americans lived off of foods such as maize, beans, tomatoes and these foods were given to the Europeans to bring back to the old world which helped the increase of African American's population. F: The diseases that were brought over from the Old World to the New World devastated the Native American's population because they were not seen for so long, so when they were reintroduced, the Native Americans could not fight off the diseases. In 50 years the Taino natives' population in Hispanola decreased from 1 million to 200 people. 90% of Native Americans died after Christopher Columbus "discovered" the new world |
| Spanish Conquistadors A: Treaty of Tordesillas B: Balboa C: Magellan | A: A document that divided the New World between Spain and Portugal B:Vasco Nuñez Balboa discoverer of the Pacific Ocean in 1513 C: Ferdinand Magellan started in Spain in 1519 with five small ships he went around the tip of South America, where he was eventually killed by people living on the Philippines. After this dangerous journey with many storms only one of the five ships returned. First Circumnavigation of the globe. |
| D: Ponce de Leon E: Coronado | D: Juan Ponce de Leon explored Flordia, which he first believed was an island. He was killed with a bow and arrow by native americans in the area while searching for gold and the fountain of youth E: 1540-1542 Francisco Coronado tried to find the golden cities, which was just adobe pueblos. Went through Arizona, New Mexico and Kansas and along the way discovered the Grand Canyan and Bison |
| F: Hernando de Soto G: Pizarro | F: Took on a gold expedition from 1539-1542. went through Flordia's marshes and pine forests to the Mississippi River north of the Arkansas River. Mistraeated Natives there with dog collars and dogs. He later died of fever and wounds. His troops later buried his body to protect him from the Natives he attacked. G: Francisco Pizarro defeated the incas in 1532 and added lots of treasure to the Spanish wealth |
| H: Ecomienda System I: Cortes | H: The government now had the power to give The Natives colonists in so they could be punished I: 1519 hernan Cortes sailed from Cuba with 16 horses and 700 men on 11 ships and rescued a Spanish castaway who was enslaved for years by Mayan speaking Native Americans on the Island of Cozumel of the Yucatan Penninsula. Later on he picked up aIndian slave naned Malinche who spoke Mayan and Nahuatl. Which was useful for communicating with other natives in Central America |
| J: Moctezuma K: Mestizos | J: Moctezuma was the Aztec chieftan and sent many gifts to the spanish ships led by Hernan Cortez. He treated Cortez and his crew generously at first then, their hunger for power and gold increased, their welcome soon was worn out. Moctezuma led the Aztecs in a battle vs The Spanish on June 30, 1520 on a night later called noche triste. The Spanish wree forced to retreat but in Auguest 13 1951, the Spanish led by Cortes came back and fought the Aztecs and eventually diseases overwhelmed the Aztecs and they were defeated K: People of mixed Native American and European descent |
| L1: Colonial New Mexico: Roman Catholic Mission L2: Colonial New Mexico: Pope's rebellion | L1: L2: |
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