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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Maya | a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayan peoples |
| Aztec | a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519 |
| Inca | a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s |
| pueblo | a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States |
| Iroquois | a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois peoples |
| Songhai | a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai people in Mali and Niger |
| prince Henry | Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration |
| renaissance | the revival of learning and culture |
| treaty of Toresillas | the pope set up a dividing line called the line of demarcation, this line confimed Portugal's right to control the rought around Africa to the India, and it also confirmed spain's claim to the new land of America |
| colonization | the act of colonizing |
| anasazi | a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings |
| hopewell | A mound builder society that was centered in the Ohio River Valley from about 200 B.C to AD 400 |
| mississippian | a resident of Mississippi |
| islam | the religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life |
| savannah | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions |
| Kongo | the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola |
| crusades | 1096 Christian Europe aim to reclaim Jerusalem and aid they Byzantines; 1st success and the rest a failure; weakens the Byzantines; opens up trade |
| reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches |
| Colombian exchange | The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) |
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