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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Kiva | Underground room for prayer used by Pueblo |
| Travois | sled used to carry killed game by the Plains Indians |
| Taboggan | Sled used by Algonquin |
| Snowshoes | Snow gear used by Algonquin |
| Potlaches | feasts where gifts were passed out |
| Caravel | ship that was a prototype of the Yankee Clipper |
| Caravel | made by Prince Henry was a smaller ship, could sail into the wind with more sails |
| Marine | Pacific NW,mild climate, Alaska to N.California |
| Artic | extremely cold climate/long winters/short summers |
| desert | dry, doesnt support growth of much |
| Steppe | dry, doesnt support the growth of trees |
| Mediterranean | Southern California climate/mild, moist winters |
| Mercator | true shape, distorted far from equator |
| Robinson | best flat map, correct sizes and shapes |
| Mollweide | distorted shapes |
| Pyramid of the Sun | Pyramid where Aztecs sacrificed to Huizipochtali |
| Interrupted | Split, difficult to distinguish size and shape |
| Globe | most accurate of all map projections |
| Location | exact location(latitude, longitude) |
| Place | description or feature of a location |
| Interaction | how people interact with their surroundings or how a place influences people |
| Movement | most important theme of geography, exchange of ideas |
| Region | an area united in similar characteristics |
| Geography | the study of people, the environment, and resources |
| History | the study of the past, account of what happens in the lives of different people |
| Humid Subtropical | Southeastern United States, warm,tobacco,sugar, rice, rainfall even |
| Humid Continental | 1/4 of the U.S. climate, Michigan's climate, winter is cold summers are warm |
| Archaeologists | scientists that analyze and find artifacts left behind from the past |
| Anthropologists | scientists who studied artifacts and objects to determine how people lived |
| Geologists | studied fossils, evidence of plant and animal life |
| Astrolabe | find altitude of stars, helped captain fix location, helped Arabs get across desert at night |
| Quadrant | used to take bearings from the sun and stars and plot ship's point |
| Artisan | those who had skills other did not have in a feudal society |
| Chasquis | advanced system of relaying messages, contains runners placed at certain stations |
| manor | self sufficient farming estate owned by lords |
| Great sun | highest class within Muskegon |
| Sun | below Great Sun Class |
| Honored People/Nobles | below sun class |
| Stinkards | lowest class within Muskegon society |
| Shrelings | English nickname for the Eskimos |
| Wretched Dwarf | Nickname for eskimos |
| Sachems | 5 tribes, 50 reps. regulated regulations among tribe |
| Matrilineal Society | power is in the Mother's family, heritage traced back through mothers family |
| Iroquois League | Mohawk, Oneida, Onodaga, Seneca, Cayuga |
| Teepee | where Plains indians lived |
| Igloo | homes of the Eskimos |
| Pictograms | used by the Anasazi to express ideas about life |
| Nomads | Great basin indians and Eskimos |
| Onate | discovered the South Sea |
| Father Ramirez | sent from Spain to the Americas Converted Acamas to Christianity carried crucifix into their city |
| Balboa | claimed everything west of the Pacific in the name of Spain, took his troops through Panama |
| Dikawatha | Huron religious leader |
| Hiawatha | Mohawk chief |
| Vasco Da Gama | discovered an all water route to Asia |
| Bartholoew Dias | discovered Cape of Good Hope, southern most tip of Africa |
| Prince Henry | Created Navigation schools in Sagres, Portugal, sent expeditions for Gold in Africa to be brought back to his castle in Portugal |
| Kublai Khan | emperor of China visited by Marco Polo |
| Huizilopochtoli | Aztec sun god |
| Marco Polo | Venetian Merchant who traveled to China and stayed there for 7 years |
| Eskimos | used all animal parts when killing, lived in artic climate, nomadic |
| NW Coast Indians | Had potlaches, status was based on possessions |
| Anasazi | cliff dwellers, created irrigation channels and canals to get water, drew pictograms |
| Pueblo | lived in adobe huts, created kivas, cities had a planned design, large squares or circles in center |
| Great Basin Indians | nomads, lived in extreme heat |
| Plains Indians | stereotypical Indians, travois, teepees, Albino Buffalo was their God |
| Navajo | believed a person's life should be in harmony with the universe |
| Algonquin | tobaggons, canoes, and snowshoes |
| Iroquois | sachems, started the _______ League to end blood shed and for defense |
| Muskegon | had the caste system of Great Sun, Sun, honored people, and stinkards |
| Mayans | Priest was main voice, had massive pyramids, had massive cities with 40,000 people, conquered by the Aztec |
| Aztec | Most advanced tribe |
| Aztec | Had subdivisions, paved streets, sacrificed 12-13 year old girls, had calendars could predict eclipses |
| Incas | were amazing engineers that used earthquake bricks |
| Incas | Had a standing draft army, highways |
| Cuzco | Incan Capital |
| Sea of the South | Discovered by Onate |
| City of the Sky | city of the Acamas |
| Santa Fe | Capital discovered in New Mexico by Balboa |
| Tenochtitlan | Aztec Capital |
| NW Pacific Coacst | mild, moist climate |
| NW Pacific Coast | Had everything such as fish lumber, hunting, farming. Perfect for NW Coast Indians |
| Intermountain Region | Harsh climate between Coastal Mountains and Rocky Mountains |
| Rocky Mountains | Alaska through Canada and to the rest of the US, thinly populated |
| Central Plains | Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa; are industrialized |
| Great Plains | Montana, SD, ND |
| Canadian Shield | Artic Circle to Great Lakes, fed main cities, iron, ore, coal, St. Lawrence Seaway |
| App Mountains | Newfoundland to Alabama, deterred settlers in exploration of Americas |
| App Mountains | Hudson and Shenandoah Valleys |
| Coastal Plains | Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Atlantic in North, Gulf of Mexico in the South |
| Sagres, Portugal | Where Prince Henry's navigation school was located |
| Cape of Good Hope | southernmost tip of Africa |
| India | reached by Vasco Da Gama |
| Vineland | discovered by Leif Ericson |
| Piedmont | rolling land at the base of a mountain |
| Continental Divide | mountain ridge that separates two river flowing in opposite direction on an equator |
| Fall line | place where water usually drops off a plateau or mountain into coastal plains, forms waterfalls |
| Foothills | low hills at the bottom of a mountain |
| Tributary | a small river or stream that flows into a larger river |
| Plain | broad area of level land that is generally close to sea |
| Praire | little or no trees, natural grasslands |
| Cortes | Conquered Aztecs for Spain |
| Pizarro | Conquered Incas for Spain |
| Mendoza | 1st viceroy |
| Father Bartolome de La Casas | Spanish priest who suggested the use of slaves not Indians for labor |
| Machiavelli | Italian philosopher |
| Asiola | Seminole chief |
| Champlain | French explorer who sided with the Algonquin, Iroquois now an enemy of French as a result |
| Martin Luther | German Reformer, disgusted with indulgences and other church laws |
| 95 theses | Document written by Martin Luther that renounced the church and all of the bad stuff happening with the church |
| Johan Tetzel | argued with Martin Luther, representative of the pope |
| Henry VIII | "Defender of the Faith" |
| Henry VIII | Wrote Defense of Seven Sacraments against Martin Luther.. then went against the pope because of annulment issue |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | caravel, sent expeditions to Africa |
| John Cabot | sailed for England, sailed near Newfoundland looking for the NW passage |
| Henry Hudson | discovered Hudson bay, founded New Amsterdam |
| Henry Hudson | found fertile farming land, crew mutinied him and left him in hudson bay on a row boat after asking government for works |
| Queen Isabella | Reach Indies and the wealth there sponsored expeditions of Columbus |
| Hernando de Soto | found treasure and discovered Mississippi River |
| Christopher Columbus | founded Navidad on Hispanola |
| Ferdinand Magellan | sailed the world |
| Jolliet and Marquette | created a New France in N.A, solidified french colonies in America |
| Jacques Cartier | found treasure in Canada and explored St. Lawrence Seaway |
| Queen Elizabeth | daughter of Henry, supported sea dogs John Hawkins and Francis drake, defeated Spanish Armada |
| Zwigli | reformer in Sweden |
| Calvin | reformer in England |
| John Hawkins | sea dogs, ransacked Spanish ships, illicit slave trade |
| Sir Francis Drake | sea dog, stole a years worth of gold in Peru, knighted by Elizabeth, completed 2 circumnavigations of the globe |
| Phillip II of Spain | had largest strongest Navy in Spanish Armada and he fought in the english Channel |
| Sir Humphrey Gilbert | storm killed him |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | established Roanoke, 3 expeditions to Roanoke Island, beheaded in Middle Temple |
| John Rolfe | cultivated tobacco and stimulated colonial economy |
| John Rolfe | married Pocahontas |
| Sir William Berkeley | During Bacon's Rebellion he would not support those farming outside Jamestown despite multiple Indian attacks |
| Captain John Smith | Leader of Jamestown |
| Captain John Smith | Established the no work=no food policy which saved Jamestown |
| Christopher Jones | incompetent captain of Mayflower |
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