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Hist. Terms
Chapters 1,2,3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| matrilineal | tracing descent and property and political rights through the mother |
| Mesoamerica | the middle region bridging the great land masses of South and North America |
| Muslim | a person believing in the religion of Islam,which began in the seventh century and spread throughout the Middle East and northern Africa and eventually to Asia and Europe in succeeding centuries(Muslims,or Moslems,were sometimes called Moors by the Euros) |
| Pre-Columbian era | the period of history before Columbus in which Native Americans Indian cultures lived in the Americas undiscovered-and unaffected-by Europeans |
| Renaissance | period of cultural rebirth in Europe(fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) |
| Columbian Exchange | most significant geographical rearrangement of plant and animal life between Europe and the Americas with profound environmental and human consequences |
| conquistador | any of the sixteenth century Spanish conquerors of Mexico, Peru, etc. |
| Middle Passage | the journey during the transatlantic slave trade from Africa to the Americas and Europe |
| Moors | any of a Muslim people living chiefly in Northwest Africa |
| Protestant Reformation | period in Europe in the sixteenth century of protest against the Roman Catholic church and the creation of new (protestant) religious institutions |
| antinomianism | an interpretation of Puritan doctrine associated with Anne Hucthinson that stressed mystical elements in God's grace and diverged from Orthodox Puritan views on salvation |
| genocide | the willed extermination of a race or ethnic group by another |
| Glorious Revoltion | the English revolution of 1688 that replaced James II with William and Mary; the revolution was based on the rejection of the "divine right" of kings and was a victory for protestants, parliamentary power, and the English merchant and gentry class |
| indentured servants | European migrants, usually young and single, who entered into work contracts for a specified period of yeas in exchange for free passage to the New World and sometimes a promise of land at the end of the contract |
| magistrates | secular, civil leaders in Massachusetts Bay, usually not ministers |
| Pilgrims | a radical separatist group of English Protestants who settled at Plymouth in order to be left alone to lead a pure and primitive life |
| proprietors | prominent Englishmen to whom the king granted vast areas of land in the New World |
| Puritans | English Protestants who wished not only to purify the Church of England but also to reform English society; they came to New England to set up a model community as an example to England |
| Society of Friends(Quakers) | a visionary radical sect,much persecuted,whose members believed in,among other things,an inner lite that brought them close 2 God,equality in religious and social life,pacifism,and defiance of authority when it denied their right 2 practice their religion |
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