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Chapter 1 Sections 1-4

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Chapter 1 Terms and Names
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Nomadic   Moving from place to place in search of food  
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Aztec   Settled in the Valley of Mexico in the 1200s and developed a sophisticated civilization  
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Anasazi   North American group who intriduced crops into the arid deserts of the southwest  
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Pueblo   A descendent tribe of the Anasazi and Hohokam who lived in multi-story houses made of stone and adobe, and grew maize, beans, melons, and squash  
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Iroquois   A tribe from the northwest who hunted fish and game, such as wild turkeys, dear, and bear.  
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Benin   Members of a forest kingdom along the southern coast who dominated a large region around the Niger Delta.  
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Kongo   A kingdom who rose to power on the lower Congo (Zaire) River in West Central Africa  
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Islam   A monotheistic religion founded in Arabia in 622 by the prophet Mohamma  
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Christianity   A religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus  
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Reformation   A movement to change church practices and to challenge the authoriy of the pope  
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Renaissance   A cultural awakening in Europe during the 1400s, a term meaning "rebirth" of the kind of interest in the physical world that had characterized ancient Greece and Rome  
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Christopher Columbus   An Italian mariner who set out on August 3, 1942 on an expedition to find a route to Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean  
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Taino   A group of people Christopher Columbus encountered when he reached land in October of 1492; a name meaning "noble ones"  
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Treaty of Tordesillas   In 1494, Spain and Portugal signed the treaty in an agreement to divide the Western Hemisphere between them  
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Columbian Exchange   Trade from the Americas to Europe and Africa where they brought back livestock, grains, fruit, and coffee  
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Conquistador   Spanish explorers who were lured by the prospect of vast lands filled with gold and silver; they conquered much of the Americas  
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Hernando Cortes   Landing in Mexico 1519, he learned the vast and wealthy Aztec empire in the region's interior  
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Montezuma   An Aztec emperor who agreed to give Hernando Cortes a share of the empires existing supply  
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Mestizo   A person of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage  
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Enconmienda   A labor system in which natives famed, ranched or mined for Spanish landlords, who received the rights to their labor from Spanish authorities  
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New Spain   In 1532, it included Mexico and what is now Guatemala  
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New Mexico   1609-1610 Spain's northern holdings controlled by Pedro Peralta  
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John Smith   In 1606, he offered his services as a colonist to the Virginia Company and went on to steer Jamestown through its beginning.  
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Jamestown   In April of 1607, a settlement established up the river leading into the Chesapeake Bay where settlers built a fort  
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Joint-Stock Companies   English colonies were founded by this type of investment, where several investors would pool their wealth in support of a given colony.  
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Indentured Servant   People who came from Europe to North American to work in exchange for payment of their food and passage  
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Puritan   A religious group who felt that the Church of England had too much Catholic ritual and they wanted to purify the church.  
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John Winthrop   A Puritan leader who encouraged Puritans to band together  
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King Philip's War   Spring of 1675 where Native Americans burned outlying settlements throught New England  
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William Penn   King Charles gave a piece of land called "Pennsylvania" to him as remembrance for William's father.  
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Quaker   A protestant sect that held services without formal ministers  
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Mercantilism   A nation could increase its wealth and power by obtaining as much gold and silver as possible or by establishing a favorable balance of trade.  
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Navigation Acts   Laws intented to tighted control of colonial trade  
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Triangular Trade   A transatlantic trading network in which goods and enslaved people were exchanged across the ocean  
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Middle Passage   The middle leg of the transatlantic trade triangle  
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Enlightenment   A time period when philosophers valued reason and scientific methods  
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Benjamin Franklin   A founding father who embraced the ideas of the Enlightenment  
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Great Awakening   A series of religious revivals aimed at restoring the intensity and dedication of the early Puritan church.  
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Jonathan Edwards   A clergy who hoped to revive the fervor of the original Puritan vision  
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French and Indian Wars   1754 a conflict between the French and British in the colonies  
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William Pitt   A politican who was chosen to run the government of the colony by King George II  
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Pontiac   An Ottawa tribe leader who captured eight British forts in the Ohio Valley  
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Proclamation of 1763   Established a a Proclamation Line along the Appalachians, which the colonists were not allowed to cross  
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