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APUSH Period 1 Vocab
APUSH Period 1 Vocab- Mrs. Bush MND
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tribute (paying of) | something brought to Tenochtitlan along with trade (gold, exotic bird feathers, gold, textiles, turquoise, obsidian, and cacao) |
| animism | a belief system held by the Native Americans which involved believing that the natural world (the sun, wind, stones, and animals) were animated by spiritual forces |
| primogeniture | a practice entailing a father in a patriarchal family, bestowing all his land on their eldest son; this practice left the younger children out in the cold |
| Reniassance | a time period of great artistic and creative development in Italy |
| Crusades | a series of battles between 1096-1291, where Christian armies fought to reverse the Muslim advances in Europe and to win back the Holy Land |
| Protestant Reformation | a reform movement that began in 1517; caused by the critiques of Martin Luther and this reformation caused a major schism in the Catholic Church (this created the Protestant religion) |
| Martin Luther | a German monk and professor; he wrote Ninety-five Theses, a book that condemned the Catholic Church for corrupt practices; his book caused the Protestant Reformation. |
| Christopher Columbus | a Spanish mariner; he persuaded the king and queen of Spain to sponsor his journey to Asia in 1492; he arrived six weeks later in what he thought was Asia and dubbed his journey a success |
| Montezuma | the ruler of the Tenochtitlan people in the Yucatan peninsula; he was captured by Cortez and his men in 1521 |
| Matriarchy | females govern the family- power was passed down from woman to woman; women were influential in local government (this is how many Native American families worked) |
| Patriarchy | males govern the family- property and social identity is passed down in male family lines; controlled the lives of all the members of the family (wife + children) ; this is how the Europeans ran families |
| Republic | states that have no monarch or prince but are instead governed by representatives of the people |
| heresy | doctrines that were inconsistent with what was taught by the Church |
| predestination | the idea preached by John Calvin that some people were born to be sent to heaven and all the rest were pre-determined to eternal damnation |
| Counter-Reformation | caused by the Protestant Reformation; the counter-reformation sought changes within the Catholic Church- created new missionary and monastic orders like the Jesuits |
| Vasco da Gama | a sailor who experimented with winds and currents, allowing his ships to voyage into the Atlantic Ocean |
| Hernan Cortez | a Spanish explorer who led an expedition (600 men) to the Yucatan peninsula; they toppled the Aztec Empire in 1521 |
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