Question | Answer |
Clovis | First civilization and able to build boats. |
Archaic | 8000 BCE. Larger mammals became extinct. Used spears, bows and arrows, nets, and traps. (Incas:Mexico) |
Tenochtitlan: greatest city with 100,000 people. Created aqueducts, schools, military, medicine, and slave workforce. Payed taxes with crops/animals. Human sacrifices and living hearts | 100,000
Aqueducts, schools, military, medicine, and slaves
Taxes paid with crops/animals
Sacrifices and human hearts |
Cahokia | St. Louis, 1200 CE,
10,000
Earth mounds, combined farming and hunting
Moved around
Wall to protect themselves |
Black death | 1347-53
1/3 of Europe died |
Christopher columbus | Isabel/ferdinand
Brought back natives
Religious |
Conquistadors | Went around converting natives |
Mestizos | Taught Spanish and Portugal and created hybrid languages
Became a mixed race |
Matrilneal | Traced through hereditary.
Property from mom
Husband to wife
Women were dominant |
Mercantilism | Wanted to bring wealth to nation
Helped unemployment and poverty |
Protestant reform | 1517,Martin Luther
Salvation by good works
God communicates through clergy/pope |
Puritans | Purified the church |
Seperatlisits | Simplify, reduce Bishop power, and reform local clergy |
Roanoke | 1585 |
Hudson | Fur trade in new york |
Jamestown | 1607
Unsure about colonizing |
Courier de bois | Important fur traders |