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Chapter 1 of Preparing for the Advanced Placement Class

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show 50-70 million in Americas in the 1490's  
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show Great Plains Native Americans  
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Pawnee   show
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Pueblo   show
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Adena   show
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show Native American moundbuilding society located east of the Mississippi River  
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show Formed a political confederacy (league of Iroquois) able to withstand attacks from Europeans and other native groups  
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show Great Majority lived in South and Central America; Mayas and Incas were largest groups  
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show 1350-1600; rebirth of classical learning and an outburst of artistic and scientific activity  
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show The compass, gunpowder, shipbuilding, better maps, and the printing press all added incentive for exploration  
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Spain   show
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show Large fleet of ships that was the strongest navy at the time  
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Protestant Reformation   show
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show Economic motives for trade grew out of competition among European countries for India, Africa, and China. Over land trade started in Venice and Constantinople and reached China. Wanted a new trade route not dominated by the Arabs  
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Portugal   show
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Henry the Navigator   show
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show Country in which the majority of people share both a common culture and common political loyalties toward a central government. Monarch were gaining power in the 15th c. and building nation states.  
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Christopher Columbus   show
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show North and South America called this after it was discovered that Columbus hadn't reaches Asia.  
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Amerigo Vespucci   show
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Papal Line of Demarcation   show
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Treaty of Tordesillas   show
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa   show
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show His crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe. Magellan made it to the Philippines.  
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Hernan Cortes   show
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Francisco Pizzaro   show
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Conquistadors   show
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show The king of Spain gave grants of land and Native Americans to individual spa  
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Asiento System   show
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show Sailed for England - Explored the coast of Newfoundland in 1497.  
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Giovanni de Verrazano   show
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Jacques Cartier   show
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Samuel de Champlain   show
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Father Jacques Marquette   show
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Robert de la Salle   show
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Henry Hudson   show
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Joint Stock Company   show
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show Founded 9 of the Franciscan missions on the California coast in the 1780's.  
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Virginia Company   show
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show Est. 1607 - 1st settlers suffered great hardships from indian attacks, famine, and disease. Located in a swampy area on the James River that bred dysentery and mylaria. Many settlers were gentlemen unaccustomed to work and others sought gold.  
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Captain John Smith   show
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show Established the tobacco industry in Jamestown. He and wife Pocahontas developed a new variety of tobacco. Brought financial prosperity to the colony.  
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show Colony under the control of a king or queen.  
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show Wanted to purify the Church of England of remaining Catholic rituals and traditions. Viewed by King James as a threat to his religious and political authority. Group was persecuted. Founded Plymouth and Mass. Bay Colony.  
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show Founded by a group of Sepratists who 1st migrated to Holland and then founded a new colony. The Virginia Co. granted them land. Fewer than 1/2 of the 100 colonists were Sepratists. (1620)  
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show A puritan who wanted to break away from the Chursh of England and form their own church.  
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