APUSH: Chapter 1 (Colliding Worlds 1450-1600) Vocab
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| Tribute | Money paid by one country to another in return for protection
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| Matriarchy | A society ruled or controlled by women
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| Animism | The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits/conscious lives
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| Patriarchy | A form of social organization in which males dominate females
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| primogeniture | Right of inheritance belongs to the eldest son
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| peasants | people who worked the land or served the nobles
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| republic | a form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting
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| Civic humanism | humanism with the added belief that one must be an active and contributing member to ones society
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| renaissance | "rebirth"; following the middle ages, a movement that is centered on the revival of interests in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
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| Guilds | association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to protect their economic interests
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| Christianity | a monotheistic religion based on the person and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices.
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| Heresy | religious beliefs that is contrary to the official teachings of the church
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| Islam | A religion based off the teaching of the prophet Mohammed which stresses the belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims
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| Crusades | A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European christians to free the holy lands from muslim rule
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| predestination | Calvin's religious theory that God has already planned out a person's life
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| protestant reformation | A religious movement in the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the roman catholic church and resulted in the creation of protestant churches
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| counter reformation | catholic churches attempt to to stop the protestant movement and to strengthen the catholic church
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| trans-saharan trade | trade between peoples north and south of the sahara
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| Reconquista | the effort by christian leaders to drive the muslims out of spain, lasting from the 1100s until 1492
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| Hiawatha | A mohawk leader who called members of five groups together forming the iroquis confederacy in 1570
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| martin luther | a German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices
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| Mansa Musa | Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East.
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| Vasco de Gma (portugal) | Discovered a route to India for Portugal by s a was very profitable for both the country and sailor with his cargo
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| Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
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| Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
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| Moctezuma | Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes.
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| Pedro Alvarez Cabral | Portuguese leader of an expedition to India; blown off course in 1500 and landed in Brazil
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