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| 7298176527 | Bering Land Bridge | The land that connected Alaska and Siberia thousands of years ago, allowing passage into what is now North America. Significance: | 0 | |
| 7298176528 | Anasazi | Meaning "ancient ones," lived in modern day New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado nearly 700 years before Columbus. Significance: | 1 | |
| 7298176529 | Pueblo | American Indian settlements of the southwestern US, especially consisting of multistoried adobe houses built by the Pueblo people Significance: | 2 | |
| 7298176530 | Iroquois Confederacy | confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across the northeast that during the 17th and 18th centuries played an important role in the struggle between the French and British for control of North America. Significance: | 3 | |
| 7298176531 | Constantinople | An important economic and cultural hub in Europe that was vital to trade. Significance: | 4 | |
| 7298176532 | Encomienda System | in colonial Spanish America, legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies.Spanish Landlords received the rights to the Natives Labor from Spanish Authority Significance: It was some resemblance of a "government" in the new world. | 5 | |
| 7298176533 | Christopher Columbus | Italian Explorer and "discoverer" of the new world ('Merica) Significance: Found the New World for Spain in 1492 |  | 6 |
| 7298176534 | Silk Road | An ancient trade route between China and Europe. Significance: Connected China, India, and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture. | 7 | |
| 7298176535 | Hernan Cortez | Spanish Conquistador who defeated the Aztec Empire and claimed Mexico for Spain Significance: Led the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire | 8 | |
| 7298176536 | Conquistador | Term for a Spanish conqueror Significance: There were lots of 'em at this time period | 9 | |
| 7298176537 | Protestant Reformation | The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era. Significance: event that resulted in the split of the Catholic Church | 10 | |
| 7298176538 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533 Significance: He claimed the Incan lands for Spain |  | 11 |
| 7298176539 | Roanoke | The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina. Significance: It is a tale of mystery. ;) | 12 | |
| 7298176540 | Francis Drake | Drake circumnavigated the globe from 1577-1580, helped defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588 and was the most renowned seaman of the Elizabethan era. Significance: He performed the second circumnavigation of the globe. | 13 | |
| 7298176541 | Northwest Passage | the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America Significance: Provided a sea route to the Pacific Ocean and opened up a new trade route. | 14 | |
| 7298176542 | Clovis People | An ancient group of Native Americans, known for Clovis points found in New Mexico, where they resided. Significance: The earliest known people to inhabit the Americas. | 15 | |
| 7298176543 | Cahokia | biggest settled community in the US until about 1800; residents built giant mounds Significance: An important agricultural area of North America that flourished | 16 | |
| 7298176544 | Three Sisters | It was a Trifecta of agriculture that consisted of squash, corn, and beans.Commonly used in Native American agriculture. Significance: ZIt was an effective source of food. | 17 | |
| 7298176545 | Reconquista | The long struggle( ending in 1492) during which Spanish Christians reconquered the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim occupiers, who first in vaded in the 8th century. Significance: It ended the Muslim's control of the Iberian Peninsula. | 18 | |
| 7298176546 | Tainos | members of an extinct Arawak people formerly inhabiting the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas. Significance: ? | 19 | |
| 7298176547 | Amerigo Vespucci | An Italian map-maker for which America was named Significance: America's namesake | 20 | |
| 7298176548 | Columbian Exchange | The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage. Significance: It changed both European and Native American knowledge. | 21 | |
| 7298176549 | Bartolome de Las Casas | Dominican priest who spoke out against mistreatment of Native Americans Significance: He was a voice of morality in a time of bad. | 22 | |
| 7298176550 | Black Legend | The Black Legend is a style of tendentious, subjective historical writing or propaganda that demonizes Spain, its people, and its culture in an intentional attempt to damage its reputation. Significance: Haters Gonna Hate. | 23 | |
| 7298176551 | Nation-State | A relatively new development in Europe during the 1300s and 1400s in which nations became the major political organizations. Significance: They replaced both the smaller kingdoms and city-states. | 24 | |
| 7298176552 | Walter Raleigh | an English adventurer and writer who established a colony near Roanoke Island, in present-day North Carolina. Significance: he established the colony of Roanoke (it disappeared, but points for trying) | 25 | |
| 7298176553 | Privateer | an armed ship owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping. Significance: IT was a way to get $$$ | 26 | |
| 7298176554 | Treaty of Tortillas | agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers. Significance: It prevented conflict from occuring | 27 | |
| 7298176555 | Valladolid Debate | Debate with Bartolome de las Casas about whether Native Americans should be treated as humans. Significance: Bartolome once again being a good example of a moral voice in a bad time. | 28 |
