Important APUSH Ch.1 terms
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| 1615790261 | old world | Europe |  | 0 |
| 1615790262 | new world | A term for the Americas (and sometimes other non-European areas) during the Age of Exploration |  | 1 |
| 1615790263 | appalachian mountains | A chain of mountains that includes the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia as well as other mountains up and down the East coast. |  | 2 |
| 1615829812 | tidewater region | Along the coast of the Southern Colonies. Major feature was the plantation - a large farm where one main crop was grown - cotton, sugar, rice or tobacco. |  | 3 |
| 1615829813 | rocky mountains | A major mountain system of the U.S. and Canada, extending 3,000 miles from Alaska south to New Mexico. |  | 4 |
| 1615829814 | great basin | Located west of the Rockies, this consists of basins and ranges. |  | 5 |
| 1615829815 | great lakes | A group of 5 freshwater lakes of central North America between the United States and Canada. (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) |  | 6 |
| 1615829816 | missouri-mississippi-ohio river system | Drainage system for the enormous midcontinental basin between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains |  | 7 |
| 1615886791 | land bridge | A bridge of land that allowed people to travel from Asia to North America. It was formed during the Ice Age. |  | 8 |
| 1615886792 | maize | An early form of corn grown by Native Americans |  | 9 |
| 1615886793 | aztecs | A Mesoamerican civilization of Mexico who created a strong empire that flourished between the 14th and 15th century. The arrival of Hernando Cortez and the Spanish Conquistadores ended their empire. |  | 10 |
| 1615886794 | incas | A Native American people who built a notable civilization in western South America in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The center of their empire was in present-day Peru. Francisco Pizarro of Spain conquered the empire. |  | 11 |
| 1615886795 | pueblo | An American Indian settlement, especially of adobe houses built by the pueblo people. |  | 12 |
| 1615886796 | Mound builders | Built cone-shaped hills and animal-shaped earthworks; some were burial mounds, and others were used for religious ceremonies |  | 13 |
| 1615886797 | three-sister farming | beans growing on the trellis of the cornstalks and squash covering the plants mounds to retain moisture in the soil. |  | 14 |
| 1615886798 | cherokee | A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma. |  | 15 |
| 1615886799 | iroquois | A term which designates a confederacy of 5 tribes originally inhabiting the northern part of New York state, consisting of the SENECA, CAYUGA, ONEIDA, ONONDAGA and MOHAWK. |  | 16 |
| 1615886800 | finland | A country in northern Europe bordered by Russia to the east and Sweden and Norway to the west; gained its independence from Russia in 1917 |  | 17 |
| 1615886801 | crusaders | Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled |  | 18 |
| 1615886802 | venice | An Italian city that exhibited major commerce of the Mediterranean trade at 1000 CE. |  | 19 |
| 1615886803 | genoa | In 1300 CE, Genoa and Venice were two nodes of commerce linking Europe, Africa, and Asia. Genoese ships linked the Mediterranean to the coast of Flanders through consistent routes along the Atlantic coasts of Spain, Portugal, and France. |  | 20 |
| 1615886804 | marco polo | (1254-1324) Italian explorer and author. He made numerous trips to China and returned to Europe to write of his journeys. He is responsible for much of the knowledge exchanged between Europe and China during this time period. |  | 21 |
| 1615886805 | caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. |  | 22 |
| 1615886806 | bartholomeu dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500) |  | 23 |
| 1615886807 | vasco da gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. |  | 24 |
| 1615886808 | ferdinand and isabella | During the late 15th century, they became King and Queen of a united Spain after centuries of Islamic domination. Together, they made Spain a strong Christian nation and also provided funding to overseas exploration, notably Christopher Columbus. |  | 25 |
| 1615886809 | moors | The North African Muslim population that occupied Granada in southern Spain until Isabelle and Ferdinand kicked them out to unite Spain as one country |  | 26 |
| 1616475710 | columbus | A skilled italian who sailed for spain west into the Atlantic Ocean looking for a way to Asia,and to trade he discovered an island called Hispaniola |  | 27 |
| 1616475711 | corn | vegetable exported from the Americas to the old world |  | 28 |
| 1616475712 | potatoes | a great vegetable exported from the Americas to the old world |  | 29 |
| 1616492179 | sugar | Europeans used slave labor to grow a wide range of profitable crops on the islands of the Caribbean; this was the most important and profitable of these crops |  | 30 |
| 1616492180 | horses | Animal introduced by Europeans that transformed the Indian way of life on the Great Plains |  | 31 |
| 1616492181 | smallpox | A deadly disease that was introduced to the Indaians by the Europeans., 80% of the Native American population died from this |  | 32 |
| 1616523580 | treaty of tordesillas | 1494 agreement that divided New World lands between Spain and Portugal. |  | 33 |
| 1616523581 | vasco nunez balboa | Spanish explorer who became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean in 1510 while exploring Panama |  | 34 |
| 1616523582 | magellan | 1519, Sailed W around South America to reach Asia - first to sail around the world -voyage took 3 years,1st expedition to circumnavigate the globe, Proved world was round and much bigger than previously thought |  | 35 |
| 1616523583 | juan ponce de leon | Spanish Explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the "Fountain of Youth" |  | 36 |
| 1616523584 | francisco coronado | A Spanish soldier and commander; in 1540, he led an expedition north from Mexico into Arizona; he was searching for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold, but only found Adobe pueblos. |  | 37 |
| 1616523585 | hernando de soto | Spanish Conquistador; explored in 1540's from Florida west to the Mississippi with six hundred men in search of gold; discovered the Mississippi, a vital North American river |  | 38 |
