1607723693 | land bridge | A connection between two land masses, a prehistoric land mass that allowed humans and animals colonize new territory before they are cut off by the sea. | 0 | |
1607723694 | Inca Empire | The largest empire in pre-columbian america, the political and military was located in cusco. (modern day peru) | 1 | |
1607723695 | Aztec Empire | A member of Nahuatl-speaking in central mexico and it was conquered by cortes in 1521. This was also called classical Nahuatl. | 2 | |
1607723696 | Mound Builders | Various american indian tribes who, erected the burial grounds and other earthworks of mississippi. | 3 | |
1607723697 | Hiawatha | A prehistorical native american leader and a co-founder of the iroquios confedercy. | 4 | |
1607723698 | Marco Polo | An italian merchant traveller from venice whos travels are recorded in livres des merveilles du monde. He was introduced in Central Asia and China. | 5 | |
1607723699 | Portuguese caravel (ship) | A small light sailing ships, ecspecially one with two or three masts and lateen sails used by spanish. | 6 | |
1607723700 | Christopher Columbus | A geonese explorer navigator and colonizer, born in the republic in Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. | 7 | |
1607723701 | Spanish Conquistodors | A conqueror that is in control of mexico and peru in the 16th century and this was a spanish conqueror. | 8 | |
1607723702 | Ferdinand Magellan | A famous portugese explorer who organized an expedition that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth completed by Juan Sebastian Elcano. | 9 | |
1607723703 | Ponce de Leon | Juan ponce de leon was a spanish explorer and conquistador and became the first governor of Puerto rico. he was elected by app. of the spanish crown. he led the first exploration to Florida(which he named). | 10 | |
1607723704 | Hernan Cortes | first marquis of the valley of oaxaca was a spanish conquistador. He led the expedition of the fall of the Aztec Empire. He got large portions of mainland. | 11 | |
1607723705 | Tenochtitlan | An Aztec altepetl located in an island in tenochitilan, in the valley of mexico. | 12 | |
1607723706 | Moctezuma II | Was the ninth ruler of the tenochitilan, he made the first contact with the mesoamerica, later in his rule he was killed in inital stages of spanish conquest of america. | 13 | |
1607723707 | Queen Elizabeth I | Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Bolelyn. Queen of england, Succeeding her catholic sister Mary I. She restated Protestantism as a religion. | 14 | |
1607723708 | Sir Walter Raleigh | An english aristicrat and writer, poet, solider, politican, spy, and explorer. Cousin to Sir Richard Grenville. He is the reason tobacco is so popular nowadays. | 15 | |
1607723709 | Francis Drake | Was an english sea captain privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Had the second circumnavigation of the world. | 16 | |
1607723710 | Spanish Armada | A fleet of warships that came and by spanish and was later defeated by the english. Mostly destroyed by storms of hebrides. | 17 | |
1607723711 | King James I | The first stuart to be king of engand and ireland and before that the king of scotland. He was the son of mary queen of scots. He terminated the british parliament. | 18 | |
1607723712 | Captain John Smith | Was an soldier, explorer, and author. Knighted for the services of sigmus bathory, prince of transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. | 19 | |
1607723713 | Jamestown | A village of in east virginia and the first permanent english settlement in north america. | 20 | |
1607723714 | Powhatan | The Algonquian leader who founded that confedercy and maintained peaceful relations with the english colonists. After the marriage of his daughter Pocahontas. | 21 | |
1607723715 | Act of Toleration (1649) | Also known as the act concering religion was a law mandating religious tolerance for christians in St. Marys colony | 22 | |
1607723716 | Iroquois Confederacy | Members of the iroquois confedercy, the five nations and comprising the different tribes. | 23 | |
1607894670 | Martin Luther | A german monk, catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of the 16th century and the movement in christianity known later as the protestant reformation | 24 | |
1607894671 | Mayflower | A ship that was transported mostly english puritans and Separatists collectively known today as pilgrims from plymouth to the "new world" | 25 | |
1607894672 | Plymouth | a seaport in Devonshire in England on the English Channel, the naval base; the departing point of the Mayflower 1620 | 26 | |
1607894673 | William Bradford | English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymouth Colony was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact. He served as the plymouth governor five times in 30 times | 27 | |
1607894674 | "Great Migration of 1630's" | The first governing document of Plymouth Colony, It was signed on November 11, 1620 (OS) by 41 of the ship's one hundred and two passengers, in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. | 28 | |
1607894675 | Quakers | Proprietary colony; religious freedom; Good relations w/Indians | 29 | |
1607894676 | William Penn | William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | 30 | |
1608040778 | Bacon's Rebellion | An Armed rebelllion in 1676 led by virginia settlers and the governor is william berkely. The colony's disorganized frontier political structure, combined with accumulating grievances (including leaving Bacon out of his inner circle, refusing to allow Bacon to be a part of his fur trade with the Native Americans | 31 | |
1608040779 | Slave trade routes | These were routes that settlers used as a business process for transportation.This was used for african american mostly, but very few indentured slaves. | 32 | |
1608040780 | Virginia House of Burgesses | Was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The house was established by the virginia company who created them as an effort to encourage english craftsmen to settle. | 33 | |
1608040781 | William and Mary | King William III and Queen Mary II of England, who ruled jointly after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 had expelled Mary's father, King James II. William and Mary were Protestants, | 34 | |
1608040782 | Salem Witch Trials | Trials held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 led to the execution of 20 people for supposedly practicing witchcraft. The trials are noted for the crazy atmosphere in which they were conducted. Many townspeople were widely suspected of witchcraft on flimsy evidence | 35 | |
1608075601 | King Louis XIV | Louis XIV also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who had ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death. | 36 | |
1608075602 | Samuel de Champlain | Samuel de Champlain "The Father of New France"was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608 | 37 | |
1608075603 | King William's War (1689-1697) | war fought largely between French trappers, British settlers, and their respective allies. The colonial theater of the larger war of the League of Augsburg in Europe. | 38 | |
1608075604 | Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) | 2nd in a series of conflicts btwn the European powers of North America, fought btwn the English and French colonists in the North, and the English and Spanish in Florida. Under the peace treaty, the French ceded Acadia (Nova Scotia), Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay to Britain. | 39 | |
1608075605 | Fort Necessity | Battle of the Great Meadows took place on July 3, 1754 in what is now the mountaintop hamlet of Farmington in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The engagement was one of the first battles of the French and Indian War. This was the war that George washington surrendered. | 40 | |
1608075606 | General George Washington | was the first President of the United States (1789-1797), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States | 41 | |
1608075607 | General Edward Braddock | was a British soldier and commander-in-chief for the 13 colonies during the actions at the start of the French and Indian Warwhich is also known in Europe as the Seven Years. | 42 | |
1608075608 | William Pitt | A british politician of the 18th century. He was a prime minister and was in office untill before his death in 1806. He led part of the government in great britain in the seven years war. | 43 | |
1608075609 | The Battle of Quebec | The first major defeat of the americans, many generals were killed and 400 were taken as slaves. This happened near the revolutionary war. | 44 | |
1608075610 | Chief Pontiac | Was an Ottawa war chief who was noted for his role in Pontiac's War. An American Indian struggle against British military occupation of the Great Lakes region and named for him. | 45 | |
1608075611 | Daniel Boone | Was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. | 46 |
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