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APUSH Enduring Vision 7E Chapter 1 Flashcards

This is a flash card set for all terms in Chapter 1 of Enduring Vision, 7th edition. Hope all my fellow APUSH students can enjoy. :)

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876496958Wampum (p.3)a quantity of small cylindrical beads made by North American Indians from shells, strung together and worn as a decorative belt or other decoration or used as money.1
876496959Iroquois Confederacy (p.3)The 5 Iroquois nations (Onondaga, Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga and Seneca) submerged on differences and created a confederacy based upon the condolence ceremony.2
876496960Paleo-Indians (p.6)Earliest Americans. Established foundation of Native American life, and had well-defined hunting territories.3
876496961Bands (p.6)Paleo-Indians traveled in bands, consisting of several families and totaling to about 15-50 people. Egalitarian.4
876496962Reciprocity (p.6)Mutual Bestowing of gifts and favors. Equal power among bands, no one party accumulate profit and power at others' expense.5
876496963Archaic People (p.6)Warming climate allowed some Indians to form year-round villages with more food sources.6
876496964Mesoamerica (p.7)Home to most sophisticated early plant cultivators. (Central and southern Mexico, as well with Central America.) Maize agriculture was highly developed by 2500 B.C.E.7
876496965Chiefdoms (p.7)Hereditary rulers exercised absolute power , their realms consisted of a few closely clustered communities.8
876496966States (p.7)Ruler or government exercising direct authority over many communities.9
876496967Aztecs (p.7)One of the two mighty Empires to challenge large states that flourished in Mesoamerica and South America. Migrated from the north and settled the shore of lake Texcoco. First as subjects.10
876496968Incas (p.11)Second empire, arose in Western Hemisphere. The Incas conquered and subordinated societies over much of the Andes and adjacent regions after 1438.11
876496969Hohokam (p.11)Located in Southern Arizona, these people built irrigation canals that enabled them to harvest two crops a year. Organized large, coordinated work parties to construct and maintain canals.12
876496970Ancestral Pueblo (p.11)Four corners. Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah meet. By around 700 C.E. they harvested crops, permanent residence, and made pottery. Became most powerful people in the SW.13
876496971Poverty Point (p.13)By 1200 B.C.E. about 5,000 people lived here, on lower Mississippi.14
876496972Adena (p.13)Different kind of mound building culture, emerged in Ohio valley around 400 B.C.E. Their villages were smaller than Poverty Point, rarely exceeding 400 inhabitants. Most mounds contained graves, treatment of their dead differed upon social and/or political status. Some cremated, others in clay basins, others in elaborate tombs.15
876496973Hopewell (p.13)After 100 B.C.E. Adena culture evolved into the more complex and widespread culture. Spread from Ohio Valley to the Illinois River valley. Elites were buried with thousands of freshwater pearls or copper ornaments, or with sheets of mica, quartz, or other sacred substances. Also had extensive trade networks.16
876496974Mississippian (p.13)Beginning around 700 C.E. the first full-time farmers in the East lived on the floodplains of the Mississippi River and its major tributaries.17
876496975Cahokia (p.13)Around 900 C.E. Mississippian centers formed extensive networks based upon river-borne trade, and shared religious beliefs, each dominated by a metropolis. This one was the largest and most powerful, located near modern day St. Louis, Missouri.18
876496976Nuclear families (p.16)Husband, wife, and biological children. Lived with one of the parents' relatives.19
876496977Extended families (p.16)Multigenerational, often containing a nuclear family, among other relatives.20

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