562977504 | Crusaders | Christians who drove out the Muslims and acquired tastes for Asian goods = exploration | |
562977506 | Marco Polo | Italian adv. "Book of China" = Europe wanted a cheaper route route Asia | |
562977509 | Bartholomeau Dias | 1488 rounded the south tip of Africa | |
562977513 | Vasco da Gama | reached India "Indies - myst. land of oriental" and returned with jewels and spices | |
562977523 | Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince responsible for direction of series of expeditions along the African coast in the 15th century; marked beginning of Western European expansion | |
562977524 | Treaty of Tordesaillas | Spain secured NA by dividing with Portugal Spain with the U.S. | |
562977525 | Vasco Balboa | first to sail the pacific in 1513 | |
562977526 | Ferdinand Magellan | 1519 5 ships and beaten through the tip of South America and killed, last boat sailed back 1522 - first circumnavigation of the globe | |
562977527 | Ponce de Leon | explored Florida for fountain of youth and dead by Indian arrow | |
562977528 | Francisco Coronado | wandered through Colorado and the canyon | |
562977529 | Hernando de Soto | looking for gold he found the Mississippi river, abused Indians | |
562977530 | Hernando Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) --Mestizos | |
562977531 | Francisco Pizarro | crushed the Incas of Peru in 1632 and profited from silver led to capitalism | |
562977532 | Aztecs | they settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. (polytheistic). | |
562977533 | Incas | Ancient civilization (1200-1500AD) that was located in the Andes in Peru. Built a huge empire there. | |
562977534 | Francis Drake | to promote Protestantism he would attack Spanish ships and land and returned in 1580 with Spanish money work with Queen Elizabeth | |
562977535 | Humphrey Gilbert | tried to colonize in NA but died | |
562977536 | Walter Raleigh | Brother of Gilbert tried to colonize at Roanoke which disappeared | |
562977537 | Elizabeth I | Reestablished Protestantism as the state religion of England and she led the defeat of the Spanish Armada. | |
562977538 | Protestant Reformation | Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations, including the Lutheran and Reformed Churches and the Church of England | |
562977539 | Spanish Armada | appointed by Philip II of Spain were used to attack Eng. who fount back and was crushed in a storm = eng to Spanish's imperial dream | |
562977540 | Enclosure Movement | landholders in Eng. closing croplands for sheep grazing, forcing farmers elsewhere due to population | |
562977541 | Joint Stock Company | forerunner of the modern corporation enable number of investors to pool heir capital | |
562977542 | Jamestown | Virginia Company settled a colony in Virginia and made a charter equal right as Eng. nightmare with no food | |
562977543 | John Smith | saved Virginia 1608 kidnapped by Ind. saved by Chief's daughter, Pocahontas who began to help them | |
562977544 | John Rolfe | married to Pocahontas father of tobbaco bus. and economic savings of Virginia | |
562977545 | cash crop | a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market tobacco | |
562977546 | starving time | Jamestown winter of 1609 - 1610; people starved because there wasn't much food | |
562977547 | House of Burgesses | Lo. Co. authorized the settlers to make an assembly a miniature parliament in Virginia who had a self gov. | |
562977548 | George Calvert | He received Maryland as a refuge for Catholics he is also known as the first Lord Baltimore | |
562977549 | Act of Toleration | a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians | |
562977550 | charter colonies | colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle | |
562977551 | proprietary colonies | Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors, subject to the king's approval. | |
562977552 | royal colonies | Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws. | |
562977553 | James Oglethorpe | ... | |
562977554 | soil butchery | ... | |
562977555 | John Calvin | ... | |
562977556 | Martin Luther | ... | |
562977557 | predestination | ... | |
562977558 | visible saints | ... | |
562977559 | salvation by faith | ... | |
562977560 | salvation by works | ... | |
562977561 | Henry VIII | ... | |
562977562 | Church of England | ... | |
562977563 | Anglican Church | ... | |
562977564 | Puritans | ... | |
562977565 | Separatists | ... | |
562977566 | Pilgrims | ... | |
562977567 | Mayflower Compact | ... | |
562977568 | William Bradford | ... | |
562977569 | John Winthrop | ... | |
562977570 | Great Puritan Migration | ... | |
562977571 | Theocracy | ... | |
562977572 | "City of God" | ... | |
562977573 | "City on a hill" | ... | |
562977574 | General Court | ... | |
562977575 | John Cotton | ... | |
562977576 | Protestant work ethic | ... | |
562977577 | "Blue laws" | ... | |
562977578 | Anne Hutchinson | ... | |
562977579 | Roger Williams | ... | |
562977580 | Thomas Hooker | ... | |
562977581 | Fundamental Orders | ... | |
562977582 | Separation of church and state | ... | |
562977583 | Ferdiando Gorges | ... | |
562977584 | New England Confederation | ... | |
562977585 | John Mason | ... | |
562977586 | King Philip's War | ... | |
562977587 | Dominion of New England | ... | |
562977588 | Edmund Andros | ... | |
562977589 | mercantilism | ... | |
562977590 | Trade and Navigation Acts | ... | |
562977591 | Glorious Revolution | ... | |
562977592 | headright system | ... | |
562977593 | indentured servants | ... | |
562977594 | New Swedan | ... | |
562977595 | Peter Stuyvesant | ... | |
562977596 | patroonship | ... | |
562977597 | New Netherland | ... | |
562977598 | William Penn | ... | |
562977599 | Quakers | ... | |
562977600 | "the Holy experiment" | ... | |
562977601 | Bacon's Rebellion | ... | |
562977602 | Middle Passage | ... | |
562977603 | Slave Codes | ... | |
562977604 | Triangular Trade Routes | ... | |
562977605 | plantation system | ... | |
562977606 | township system | ... | |
562977607 | old field schools | ... | |
562977608 | revolution | ... | |
562977609 | revolution | ... | |
562977610 | Harvard College | ... | |
562977611 | William and Mary | ... | |
562977614 | town meetings | ... | |
562977619 | half-way covenant | ... | |
562977622 | Salem witch trials | ... | |
562977624 | Pennsylvania Dutch | ... | |
562977627 | Scotch-Irish | ... | |
562977630 | Massachusetts School Laws of 1642 and 1647 | ... | |
562977633 | French Huguenots | ... | |
562977635 | Paxton Boys | ... | |
562977637 | Regulators | ... | |
562977639 | social mobility | ... | |
562977641 | artisans | ... | |
562977643 | social stratification | ... | |
562977645 | yeoman farmers | ... | |
562977648 | fall line | ... | |
562977650 | naval stores | ... | |
562977652 | Congregational Church | ... | |
562977654 | Great Awakening | ... | |
562977656 | Jonathan Edwards | ... | |
562977658 | George Whitefield | ... | |
562977660 | old lights | ... | |
562977662 | new lights | ... | |
562977664 | Benjamin West | ... | |
562977666 | John Singleton Copley | ... | |
562977668 | Phyllis Wheatley | ... | |
562977670 | Benjamin Franklin | ... | |
562977672 | John Peter Zenger | ... | |
562977674 | Samuel de Champlain | ... | |
562977677 | Hurons | ... | |
562977678 | Iroquois | ... | |
562977680 | Pontiac's Rebellion | ... | |
562977681 | Robert de LaSalle | ... | |
562977682 | King William's War | ... | |
562977683 | Queen Anne's War | ... | |
562977684 | King George's War | ... | |
562977685 | buffer colony | ... | |
562977686 | War of Jenkin's Ear | ... | |
562977687 | Fort Duquesne | ... | |
562977688 | General Braddock | ... | |
562977689 | James Wolfe | ... | |
562977690 | Jeffrey Amherst | ... | |
562977691 | Marquis de Montcalm | ... | |
562977692 | Battle of Quebec | ... |
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