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562977504CrusadersChristians who drove out the Muslims and acquired tastes for Asian goods = exploration
562977506Marco PoloItalian adv. "Book of China" = Europe wanted a cheaper route route Asia
562977509Bartholomeau Dias1488 rounded the south tip of Africa
562977513Vasco da Gamareached India "Indies - myst. land of oriental" and returned with jewels and spices
562977523Henry the NavigatorPortuguese prince responsible for direction of series of expeditions along the African coast in the 15th century; marked beginning of Western European expansion
562977524Treaty of TordesaillasSpain secured NA by dividing with Portugal Spain with the U.S.
562977525Vasco Balboafirst to sail the pacific in 1513
562977526Ferdinand Magellan1519 5 ships and beaten through the tip of South America and killed, last boat sailed back 1522 - first circumnavigation of the globe
562977527Ponce de Leonexplored Florida for fountain of youth and dead by Indian arrow
562977528Francisco Coronadowandered through Colorado and the canyon
562977529Hernando de Sotolooking for gold he found the Mississippi river, abused Indians
562977530Hernando CortesSpanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) --Mestizos
562977531Francisco Pizarrocrushed the Incas of Peru in 1632 and profited from silver led to capitalism
562977532Aztecsthey settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. (polytheistic).
562977533IncasAncient civilization (1200-1500AD) that was located in the Andes in Peru. Built a huge empire there.
562977534Francis Draketo promote Protestantism he would attack Spanish ships and land and returned in 1580 with Spanish money work with Queen Elizabeth
562977535Humphrey Gilberttried to colonize in NA but died
562977536Walter RaleighBrother of Gilbert tried to colonize at Roanoke which disappeared
562977537Elizabeth IReestablished Protestantism as the state religion of England and she led the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
562977538Protestant ReformationReligious 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
562977539Spanish Armadaappointed 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
562977540Enclosure Movementlandholders in Eng. closing croplands for sheep grazing, forcing farmers elsewhere due to population
562977541Joint Stock Companyforerunner of the modern corporation enable number of investors to pool heir capital
562977542JamestownVirginia Company settled a colony in Virginia and made a charter equal right as Eng. nightmare with no food
562977543John Smithsaved Virginia 1608 kidnapped by Ind. saved by Chief's daughter, Pocahontas who began to help them
562977544John Rolfemarried to Pocahontas father of tobbaco bus. and economic savings of Virginia
562977545cash cropa readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market tobacco
562977546starving timeJamestown winter of 1609 - 1610; people starved because there wasn't much food
562977547House of BurgessesLo. Co. authorized the settlers to make an assembly a miniature parliament in Virginia who had a self gov.
562977548George CalvertHe received Maryland as a refuge for Catholics he is also known as the first Lord Baltimore
562977549Act of Tolerationa 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
562977550charter coloniescolony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle
562977551proprietary coloniesColonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors, subject to the king's approval.
562977552royal coloniesColonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
562977553James Oglethorpe...
562977554soil butchery...
562977555John Calvin...
562977556Martin Luther...
562977557predestination...
562977558visible saints...
562977559salvation by faith...
562977560salvation by works...
562977561Henry VIII...
562977562Church of England...
562977563Anglican Church...
562977564Puritans...
562977565Separatists...
562977566Pilgrims...
562977567Mayflower Compact...
562977568William Bradford...
562977569John Winthrop...
562977570Great Puritan Migration...
562977571Theocracy...
562977572"City of God"...
562977573"City on a hill"...
562977574General Court...
562977575John Cotton...
562977576Protestant work ethic...
562977577"Blue laws"...
562977578Anne Hutchinson...
562977579Roger Williams...
562977580Thomas Hooker...
562977581Fundamental Orders...
562977582Separation of church and state...
562977583Ferdiando Gorges...
562977584New England Confederation...
562977585John Mason...
562977586King Philip's War...
562977587Dominion of New England...
562977588Edmund Andros...
562977589mercantilism...
562977590Trade and Navigation Acts...
562977591Glorious Revolution...
562977592headright system...
562977593indentured servants...
562977594New Swedan...
562977595Peter Stuyvesant...
562977596patroonship...
562977597New Netherland...
562977598William Penn...
562977599Quakers...
562977600"the Holy experiment"...
562977601Bacon's Rebellion...
562977602Middle Passage...
562977603Slave Codes...
562977604Triangular Trade Routes...
562977605plantation system...
562977606township system...
562977607old field schools...
562977608revolution...
562977609revolution...
562977610Harvard College...
562977611William and Mary...
562977614town meetings...
562977619half-way covenant...
562977622Salem witch trials...
562977624Pennsylvania Dutch...
562977627Scotch-Irish...
562977630Massachusetts School Laws of 1642 and 1647...
562977633French Huguenots...
562977635Paxton Boys...
562977637Regulators...
562977639social mobility...
562977641artisans...
562977643social stratification...
562977645yeoman farmers...
562977648fall line...
562977650naval stores...
562977652Congregational Church...
562977654Great Awakening...
562977656Jonathan Edwards...
562977658George Whitefield...
562977660old lights...
562977662new lights...
562977664Benjamin West...
562977666John Singleton Copley...
562977668Phyllis Wheatley...
562977670Benjamin Franklin...
562977672John Peter Zenger...
562977674Samuel de Champlain...
562977677Hurons...
562977678Iroquois...
562977680Pontiac's Rebellion...
562977681Robert de LaSalle...
562977682King William's War...
562977683Queen Anne's War...
562977684King George's War...
562977685buffer colony...
562977686War of Jenkin's Ear...
562977687Fort Duquesne...
562977688General Braddock...
562977689James Wolfe...
562977690Jeffrey Amherst...
562977691Marquis de Montcalm...
562977692Battle of Quebec...

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