10509843045 | Maize | corn | 0 | |
10509845311 | Great Plains | Area of Grasslands | 1 | |
10509846944 | The Columbian Exchange | the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, | 2 | |
10509850137 | Feudalism | it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour | 3 | |
10509854086 | capitalism | the means for producing and distributing goods (the land, factories, technology, transport system etc) are owned by a small minority of people | 4 | |
10509856831 | joint-stock companies | shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders. | 5 | |
10509861860 | encomienda | assigned Native Americans in South America and Caribbean to work on plots of land owned by europeans | 6 | |
10509886736 | caste | the proper roles of the different racial groups in the Spanish empire | 7 | |
10509892698 | conquistadors | Explorers & Warriors | 8 | |
10509893041 | small-pox | a deadly, contagious virus that left survivors scarred and often blind. | 9 | |
10509894688 | Spanish Missions | The purpose of the missions was to try and convert Native Americans in the Americas to the religion of the country that the settlers came from. | 10 | |
10509898776 | mestizo | a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent. | 11 | |
10509909390 | Jaun de Sepulveda vs. Bartolome de casas | wants Spanish to control Natives vs. Feels that its wrong to control the Natives and Blacks | 12 | |
10509912505 | Maroons | a member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves | 13 | |
10509914539 | Pueblo | got the Name from Mexico because of the different way of building | 14 | |
10509917877 | Chinook | Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest | 15 | |
10509922167 | iroquois | Mohawk or Onondaga leader who founded the Iroquois Confederacy | 16 | |
10509924203 | algonquin | the language of the Algonquin people in Canada | 17 | |
10509927592 | sextant | used for measuring the angular distances between objects and especially for taking altitudes in navigation. | 18 | |
10509933252 | astrolabe | an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements | 19 | |
10509934433 | Christopher Columbus | Mistakenly came to America in search of spices, enslaved Natives, Africans, killed many natives | 20 | |
10509944326 | Juan Ponce de León | he was serving as governor of the eastern province of Hispaniola when he decided to explore a nearby island, which became Puerto Rico. | 21 | |
10509955296 | Walter Raleigh: Roanoke colony | It was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement in North America | 22 |
Unit 1 AP US History Flashcards
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