AP English Literature - Comedy Flashcards
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| 6240476050 | Comedy (noun) | A drama of light and amusing character and typically with a happy ending. | 0 | |
| 6240487591 | Satire (noun) | A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn. | 1 | |
| 6240501542 | Tragicomedy (noun) | A work of drama which has qualities of a tragedy and elements of a comedy. | 2 | |
| 6240517496 | Pun (noun) | The usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound. | 3 | |
| 6240522220 | Incongruity (noun) | The quality of disagreeing. | 4 | |
| 6240529011 | Irony (noun) | Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs OR the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning. (Ex. dramatic, situational, & verbal/sarcasm) | 5 | |
| 6240538764 | Euphemism (noun) | An inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive. | 6 | |
| 6240548190 | Malapropism (noun) | A word humorously misused. | 7 | |
| 6240550542 | Wit (noun) | An amusing person who makes jokes. | 8 | |
| 6240558182 | Understatement (noun) | The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 9 | |
| 6240564753 | Injective (noun) | An intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack. | 10 | |
| 6240569476 | Litotes (noun) | Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary). | 11 | |
| 6240575099 | Knave (noun) | An unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest & foolish person in a comedy who often asks as the villain. | 12 | |
| 6240578793 | Non-sequitur (noun) | A statement that does not follow logically from evidence. | 13 | |
| 6240581624 | Parody (noun) | A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way. | 14 |
AP Literature Flashcards
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| 4926536588 | Aside | words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the actors on stage. | 0 | |
| 4926538546 | Comic Relief | an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action. | 1 | |
| 4926544131 | Conflict | opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces. | 2 | |
| 4926546326 | Denouement | the portion of the plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or solution of its mysteries. | 3 | |
| 4926548866 | Foil | a character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. | 4 | |
| 4926551865 | Foreshadowing | device a writer uses to hint at a future course of action. | 5 | |
| 4926556149 | Hamartia | tragic flaw; a defect in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings about his or her downfall. | 6 | |
| 4926558022 | Hubris or Hybris | great pride that brings about the downfall of a character in a Greek drama or in other works of literature. | 7 | |
| 4926561196 | Melodrama | literary works of film that uses maudlin sedimentary and sterotypical characters. | 8 | |
| 4926566925 | Soliloquy | recitations in a play in which a character reveals his thoughts to the audience but not to other characters in the play. | 9 | |
| 4926569944 | Tragedy | a type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse. | 10 | |
| 4926571785 | Tragic Flaw | a weakness or a limitation of character, resulting in the flaw of the tragic hero. | 11 | |
| 4926574682 | Tragic Hero | a privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering. | 12 | |
| 4926579281 | Inversion | changing of the usual order of words for emphasis. | 13 | |
| 4926580731 | Dramatic Irony | theater; irony that occurs when the meeting of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 14 | |
| 4926583061 | Metaphor | comparing one thing to an unlike thing without using like, as, or than. | 15 |
AP Language Rhetorical Terms: List 1 Flashcards
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| 4723523503 | allusion | A reference to some famous literary work, historical figure, or event. For example, to say that a friend " had the patience of Job" means that he is as enduring as the Biblical figure of that name. These must be used with care lest the audience miss their meaning | 0 | |
| 4723523504 | argumentation | The writer's attempt to convince his reader to agree with him. It is based upon appeals of reason, evidence proving the argument, and sometimes emotion to persuade. Some attempt to merely prove a point, but others go beyond proving to inciting the reader to action. At the heart this term lies a debatable issue. | 1 | |
| 4723523505 | coherence | The principal of clarity and logical adherence to a topic that binds together all parts of a composition. A essay that has this is one whose parts--sentences, paragraphs, pages-- are logically infused into a single whole. Its opposite is one that is jumbled, illogical, and unclear. | 2 | |
| 4723523506 | description | A rhetorical mode used to develop an essay whose primary aims is to depict a scene, person, thing or idea. This type of writing evokes the look, feel, sound, and sense of events, people, or things | 3 | |
| 4723523507 | diction | Word choice. This refers to the choice of words a writer uses in an essay or other wiring. Implicit is a vast vocabulary of synonyms--different words that have more or less equivalent meanings. If only one word existed for every idea or condition, this term would not exist. But since we have a choice of words with various shades of meaning, a writer can and does chose among words to express ideas. Skilled writers determine this by the audience and occasion of their writing. | 4 | |
| 4723523508 | exposition | Writing whose chief aim is to explain. Rather than showing, as in narration, this rhetorical device tells. A majority of essays contain this device because they need to convey information, giver background, or tell how events occurred or processes work. | 5 | |
| 4723523509 | figurative language | Said of a word or expression used in a non literal way. For example, the expression "to go the last mile" may have nothing at all to do with geographical distance, but may mean to complete an unfinished task or job. | 6 | |
| 4723523510 | hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. These often have a comic effect; however, a serious effect is also possible. Often, this figure of speech produces irony at the same time. | 7 | |
| 4723523511 | image/ imagery | A phrase or expression that evokes a picture or describes a scene. It may be either literal, in which case it is a realistic attempt to depict with words what something looks like, or figurative, in which case the expression is used that likens the thing described to something else | 8 | |
| 4723523512 | irony | The use of language in such a way that apparent meaning contrasts sharply with the real meaning. It is a softer form of sarcasm and shares with it the same contrast between apparent and real meaning. It can also be used to create humor or poignancy. In general there are three major types used in language: 1. Verbal, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's/speaker's true meaning. 2. Situational, events turn out the opposite of what was expected. It allows the readers to make a distinction between appearances and realities, and eventually associate them to the theme of a story. 3. Dramatic, facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or a piece of fiction but known to the audience, reader, or other characters. | 9 | |
| 4723523513 | metaphor | A figurative image that implies similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar. | 10 | |
| 4723523514 | mood | The pervading impression of feelings on the reader. Can be gloomy, sad, joyful, bitter, frightening; as many as are in any emotional range. | 11 | |
| 4723523515 | narration | A mode of writing which gives an account of events as they happen. Organizes material on the basis of chronological order or pattern. | 12 | |
| 4723523516 | oxymoron | A figure of speech in which an author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. "Jumbo shrimp" "cruel kindness" | 13 | |
| 4723523517 | pacing | The speed at which a piece of writing moves along. Depends on the balance between summarizing action and representing action in detail. Can be affected by syntax. | 14 | |
| 4723523518 | paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 15 | |
| 4723523519 | parallelism | The principle of coherent writing requiring that coordinating elements be given the same grammatical form. | 16 | |
| 4723523520 | parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. As comedy, it distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original. As ridicule, it mimics the work by repeating and borrowing words, phrases, or characteristics in order to illuminate weaknesses in the original. | 17 | |
| 4723523521 | personification | Attributing human qualities to objects, abstractions, and animals. | 18 | |
| 4723523522 | point of view | Perspective from which a piece of writing is developed. | 19 | |
| 4723523523 | rhetoric | The art of analyzing all the choices involving language that writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that the text become meaningful, purposeful, and effective; the specific features of texts--written or spoken--that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for reader or listeners in a situation. | 20 | |
| 4723557038 | rhetorical modes (modes of discourse) | The variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing: exposition, argumentation, description, narration. | 21 | |
| 4723559339 | simile | A figure of speech which, like a metaphor, implies a similarity between things otherwise dissimilar. The simile, however, always uses the words like, as, or so to introduce the comparison. | 22 | |
| 4723564183 | slanting | The characteristic of selecting facts, words, or emphasis to achieve a preconceived intent: favorable or unfavorable. | 23 | |
| 4723565808 | style | The way a writer writes. The expression of an author's individuality through the use of words, sentence patterns, and selection of details. Any of the choices writers make while writing--about diction, sentence length, structure, rhythm, and figures of speech--that make their work sound like them. | 24 |
AP Literature and Composition Plot Flashcards
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| 6893244548 | Anticlimax | a sudden descent from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential | 0 | |
| 6893245867 | catastrophe | the concluding action of a classical tragedy containing the resolution of the plot | 1 | |
| 6893248512 | comic relief | a humorous incident introduced into a serious literary work in order to relieve dramatic tension or heighten emotional impact | 2 | |
| 6893253374 | dilemma | a situation in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable | 3 | |
| 6893255393 | deus ex machina | (god from the machine) The resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence (so named from the practice of some Greek dramatists of having a god descend from heaven at the last possible minute-in the theater by means of a stage machine- to rescue the protagonist from an impossible situation) | 4 | |
| 6893262612 | indeterminate ending | an ending in which the central problem or conflict is left unresolved | 5 | |
| 6893264781 | inversion | a reversal in order, nature, or effect | 6 | |
| 6893266663 | motivation | an emotional, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action | 7 | |
| 6893269238 | mystery | an unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation; used to create suspense | 8 | |
| 6893271738 | paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements | 9 | |
| 6893275551 | plot | the sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed | 10 | |
| 6893277080 | plot manipulation | a situation in which an author gives the plot a twist or turn unjustified by preceding action or by the characters involved | 11 | |
| 6893279557 | plot device | an object, character, or event whose only reason for existing is to advance the story. often breaks suspension of disbelief | 12 | |
| 6893756320 | prologue | an introduction or a preface, esp. a poem recited to introduce a play | 13 | |
| 6893761998 | red herring | a literary tactic of diverting attention away from an item or person of significance | 14 | |
| 6893766612 | scene | a subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuous | 15 | |
| 6893769821 | suspense | that quality in a story that makes the reader eager to discover what happens next and how it will end | 16 | |
| 6893772270 | suspension of disbelief | an unspoken agreement between writer and reader:"I agree to believe your make-believe if it entertains me" | 17 | |
| 6893777414 | subplot | a plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work | 18 | |
| 6893778965 | surprise | an unexpected turn in the development of a plot | 19 |
AP English Literature and Composition Literary Periods Flashcards
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| 4842512169 | Classical | The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a human philosophy later expanded upon during the Enlightenment. | 0 | |
| 4842512170 | Neoclassical | Later works that alluded to characters, settings, and plots based the ideals of Ancient Greece, and to an extent the old and new testament of the bible. ________ works appear throughout literary and artistic works from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. | 1 | |
| 4842512171 | Old English | Also known as the Anglo-Saxon period, includes the epic Beowulf, first half of the fifth century AD | 2 | |
| 4842512172 | Middle English | Transitional period between the Anglo-Saxon and modern english, 1066-1500; Chaucer is a good example of this period | 3 | |
| 4842512173 | Metaphysical Poets | A group of 17th century poets who focused on philosophical issues. Their work combined indirect language with complex images, paradoxes, and conceits. Robert Herrick, Abrham Cowley, John Donne, and Andrew Marvel are examples | 4 | |
| 4842512174 | Elizabethan Era | English writers such as William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Philip Sidney, and Edmind Spenser, late 1550's to early 1600s | 5 | |
| 4842512175 | Enlightenment | An intellectual movement in France and other parts of Europe that emphasizes reason, progress, and liberty. Along with portions of the victorian Period, the Enlightenment is associated with Neo-classicism, or imitation and celebration of Greeks and Roman art and literature. Humanism was an important component, 1600-1790. Major authors included Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Dryden | 6 | |
| 4842512176 | Romantic Period | Started in 1798, concluded with the crowing of Queen Victoria in 1837. A movement that reacted against the Enlightenment by celebrating subjectivity, imagination, and the purity of nature. _______ often idealized quests for love or poetic glory. Major writers included Samuel Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe. | 7 | |
| 4842512177 | Gothic | In literature, a genre of literature that focuses on romance, dark, mysterious characters and settings. Jane Eyre and the work of Edgar Allen Poe are exemplars. | 8 | |
| 4842512178 | Victorian Period | An English movement starting in 1837, when Queen Victoria was crowned, and ending in 1901, when she died. This period was marked by prose fiction and non-fiction, with common themes of loss and wistfulness. Realism and its forms were part of this era. | 9 | |
| 4842512179 | Realism | A 19th century movement that aimed to portray ordinary, contemporary life, 1800-1900, eschews melodrama for forensic attention to social mores. Major authors: Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Honore de Balzac, Mark Twain, George Eliot. | 10 | |
| 4842512180 | Naturalism | A literary branch of realism which suggested that social conditions, heredity, and environment helped to shape human character, 1865-1900. Honore de Balzac, Upton Sinclair are examples. | 11 | |
| 4842512181 | Transcendentalism | An American intellectual and literary movement which emphasized the spiritual and individual espects of philosophy and culture. Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Thoreau are examples of this work which held up the individual over society in civil matters. | 12 | |
| 4842512182 | Modernism | A movement in art and literature that occurred during the period of 1910-1930, which emphasized intrusive narration and questioning of intellectual authority. Forms included meta-fiction of fiction which comments on art of the art of the art of fiction stream-of-consciousness (a style in which the first-person narrator includes random thoughts along with major plot events). | 13 | |
| 4842512183 | Harlem Renaissance | A literary, artistic and musical movement that began in the 1920's in the African-American area of Harlem in New York City. The movement chronicled the lives of black Americans in the south who migrated to the northern cities and celebrated African American culture. Major authors included Zora Neal Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen. | 14 | |
| 4842512184 | Post Modernism | often used to described the contemporary work of today, carried many of the same literary elements of modernism, Certain radically experimental works of literature and art produced after world war II. Much of _________ writing reveals and highlights the alienation of individuals the questioning of authority and traditional authority tructures | 15 | |
| 4842512185 | Existentialism | Writers in the late 19th century and 20th century school pondered the futility of human existence in a seemingly random world absent of theological guides. | 16 | |
| 4842512186 | Absurdism | can mean an act of irrationality or the idea that humans exist in an irrational meaningless universe | 17 | |
| 4842512187 | Magical realism | a literary version of surrealism, the twentieth century artistic from which combines fantastic or dreamlike elements with realism. Primary authors include Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. | 18 |
AP Chinese topic-art and literature Flashcards
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| 3829855406 | 艺术 | art（yì shù） | 0 | |
| 3829855407 | 艺术作品 | work of art（yì shù zuò pǐn） | 1 | |
| 3829855408 | 艺术家 | artist（yì shù jiā） | 2 | |
| 3829855409 | 绘画 | painting；drawing（huì huà） | 3 | |
| 3829855410 | 音乐 | music（yīn yuè） | 4 | |
| 3829855411 | 舞蹈 | dance（wǔ dǎo） | 5 | |
| 3829855412 | 建筑 | building（jiàn zhù） | 6 | |
| 3829855413 | 动画 | cartoon（dòng huà） | 7 | |
| 3829855414 | 漫画 | caricature（màn huà） | 8 | |
| 3829855415 | 摄影 | photography（shè yǐng） | 9 | |
| 3829855416 | 画家 | painter（huà jiā） | 10 | |
| 3829855417 | 模特 | model（mó tè） | 11 | |
| 3829855418 | 画像 | portrait（huà xiàng） | 12 | |
| 3829855419 | 油画 | oil painting（yóu huà） | 13 | |
| 3829855420 | 风景画 | landscape（fēng jǐng huà） | 14 | |
| 3829855421 | 工艺品 | craftwork（gōng yì pǐn） | 15 | |
| 3829855422 | 园林 | garden（yuán lín） | 16 | |
| 3829855423 | 文房四宝 | the four treasures of the study：writing brush，ink stick，ink slab，paper（wén fáng sì bǎo） | 17 | |
| 3829855424 | 琴棋书画 | the four subjects traditionally studied by educated people：a traditional instrument，chess，calligraphy，painting（qín qí shū huà） | 18 | |
| 3829855425 | 书法 | calligraphy（shū fǎ） | 19 | |
| 3829855426 | 剪纸 | paper-cut（jiǎn zhǐ） | 20 | |
| 3829855427 | 风筝 | kites（fēng zheng） | 21 | |
| 3829855428 | 对联 | antithetical couplet（duì lián） | 22 | |
| 3829855429 | 刺绣 | embroidery（cì xiù） | 23 | |
| 3829855430 | 中国结 | Chinese knot（Zhōng guó jié） | 24 | |
| 3829855431 | 陶器 | ceramics（táo qì） | 25 | |
| 3829855432 | 瓷器 | porcelain（cí qì） | 26 | |
| 3829855433 | 武术 | martial arts（wǔ shù） | 27 | |
| 3829855434 | 京剧 | Beijing opera（Jīng jù） | 28 | |
| 3829855435 | 丰富多彩 | rich and colorful（fēng fù duō cǎi） | 29 | |
| 3829855436 | 宝贵 | valuable（bǎo guì） | 30 | |
| 3829855437 | 财富 | wealth；fortune（cái fù） | 31 | |
| 3829855438 | 喜爱 | like；favor（xǐ'ài） | 32 | |
| 3829855439 | 经典 | classics（jīng diǎn） | 33 | |
| 3829855440 | 演出 | performance（yǎn chū） | 34 | |
| 3829855441 | 欣赏 | enjoy（xīn shǎng） | 35 | |
| 3829855442 | 博物馆 | museum（bó wù guǎn） | 36 | |
| 3829855443 | 美术馆 | pinacotheca（měi shù guǎn） | 37 | |
| 3829855444 | 文學 wén xué | literature | 38 | |
| 3829855445 | 博客 bó kè | blog | 39 | |
| 3829855446 | 歷史小說 lì shǐ xiǎo shuō | historical novel | 40 | |
| 3829855447 | 散文 sǎn wén | prose | 41 | |
| 3829855448 | 詩歌 shī gē | poetry | 42 | |
| 3829855449 | 劇本 jù běn | play; drama; script | 43 | |
| 3829855450 | 隨筆 suí bǐ | essay | 44 | |
| 3829855451 | 遊記 yóu jì | book of travels | 45 | |
| 3829855452 | 傳記 zhuàn jì | biography | 46 | |
| 3829855453 | 寓言 yù yán | fables; allegory | 47 | |
| 3829855454 | 作家 zuò jiā | writer | 48 | |
| 3829855455 | 作者 zuò zhě | author | 49 | |
| 3829855456 | 詩人 shī rén | poet | 50 | |
| 3829855457 | 名人 míng rén | famous people | 51 | |
| 3829855458 | 讀者 dú zhě | reader | 52 | |
| 3829855459 | 觀眾 guān zhòng | spectator; audience | 53 | |
| 3829855460 | 刻畫 kè huà | characterize | 54 | |
| 3829855461 | 描述 miáo shù | describe | 55 | |
| 3829855462 | 人物 rén wù | character; literary figure | 56 | |
| 3829855463 | 生動 shēng dòng | vividly | 57 | |
| 3829855464 | 反映 fǎn yìng | reflect | 58 | |
| 3829855465 | 現實 xiàn shí | reality; actuality | 59 | |
| 3829855466 | 史書 shǐ shū | historical records | 60 | |
| 3829855467 | 暢銷書 chàng xiāo shū | best seller | 61 |
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AP US History Period 1 Flashcards
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| 7249493625 | maize cultivation | The growing of Indian corn, a staple of many Indians diets, leading many nomadic tribes to settle and develop great civilizations such as the Aztecs incas and Mayans. | 0 | |
| 7249493626 | hunter-gatherer economy | A nomadic way of life with no agriculture focused on following food sources including animals and wild plants | 1 | |
| 7249493627 | western hemisphere | The Americas |  | 2 |
| 7249493628 | west africa | A area of Africa that was previously unreachable until the invention of the caravel by the Portuguese, leading to exploitation of the region for its gold and slaves |  | 3 |
| 7249493629 | plantation-based agriculture | Large scale agriculture worked by slaves | 4 | |
| 7249493630 | capitalism | Economic system based on private investment and possessions | 5 | |
| 7249493631 | Cultural autonomy | Freedom of a group to express ones own culture without outside control i.g. The Christianization of the natives took away there Cultural autonomy | 6 | |
| 7249493632 | great basin | Desert area with no drainage to the ocean |  | 7 |
| 7249493633 | agricultural economy | economy based on the production of crops | 8 | |
| 7249493634 | spanish exploration | Colonization of the Americas by the conquistadors in search for gold, glory and god | 9 | |
| 7249493635 | encomienda system | A government system where natives were given to colonists to work in return for converting them to Christianity. | 10 | |
| 7249493636 | empire building | The Spanish increasing their empire through grafting their culture onto the natives and taking over the land | 11 | |
| 7249493637 | white superiority | The European idea they were superior to other cultures/ races and needed to enforce European culture/religion on them | 12 | |
| 7249493638 | great plains | The open plains of the Midwest where the natives adapted to roming the prairies on horseback | 13 | |
| 7249493639 | permanent villages | The settlements of Indians tribes based on the spread of agriculture | 14 | |
| 7249493640 | Portuguese exploration | Due to advancements in sailing technology the Portuguese were able to sail down the coast of Africa and open trade of gold and slaves, settle and make plantations and eventually find the way around Africa to the indies | 15 | |
| 7249493641 | slave labor | Forced labor of people considered property by the people in charge | 16 | |
| 7249493642 | feudalism | A political, economic, and social system based on the relationship between lord and vassal in order to provide protection | 17 | |
| 7249493643 | political autonomy | the ability of a state to govern themselves without outside control | 18 | |
| 7249493644 | Colombian exchange | the exchange between the new world and the old world consisting of the old world bringing wheat, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, sugar, rice, coffee, smallpox, malaria and yellow fever. while the new world sent gold, silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and syphills |  | 19 |
US AP History Period 1 Flashcards
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| 7732641443 | A land bridge from Asia | How early Americans reached North and South America | 0 | |
| 7732641444 | Nomadic; following food and herds | The lifestyle that encouraged Indians to cross the land bridge | 1 | |
| 7732641445 | Mayan, Inca and Aztecs | The most complex Indian communities living in South America | 2 | |
| 7732641446 | Maize | This crop transformed nomadic hunter-gatherer societies into settled farm communities | 3 | |
| 7732641447 | Silk, Spices, Oils/Perfumes | Items desired from Persia & China | 4 | |
| 7732641448 | God, Gold & Glory | 3 motives for Spanish Exploration | 5 | |
| 7732641449 | Hispaniola | The area in which Columbus landed | 6 | |
| 7732641450 | Treaty of Tordesillas | The agreement settling the dispute between Spain & Portugal for land in the Americas. | 7 | |
| 7732641451 | Semi-permanent settlements | Most people in the Americas lived in this type of settlement by the time of Christopher Columbus. | 8 | |
| 7732641452 | Anasazi; Pueblo | Tribes that settled in the Southwest; had culture based on farming & irrigation systems with permanent buildings | 9 | |
| 7732641453 | Northwest Indians | Lived in permanent longhouses that had a rich diet based on hunting & fishing | 10 | |
| 7732641454 | Great Plains Indians | Tribe that was nomadic OR farmers/traders; hunted buffalo, raised maize, beans & squash | 11 | |
| 7732641455 | What did the Treaty of Tordesillas say? | Divided the trade routes to Asia: Spain gets the route across the Atlantic and Portugal gets the route around Africa. Also, Spain got a lot of land in the New World and Portugal got present-day Brazil. | 12 | |
| 7732641456 | Cortes | Conquered the Aztecs | 13 | |
| 7732641457 | Pizzaro | Conquered the Incas | 14 | |
| 7732641458 | Bartolome de las Casas | Man who stood up for the rights on the natives. | 15 | |
| 7732641459 | Renaissance | Time period that allowed for the invention of gunpowder, the compass and advanced shipbuilding and mapmaking | 16 | |
| 7732641460 | Vasco de Gama | First European to reach India using the route around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope. | 17 | |
| 7732641461 | John Cabot | First explorer sent by England to the New World; explored the North American coast | 18 | |
| 7732641462 | Christopher Columbus | Explorer who won the backing of Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand of Spain to sail west from Europe to the "Indies." | 19 | |
| 7732641463 | Ferdinand Magellan | Explorer who is credited with the 1st circumnavigation of the earth | 20 | |
| 7732641464 | Henry Hudson | While searching for the northwest passage, this explorer sailed up a a broad river to give the Dutch claim | 21 | |
| 7732641465 | Columbian Exchange | Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases (beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes & tobacco) between Old World and New World after the time of Columbus. | 22 | |
| 7732641466 | Corn, beans, squash (3 sister farming) | 3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe? | 23 | |
| 7732641467 | Horses | Animal introduced by the Spanish that changed the lifestyle of the Native American | 24 | |
| 7732641468 | Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, influenza | Diseases from the Old World and went to the New World | 25 | |
| 7732641469 | Syphillis | Disease from the New World to the Old World | 26 | |
| 7732641470 | Valladolid Debate | The argument between Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda over treatment of Indians by the Spanish. | 27 | |
| 7732641471 | Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it; essentially set up slavery for Native Americans | 28 | |
| 7732641472 | Atlantic slave trade | Lasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. 98% of Africans were sent to the Caribbean, South and Central America. | 29 | |
| 7732641473 | Iroquois | A later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests | 30 | |
| 7732641474 | Cherokee | Are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family. | 31 | |
| 7732641475 | Inuit | A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia) |  | 32 |
| 7732641476 | Maya | Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar. | 33 | |
| 7732641477 | Aztec | (1200-1521) 1300, they settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. Worshipped many gods (polytheistic). Believed the sun god needed human blood to continue his journeys across the sky. | 34 | |
| 7732641478 | Inca | Their empire stretched from what is today Ecuador to central Chili in the Andes Mountain region of South America. Called the Children of the Sun. | 35 | |
| 7732641479 | Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins. | 36 | |
| 7732641480 | Nomad | Early, simplistic man that migrated across the land bridge. | 37 | |
| 7732641481 | Martin Luther | Broke away from the Catholic Church because of his 95 problems with the Catholic Church. | 38 | |
| 7732641482 | King Henry VIII | Broke away from the Catholic Church because of his disagreement with his inability to get divorced; which eventually led to civil unrest in his country. | 39 | |
| 7732641483 | New France | Established in Canada and along the Mississippi River, focused on fur trade. | 40 | |
| 7732641484 | Animism | Belief that non-human things possess a spiritual essence | 41 | |
| 7732641485 | Mestizo | People with mixed Indian & European heritage | 42 | |
| 7732641486 | Mulatto | People of mixed white and black ancestry | 43 | |
| 7732641487 | Pope's Rebellion/Pueblo Revolt | 1680 conflict that lead to death of hundreds of Spanish colonists and destruction of Catholic churches in the area | 44 | |
| 7732641488 | Cultural autonomy | Conflicts between Natives and Europeans were for the Natives to maintain this | 45 | |
| 7732641489 | Mercantilism | Economic system in which the colonies exist to enrich the Mother country; attempt to export to colonies more than they import | 46 |
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