Chapter 1: Three Old Worlds Create A New 1492-1600 Flashcards

1448545615	hierarchal	classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers	1
1448545616	egalitarian	A person who believes in the equality of all people	2
1448545617	matrilineal	relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother	3
1448545618	patrilineal	based on or tracing descent through the male line	4
1448545619	polytheistic	Belief in many gods	5
1448545620	mestizo	A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry	6
1448545621	Dual Sex Principle	women ruled women and men ruled men; actions were subject to scrutiny by members of their own sex	7
1448545622	Pueblo	a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States	8
1448545623	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	9
1448545624	Madeira Plantation	plantation captured by Brazil primarily used for sugar production	10
1448545625	Columbus	Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)	11
1448545626	John Cabot	English explorer who claimed Newfoundland for England while looking for Northwest Passage	12
1448545627	Treaty of Tordesilla	1494 agreement authorized by the pope, dividing all discoveries in the New World btwn Spain & Portugal; other European countries soon ignored this agreement and claimed their own territories.	13
1448545628	Taino People	lived in villages and grew corn, yams, and cotton, which they wove into cloth. They were friendly and open toward the Spanish, but they were soon brutally conquered by them.	14
1448545629	Conquistadors	Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.)	15
1448545630	Encomienda System	A system whereby the Spanish crown granted the conquerors the right to forcibly employ groups of Indians; it was a disguised form of slavery.	16
1448545631	Trans-Saharan Trade	The trade route that streches across the Sahara desert	17
1448545632	Columbian Exchange	An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.	18
1448545633	Hernan Cortes	1485-1547, Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico	19