Pre-Columbian America & Initial European Exploration by https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4 AMSCO Chapter 1 en-us 2018-09-16 16:32:10 UTC 2023-03-02 02:29:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Optimplaces.png Mayas- From A.D. 300 to 800, this highly developed civilization built large cities in what is today's southern Mexico and Guatemala. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281963082 2018-09-16 16:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281963082 Aztecs- Starting about 1300, this civilization flourished in central Mexico. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281963229 2018-09-16 16:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281963229 Incas- This highly developed civilization developed a vast South American empire based in Peru. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281963329 2018-09-16 16:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281963329 Great Basin-Arid region of the southwest United States including Nevada, Arizona and Utah. Great Plains-A vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, from the Mississippi River in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281963442 2018-09-16 16:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281963442 Atlantic Seaboard-Societies developed a mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economy that favored the development of permanent villages eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281965772 2018-09-16 16:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281965772 Mississippi River Valley-In Eastern Woodlands; was an agricultural society; grew "3 sisters" crops (squash, beans, and corn); were mound builders eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281966756 2018-09-16 16:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281966756 Renaissance-A great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas in art, that began in Italy in the late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281968664 2018-09-16 16:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281968664 Christopher Columbus- Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281969307 2018-09-16 16:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281969307 Columbian Exchange- The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and Old World societies after 1492. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281969608 2018-09-16 16:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281969608 Treaty of Tordesillas-A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281969954 2018-09-16 16:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281969954 Conquistadors- 16th century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas, from Colorado to Argentina, eventually conquering the Aztec and Incan empires. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281970439 2018-09-16 17:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281970439 Encomienda System-Spanish government's policy to "commend," or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the West Indies and on the North American mainland. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281971118 2018-09-16 17:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281971118 Triangular Trade-involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities, which were in turn shipped back to Britain. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281971808 2018-09-16 17:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281971808 Crusades-Series of military campaigns by European Christians from 1096 to 1204 to win control of the Holy Land from the Muslims eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281972340 2018-09-16 17:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281972340 Line of Demarcation-Boundary established by the Pope that gave unclaimed lands west of the line to Spain and east of it to Portugal eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281973646 2018-09-16 17:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281973646 Middle Passage- was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281974328 2018-09-16 17:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281974328 Roanoke-In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to establish a settlement here, but it failed eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281975364 2018-09-16 17:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281975364 Bartolome de Las Casas- A Catholic missionary who renounced the Spanish practice of coercively converting Indians and advocated the better treatment for them. In 1552, he wrote "A Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies", which described the Spanish's cruel treatment of the Indians. eboutsikakis https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281975695 2018-09-16 17:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/eboutsikakis/16c469pbtea4/wish/281975695