Key Concepts
Where was the most dramatic episode of witch hunting in the Americas?
What is Salem?
After leading an army to Tenochtitlán and challenging Moctezuma, he took the Aztec empire captive and cut off their food and water supply, causing the empire to fall.
Who is Hermán Cortés?
Was started by Martin Luther and condemned the practices of the Church of England, which divided Protestants from Catholics.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
What was the rebellion in 1675-1676 in Virginia that began when vigilante colonists started a war with neighboring Indians? It started when Governor William Berkeley refused to support them, the rebels formed an army that marched on the capital.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The two main empires in Latin America until 1500.
Who are the Aztecs and Incas?
Was a racial categorized system in the Americas developed to make sense of the complex patterns of the racial mixing that happened there.
An ambitious mariner from Genoa who set sail on three ships and landed on an island in the present-day Bahamas.
Who was Christopher Colombus?
The belief that only one god (In this case, God) is divine.
What is monotheism?
Christian armies undertook ____ to reverse the Muslim advance in Europe because they threatened the power of Christianity.
What were the Crusades?
The land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska
What was the Bering Strait?
A grant of Indian labor in Spanish America given to prominent men by the kings.
What were encomiendas?
This person condemned the Church of England for corrupt practices and stated that Christians should look to the bible itself and not the Priests. He translated the bible into German.
Who is Martin Luther?
The allowance of different religious practices.
What is toleration?
The Native American rebellion/war by the Wampanoag leader that killed 1,000 settlers and diminished the Native population.
What was Metacom's War?
A reaction in the Catholic Church triggered by the Reformation that sought change from within and created new missionary orders such as the Jesuits.
What was the Counter-Reformation?
This territory was where the plantation system was first introduced in the Americas.
What is Brazil?
Iroquois Confederacy originally (name at least 2)
Who are the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas?
Societies who members combined agriculture with hunting and fishing. They occupied large village sites during the summer then dispersed into smaller camps during the winter.
What were semisedentary societies?
The treaty between Spain and Portugal that fixed the boundaries between their respective domains. (It defined where each country could explore and claim lands)
Virginia governor who Nathanial Bacon was against and wanted to overthrow.
Who was William Berkeley?
The three territories of Neo-European colonization in the early 17th century.
What were New France, New Netherland, and New England?
English seafarers who were sponsored by Queen Elizabeth I, and took aggressive action against the Spanish control of American wealth.
Who were sea dogs?
People who believed that the natural world was spread with spiritual power.
What are animists?
A revolt against Spanish rule that drove the Spaniards out of New Mexico.
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
This country was center for Islamic learning and instruction.
What is Timbuktu?