What was the most populated urban complex north of Mexico?
100
Portugal
What was the first European nation to send out voyages of exploration down the west coast of Africa?
100
a revival of interest in classical antiquity and its culture.
What was the main spark or event that triggered the Renaissance?
100
Martin Luther
Who was the person said to be the primary instigator of the Protestant Reformation and the event that is said to mark its beginning?
100
England now had a constitutional monarchy
What was one of the most significant implications of the Glorious Revolution for Britain's North American colonies?
200
Clovis Culture
What is the name historians have given to the culture of some of the America's earliest peoples. The culture is identified by its distinctive stone blades and lance points and precedes that of Folsom culture
200
The Potato
What was the food upon which the Irish had become reliant as a result of the Colombian Exchange and which the lack of due to blight caused a significant famine in the 1840s resulting in large numbers of Irish families immigrating to the United States?
200
mercantilism
what was a set of European economic practices that reflected the thinking that governments should regulate their economies to ensure the maximum inflow of wealth and the minimum outflow of wealth?
200
the reconquista
Was is the name given to the long attempt to "reconquer" portions of the Spanish peninsula and wrest them from Muslim control which was finally completed during the reins of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain?
200
the way in which social class was determined during the colonial era
What is by economic rank?
300
Beringia
What is the name of the land bridge between Asia and North America?
300
ecomienda
What was the system of labor used by Spanish landlords in the Americas?
300
capitalism
What is the name given to a set of economic practices first fully described by Adam Smith in 1776 in "The Wealth of Nations"?
300
the Maryland colony.
What was the name given to England's only Roman Catholic proprietary colony, which was granted to Lord Baltimore in exchange for his serivces to the English king.
300
the Navigation Acts of 1651 and 1696
What were the Acts which defined the role colonies would play within the British empire?
400
a new division of labor and, ultimately, the emergence of classes
What is a consequence of Native American's increasing reliance on settle agriculture?
400
frontier of inclusion
What was the result of friendly relations between Europeans and colonists which often included intermarriage and ethnically mixed communities
400
positivism
What one element of Enlightenment thinking and which emphasized that humans were capable of understanding natural laws and using them to improve their condition?
400
Anglicanism or the Anglican Church
What was the name given to the official religious faith of England which Calvinist Puritans were attempting to "purify"?
400
a major tenet (belief/principle)of the Calvinist Doctrine of Election
What is the tenet (belief/principle) that election (salvation) was only offered to a few at God’s grace.?
500
Private ownership of land and other resources
What was NOT true of the increasing social complexity of the farming communities of America’s Native Peoples?
500
Virgin soil epidemics
What were diseases that aided the Spanish in their conquest of the Americas as their spread through trade weakened many communities of Native peoples before the Spanish even arrived within their region?
500
humans were capable of understanding natural laws and using them to improve their condition.
What is something an Enlightenment thinker would think during the Enlightenment
500
religious toleration
What John Locke’s 1689 “A Letter Concerning Tolerance” advocated?
500
"enumerated goods"
What were goods that during the colonial period the colonists could only buy from England?