Vocab 1
The way a society behaves and its system of beliefs, laws, and customs
What is culture?
A plant that farmers grow to make money
What is cash crop?
What is the early movement and lifestyle patterns of early humans?
What is nomadic hunter-gatherers?
These types of houses were multistoried, apartment-like buildings made of adobe.
What are pueblos?
This Spanish explorer landed in the place he named Florida in 1513.
Who is Juan Ponce De Leon?
The movement of a number of people (or animals), usually to establish a new homeland
What is migration?
A group of people living together as a group.
What is a society?
What allowed nomadic tribes to settle down?
What is agriculture (farming)?
These were created by Native Americans by carving and painting representations of ancestor or animal spirits on long pieces of wood.
What are totem poles?
The mixing of plants, animals, viruses, and bacteria between the Americas and the rest of the world.
What is the Columbian Exchange (Great Biological Exchange)?
An advanced and complicated society
What is a civilization?
Rule by the gods; a government ruled by religion
What is a theocracy?
This early civilization built pyramids and temples; they also developed a 365-day calendar.
What is the Maya civilization?
What is the name of the site of the Mississippian people's largest mound?
What is Monks Mound?
What four major items were Europeans looking for in the new world (the 4 S's)?
What is spices, silk, scents, and stones?
Native to an area.
What is indigenous?
Resistance to a disease or sickness, particularly due to previous exposure to the germs
What is immunity?
This early civilization built the city Machu Picchu for their religious ceremonies.
What is the Incas?
Which indigenous environment was known for its herds of bison?
What is The Great Plains?
What were the 3 main goals of a conquistador (a Spanish explorer and conqueror)?
What is convert people to Christianity, trade for goods, and find lots of gold?
A royal grant of land, including all the people on it
What is an encomienda?
A person appointed by a king or queen to rule an area on his or her behalf
What is viceroy?
This theory explains how early people traveled from Asia into North America.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
What indigenous location had plentiful forests, and lived in Longhouses made of wood? (Hint: Iroquois)
What is the Northeast?
This treaty "split" the world in half between Spain and Portugal.
What is the treaty of Tordesillas?