Spanish Historical Terms
Native American Words
Thematic Learning Objectives
Historical Thinking Skills
"Bad" Dudes
100
a large landed estate, granted in return for a promise to convert "heathens"
What is encomienda?
100
strings of shells used as money in the best real estate bargain in history
What is wampum?
100
WOR
What is America in the World?
100
putting things into context
What is contextualization?
100
the dude who conquered the Aztecs
Who is Cortez?
200
a document whereby a landed estate is conveyed, literally meaning "proof of merit"
What is probanza de merito?
200
a city built on an island in the middle of a lake where an eagle was seen eating a snake on a cactus
What is Tenoctitlan?
200
WXT
What is work, exchange, technology?
200
breaking history into appropriate time periods
What is periodization?
200
the king who had some wives executed
Who is Henry VIII?
300
a war between Christians and Muslims lasting from 711 to 1492
What is the Reconquista?
300
floating gardens used by the Aztecs
What are chinampas?
300
POL
What is politics and power?
300
a pattern of things staying the same over time, the opposite of change
What is continuity?
300
the dude who led a rebellion in colonial Virginia
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
400
the requisitioning of Indian laborers by the Spanish colonizers
What is repartimiento?
400
the Inca kind murdered by Pizarro
Who is Atahualpa?
400
CUL
What is ideas, beliefs, and culture?
400
this does not establish causation
What is correlation?
400
the dude who had Charles II beheaded during the English Civil War
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
500
how de las Casas characterized the indigenous population of Hispaniola, "gentle sheep"
What are ovejas mansas?
500
the Aztec name for their legendary original homeland, purportedly encompassing California
What is Aztlan?
500
PEO
What is peopling?
500
two or more things that happen at the same time purely by chance, without any cause and effect relationship
What is coincidence?
500
the English called him a privateer, the Spanish a pirate, sailed around the world
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
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