This Native American powerhouse was based in the Yucatan Peninsula and were already in steep decline when the Spanish encountered them.
What is the Maya
100
artisan organizations that safeguarded commercial transactions and put forth standards was known as what?
What is Guilds
100
doctrine that was inconsistent with the teachings of the Church?
What is heresy
100
the Spanish first ruled this region in the "New World?"
What is the Caribbean
100
non land-holding elite who had substantial estates belonged to what class?
What is Gentry
200
This native power was housed on Lake Texaco with their magnificent capital Tenochtitlan
What is the Aztecs
200
the exchange of food products between the new and old worlds was known as what?
What is Columbian Exchange
200
Protestant churches can trace their origin back to this man and his 95 thesis?
What is Martin Luther
200
Spanish farms where Native Americans were forced to labor in the fields?
What is Ecomiendas
200
middle-class farmers who owned small farms that they worked with family labor were what class of people?
What is Yeoman farmers
300
These natives, from present-day Ohio, built large burial mounds
What is the Hopewell culture
300
the economic theory used by Queen Elizabeth, in which a nation sells more than it buys so that it can maintain a favorable balance of trade?
What is Mercantilism
300
This large-scale European movement was responsible for making Europe more secular?
What is the Renaissance
300
mixing of Spanish and Indian bloodlines created a mixed-race population known as?
What is Mestizos
300
these migrants signed contracts in which they sold their labor(and freedom) for four or five years in exchange for passage across the Atlantic and the promise of land
What is indentured servants
400
This civilization was home to the last large-scale northern Indian culture
What is Mississippian Culture
400
the influx of American gold and silver, which doubled the money supply in Europe, effectively limited the power of European aristocrats and was known by what term?
What is the Price Revolution
400
the idea that God chosen people for salvation before they are even born?
What is Predestination
400
Espanols, mestizos, enslaved Africans, and Indians all fell into this complicated system in New Spain?
What is a caste system
400
the most deadly weapon the Spanish were able to employ against Natives in the New World was what?
What is disease
500
These natives lived east of the Mississippi and lived in clans and followed a matrilineal system of kinship and inheritance
What is Eastern Woodland Peoples
500
these laws allowed European owners to kick peasants off their lands, fence in their fields, and put sheep to graze there?
What is Enclosure Acts
500
This man was responsible for the Protestant movement in England?
What is King Henry VIII
500
His institutes of the Christian Religion (1536) depicted God as an absolute sovereign who directly governed the affairs of men
What is John Calvin
500
This conquistador was responsible for defeating the mighty Aztec empire?