APUSH Ch 1 ID's
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- Coureurs de bois
- fur traders and trappers, they penetrated far into the American wilderness
- Mercantilism
- a concept of economic life: increase the nation's wealth by extracting wealth from foreign countries, the world's wealth is finite
- Mali
- a large empire in West Africa
- merchant capitalists
- helped create a domestic cloth industry that allowed them to market finished goods at home and abroad
- Plantations
- They gave the English the assumptions they used to deal with the Native Americans
- Pueblo Indians
- late 1500's-1600's
- Iroquois Confederation
- first emerged in the mid 15th century
- Sea Dogs
- They built confidence in England's ability to challenge Spain's navy, allowing them to become the top maritime power
- Iroquois Confederation
- most elaborately organized group
- Separatists
- 1550-1600's
- merchant capitalists
- 1500-1600's
- enclosures
- cause a serious problem of over-population and thousands of evicted tenants
- Mali
- its main city, Timbuktu, was known as a center of trading an a seat of education, showing that Africans were not savages like the Europeans thought
- Sea Dogs
- pirates hired by a country to defeat certain ships
- Tenochtitlan
- population of over 100,000 in 1500
- Huguenots
- an alternative to Catholicism, spread quickly through northern Europe
- mestizos
- A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory
- Black Death
- an epidemic of the bubonic plague
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Florentine merchant, member of a Portuguese expedition to the New World
- mestizos
- 1500-1600's
- Mali
- 1100-1400's
- Black Death
- began in Constantinople in 1347
- Amerigo Vespucci
- 1490's to early 1500's
- Francisco Pizarro
- 1532-1538
- enclosures
- 1516-early 1600's
- Sea Dogs
- 1570-1580's
- Coureurs de bois
- early 1600's, started in 1608
- Huguenots
- French protestants, believed everyone's destiny is pre-determined
- Pueblo Indians
- Indians that lived in present day New Mexico
- Iroquois Confederation
- a group of First Nations/Native Americans that originally consisted of five nations: the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, and the Seneca.
- Separatists
- very radical Puritans, determined to worship as they saw fit
- Plantations
- transplantations of English society in Ireland
- Plantations
- 1560-1570's
- Francisco Pizarro
- revealed to Europe the Inca's wealth and opened the way for more advances into South America
- Mercantilism
- 1500-1600's
- Coureurs de bois
- they developed a large trade that became one of the major supports of French colonial economy, helped open the way for more French presence in North America
- Tenochtitlan
- capital city of the Aztec empire, located where Mexico city stands now
- John Cabot
- sailed to the NE coast of North America in 1497
- Black Death
- killed more than 1/3 of the people in Europe, took 1 1/2 centuries to recover from
- Amerigo Vespucci
- First person to realize America was a new continent, America was named after him instead of Columbus
- mestizos
- an elaborate hierarchy was created because of these; spanish at the top, these in the middle and natives at the bottom
- Don Juan de Onate
- His harsh treatment of the natives threatened his colony's stability, and was removed from governor in 1606
- John Cabot
- England's first documented contact with America
- Tenochtitlan
- larger than any European city at that time
- enclosures
- English landowners evicted their tenants to make a bigger profit off of sheep
- Don Juan de Onate
- 1598-1606
- Francisco Pizarro
- Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Portuguese prince who thought that explorers could find a shortcut around Africa to Asia
- Huguenots
- 1520's
- John Cabot
- an English navigator, native of Genoa like Columbus
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- explored the western coast of Africa and largely helped Portugal become the top maritime power in the 1400's
- Separatists
- worshiped unlawfully: England forbid unauthorized religious meetings, they rejected assumptions about the proper religious roles of women
- Pueblo Indians
- "conquered" by Don Juan's party, almost destroyed the Spanish colony in a 1680 revolt, finally permitted by the Spanish to own land and were assimilated
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- 1400's
- Mercantilism
- enhanced the position of merchant capitalists, these principles guided the economic policies in almost all European nation-states
- Don Juan de Onate
- Spanish conquistador, claimed lands of the Pueblo Indians
- merchant capitalists
- merchants who believed in Mercantilism