HISTORY TERMS
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- Crusades
- A series of military expeditions launched by Christian Europeans to win the Holy land back from Muslim control.
- Saga
- epic story told by the vikings (oral tradition)
- Land Bridge Theory
- Theory that a bridge formed which connected North America to Asia
- Indigenous
- Native
- Adobe
- sun-dried brick
- Norsemen
- Vikings (first Europeans to reach North America)
- Glacier
- huge mass of ice
- Northwest passage
- A sea route through North America to Asia
- Sister Crops
- corns, beans, squash
- Long House
- large house built by Indians in which eight or ten families lived
- Avignon Papacy
- when two popes ruled at the same time in Avignon, France
- Cartographer
- a person who makes maps
- Polytheism
- belief in multiple Gods
- Republic
- a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
- Excommunication
- expelling someone from the church
- Theocracy
- government run by religious leaders
- Terrace Gardening
- Vertical faming on mountains or hills
- Primogeniture
- 1st child born inherits all riches of father (other children left out)
- Artifact
- remains made by humans that were left behind
- Prejudice
- A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts
- Spanish Armada
- unbeatable group of spanish naval ships that they english beat
- Discrimination
- Unfair treatment because of a person's race, sex, religion, age, or physical condition
- Sea Dog
- a man who serves as a leagal pirate
- Renaissance
- the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world
- Teepee
- a native American tent
- Columbian Exchange
- The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans
- Slash and burn
- a way of clearing fields for planting by cutting trees, brush, and grasses and burning them.
- Conquistador
- a spanish conquerer
- Nomad
- a person who wonders from place to place
- Infidel
- a person who does not acknowledge your God
- Protestant Reformation
- Movement that swept through Europe and began Protestant religions
- Coureurs de bois
- typically french fur traders
- Monotheism
- belief in one God
- Caravel
- Ship that allows boat to sail into wind
- Maize
- corn
- Chinampas
- floating gardens
- Sedentary
- settled in one spot
- Vinland
- name the Vikings gave to America
- Reservation
- the act of keeping back