VITALAPUSH KEY TERMS |STUDY SET| with 100% Correct Answers

VITALAPUSH KEY TERMS |STUDY SET| with 100% Correct Answers Cahokia ("Mississippi Culture") *Ans* Largest North American city located in St.Louis, Eastern Woodland society which farmed corn and grains in the fertile valleys of the Mississippi River and established cities made of earthen mound " Iroquois Confederacy *Ans* Union of several Iroquois tribes - Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida, under the beginnings of a representative government, maintained control of the Great Lakes Region Prince Henry the Navigator *Ans* Noted for his focus on promoting exploration. His efforts made Portugal into a main force of the seas. To advance his nation in the naval exploration, he founded navigation schools. Only the brightest of the Portuguese were accepted to these schools. Christopher Columbus *Ans* Explorer who was instrumental in Spanish colonization of the Americas. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Europe (the Vikings had reached Canada many years earlier, led by Leif Ericsson), Columbus' voyages led to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World Amerigo Vespucci *Ans* An Italian explorer, Vespucci published a wildly popular account of his voyages in the New World near the North American continent in 1503. Conquistadors *Ans* Spanish explorers who searched for treasure in Mexico and brutally conquered entire civilizations (Incas, Aztecs) in hopes to fulfill their greed for wealth Missions *Ans* Established by the Spanish to bring Catholicism to Native Americans who were required to learn the Spanish language, as well as Catholic teachings. Treaty of Tordesillas *Ans* An agreement between Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line at the 45 degree parallel in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal St. Augustine *Ans* Spanish fort established in 1565 at St. Augustine, Florida; became the first permanent European settlement in the US; served as a military outpost, admin. Center for missionaries & headquarters for unsuccessful campaigns against Natives Encomiendas System *Ans* System permitting the conquering Spaniards of the New World to collect tribute and labor from the natives, nominally in return for the settlers "civilizing" the natives Bartolome de Las Casas *Ans* Spanish monk who exposed and declaimed Spanish brutality in the New World, especially the encomiendas system Pueblo Revolt (1680) *Ans* Successful uprising of Indians in Northwest America to protest Spanish hostilities and oppression and expelled the Spanish colony there for twelve years. Mestizo *Ans* Person of mixed Native American and European ancestry, mostly used in Mexico. Columbian Exchange *Ans* Trade of livestock, produce, ideas, and disease between the Old Worlds of Europe and Africa and the New World in the Americas. Matrilineal Society *Ans* Society which traces parentage through the mothers' line, practiced by Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands and usually designating women's importance to the society "Atlantic World" *Ans* Interactions between people and empires bordering the Atlantic Ocean; brought together by economic opportunity, religion, etc