APUSH - Ch. 1, 2, & 3 terms
Three-sister farming - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Agricultural system employed by
North American Indians as early as 1000ce; maize, beans, and squash
were grown together to maximize yields.
Capitalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔economic system characterized by private
property, generally free trade, and open and accessible markets. European
colonization of the Americas, and in particular, the discovery of vast bullion
deposits, helped bring about Europe's transition to capitalism
Crusades - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔They wanted the Holy Land
Encomienda - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Spanish government's policy to "commend,"
or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize
them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the West
Indies and on the North American mainland.
, Bartolome de Las Casas - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Spanish missionary who was
appalled by the encomienda system in Hispaniola, called it "a moral
pestilence invented by Satan."
Christopher Columbus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔skilled Italian seafarer who
persuaded the Spanish monarchs to outfit him with three tiny but seaworthy
ships, manned by a motley crew. Headed westward. Founded the
Bahamas on October 12, 1492. He failed to land in the Indies.
Protestant Reformation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔movement to reform the Catholic
Church launched in Germany by Martin Luther. Reformers questioned the
authority of the Pope, sought to eliminate the selling of indulgences, and
encouraged the translation of the Bible from Latin, which few at the time
could read. The reformation was launched in England in the 1530s when
King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church
Roanoke Island - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sir Walter Raleigh's failed colonial
settlement off the coast of North Carolina.
Spanish Armada - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Spanish fleet defeated in the English
Channel in 1588. The defeat of the Armada marked the beginning of the
decline of the Spanish Empire
Three-sister farming - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Agricultural system employed by
North American Indians as early as 1000ce; maize, beans, and squash
were grown together to maximize yields.
Capitalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔economic system characterized by private
property, generally free trade, and open and accessible markets. European
colonization of the Americas, and in particular, the discovery of vast bullion
deposits, helped bring about Europe's transition to capitalism
Crusades - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔They wanted the Holy Land
Encomienda - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Spanish government's policy to "commend,"
or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize
them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the West
Indies and on the North American mainland.
, Bartolome de Las Casas - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Spanish missionary who was
appalled by the encomienda system in Hispaniola, called it "a moral
pestilence invented by Satan."
Christopher Columbus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔skilled Italian seafarer who
persuaded the Spanish monarchs to outfit him with three tiny but seaworthy
ships, manned by a motley crew. Headed westward. Founded the
Bahamas on October 12, 1492. He failed to land in the Indies.
Protestant Reformation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔movement to reform the Catholic
Church launched in Germany by Martin Luther. Reformers questioned the
authority of the Pope, sought to eliminate the selling of indulgences, and
encouraged the translation of the Bible from Latin, which few at the time
could read. The reformation was launched in England in the 1530s when
King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church
Roanoke Island - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sir Walter Raleigh's failed colonial
settlement off the coast of North Carolina.
Spanish Armada - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Spanish fleet defeated in the English
Channel in 1588. The defeat of the Armada marked the beginning of the
decline of the Spanish Empire
