American Yawp - Chapter 1 The New World written material Questions With Complete Solutions

Cahokia - correct answer ---the largest and most influential settlement of the Mississippian mound building culture pueblo - correct answer ---A communal multistoried dwelling made of stone or adobe brick by the Native Americans of the Southwest Iroquois - correct answer ---A term which designates a confederacy of five tribes originally inhabiting the northern part of New York state, consisting of the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga and Mohawk. Lenapes/Delaware Indians - correct answer ---Matrilineal tribe in present-day Pennsylvania and New Jersey Arawaks - correct answer ---First Amerindians to have contact with Spanish encomiendas - correct answer ---Grants of Indian laborers made to Spanish conquerors and settlers in Mesoamerica and South America; basis for earliest forms of coerced labor in Spanish colonies. Bartoleme de las Casas - correct answer ---a Spanish priest who spoke out against the encomienda system and suggested slavery of Africans as an alternative Tenonchtitlan - correct answer ---Capital of Aztec Empire until captured by Spanish in 1521 Aztec - correct answer ---A Mesoamerican civilization of Mexico who created a strong empire that flourished between the 14th and 15th century. The arrival of Hernando Cortez and the Spanish Conquistadores ended their empire. Inca - correct answer ---Largest civiliazation in pre-Columbian America in the Andean mountain range of South America peninsulares - correct answer ---Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class. criollos - correct answer ---Spaniards born in the New World mestizos - correct answer ---people of Native American and European descent