Chapter 1 America before Columbus Ch. 1

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Archaic Period	Is a scholarly term for the history of humans in America during a period of about 5,000 years beginning around 8,000 B.C.
Black Death	A catastrophic epidemic of the bubonic plague that began in Constantinople in 1347.
Cahokia	A major city on a peak 1200 A.D. population about 10,000.
Christopher Columbus	Found the New World in 1492 for funded by Spain.
Clovis people	Migrants that crossed the Bering Strait to then settle in the Americas.
Conquistadores	A Spanish ruthless brutal conqueror.
Coureurs De Bois	Adventurous fur traders and trappers.
Encomienda	Licenses to get labor and tribute from natives.
Henry Hudson	An English explorer employed by the Dutch.
Jamestown	First enduring English settlement in Virginia 1607.
Matrilineal	Inheritance inherited by the mother.
Meso-Americans	The people who now live in Mexico.
Mestizos	People of mixed race people.
Protestant Reformation	Germany 1517 Martin Luther wrote 95 things against the Roman Catholic Church.
Puritans	Ardent people who hoped to purify the church.
Roanoke	A tribe named by Raleigh which lived in today North Carolina.
Samuel de Champlain	Founder of Quebec and led an attack on the Iroquois in 1609.
Separatists	Radical people with own ways of worship.
Seigneuries	Agricultural estates along the St. Lawrence River
Sir Humphrey Gilbert	Veteran of earlier colonial efforts. Went for land but was lost at sea.
Sir Walter Raleigh	Friend of Queen Elizabeth and earlier colonial efforts.
Tenochttlan	A city named by the Mexica in 1300 A.D.

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