American Pageant Ch. 1 Terms

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SAT US History Flashcards on American Pageant Ch. 1 Terms, created by Anta Cisse-Graham on 14/01/2018.
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Incas in Peru and had advanced agricultural practices
Mayans in Central America and also had advanced agricultural practices
Aztecs in Mexico and sought the favor of their gods by providing human sacrifices regularly
Pueblos constructed integrate irrigation systems to water their cornfields
Creeks, Choctaws, and Cherokees had a high population density
Iroquois Confederacy developed the political and organizational skills to sustain a robust military alliance that menaced its neighbors, both Native American and Europeans alike for over a century
Vinland (Newfoundland today) land where seafarers from Scandinavia landed
Portuguese slave trade trading posts along the shores of Africa to trade gold and slaves, created by the Portuguese
Vasco da Gama Portuguese explorer who reached India
Columbus Italian Seafarer who convinced Spanish Monarchs to fund his expeditions to find new routes to Asia
Hispaniola where the population of the Taino Natives dwindled
Old World diseases smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) secured Spains claim to Columbus' discovery
Vasco Nunez Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan explorer who became the first to circumnavigate the globe; started in Spain
Juan Ponce de Leon Spaniards who explored Florida
Hernando de Soto discovered and crossed the Mississippi River; mistreated the Indians
Hernán Cortés signed contracts to Spanish monarchs; lust to get rich; set sail from Cuba bound for Mexico
John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) sent by the English to explore the north-eastern coast of North America in 1497 and 1498
Giovanni da Verranzzano Italian Mariner dispatched by the French king to probe the eastern seaboard in 1524
Robert de la Salle sent on an expedition down the Mississippi River by the French
Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo explored the California coast in 1542 but failed to find anything of much interest
Father Junipero Serra led Spanish missionaries in 1769 and found California's first mission at San Diego
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