| A | B |
|---|
| potlatch | dinner held to show wealth and improve rank in the tribe |
| manor | center of life during the middle ages |
| Balboa | First European to se the Pacific Ocean, and claimed it for Spain |
| Panama Isthmus | Connects N and S America |
| Isabella | Columbus's journey was funded by her, the Queen of Spain |
| Tenochtitlan | Aztec Capital city |
| Crusades | Wars fought to free the holy lands |
| Cortez | Defeated the Aztecs |
| Ponce deLeon | Searched for the Fountain of Youth |
| Longitude | Lines on map that go E and W (Prime Merdian) |
| Pizzaro | Defeated the Incas |
| Quakers | Believed that all men and women are equal in the eyes of God |
| Eastern Us. | Applanchian mtns. are found here |
| Natural broder of Canada and the US | Great Lakes, St Lawerence River |
| Carbon Dating | method used to DATE artifacts |
| Vinland | What Leif Ericson named his Viking settlement in North America |
| Cartographer | mapmaker |
| Date Columbus discovered America | October 1492 |
| Amerigo Vespucci | America was named after him |
| Latitude | Lineson a map that go N and S (equator) |
| Martin Luther | Started Protestant Reformation |
| Ohio River Valley | Frenched and Indian war started here in part for control of the fur trade |
| Hemispheres | The Prime Merdian and the Equator divide the world into- |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | First public schools were set up in this colony |
| Gutenburg | The inventor of the movable type and the printing press |
| Mississippi River | Longest river system in North America |
| Feudalism | Lords owing their loyalty to the king in return for land |
| Anne Hutchinson | Kicked out of Mass. Bay Colony for saying that GOD had spoken to her |
| Merchantilism | Expanding trade and building up gold supply is known as the theory of- |
| Indentured Servant | Worked 3-7 years to pay for their voyage to the colonies- |
| Middle Passage | Trip from Africa to the colonies by the slaves- |
| Toleration | Allowing others to practice their own beliefs- |
| Shipbuilding | Because of the forest it became a major industry in New England |
| Anasazis | The ancient ones, built homes under cliffs- |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or Give me death" |
| Herons, Algonquins | Indian allies to the French |
| Meetinghouse | Most important building in a New England town- |
| Archeaology | Study of evidence left behind by earlier people- |
| Toleration Acts | Maryland passed this act to protect religious beliefs |
| Renaissance | Rebirth of learning in Europe |
| Navigational Acts | Tobacco, sugar, and cotton were made enumerated articles in the- |
| Ben Franklin | Albany Plan of Union was proposed by who as an attempt to unite the colonies for defense |
| Yankees | Clever hard working New England merchants- |
| Breadbasket Colonies | MIddle colonies, because of the grain they grew, were known as the- |
