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FlashCards por Michael Barresi, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Michael Barresi
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| Questão | Responda |
| Tributes | The practice of collecting goods from conquered peoples. The Aztecs and Incas relied on systems of _____ before they were conquered by Spain |
| Cahokia | Major Native American city in modern US. Located in fertile bottomlands of Mississippi River. Already abandoned when Europeans arrived. |
| Chiefdom | One individual claims pre-eminent power in a community. Paramount _____ are when numerous communities with their own local chiefs banded together under a single, more powerful ruler |
| Matriarchal Society | Power Inherited through Female Lines of Authority |
| Animism | Spiritual Beliefs that center on the natural world. |
| Patriarchies | Property and Social Identity descended in male family lines. |
| Moctezuma | Aztec King at time of conquering |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish Explorer who conquered Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered Incas |
| Chattel Slavery | A system of bondage in which a sale has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like propetry. |
| Encomienda | Grant of Indian labor to prominent men. Extracted tribute from these Indians in exchange for granting them protection and Christian instruction |
| House of Burgesses | Organ of government in colonial Virginia made up of an assembly or representative elected by the colony's inhabitants |
| Royal Colony | Colony chartered by the Crown. |
| Freeholds | Land owned in its entirety, without feudal dues or land-lord obligations. |
| Headright System | A system of land distribution, pioneered in Virginia and used in several other colonies, that granted land to anyone who paid the passage of a new arrival. By this means, large planters amassed huge landholdings as they imported large numbers of servants and slaves |
| Indentured Servitude | Workers contracted for service for a specified period.d In exchange for agreeing to work for four or five years without wages, _______ received free passage across the Atlantic, room and board, and status as a free person at the end of the contract period |
| Pilgrims | One of the first Protestant groups to come to America. Seeking separation from Church of England. Founded Plymouth. |
| Joint-Stock Corporation | A financial organization that facilitated the colonization of North America. A number of investors pooled their capital and received shares of a stock in the enterprise in proportion to the share of their total investment |
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