APUSH Period 1-2 Review

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Pre-Columbian Southwest Indians were most noted for which environmental transformation practice?

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Irrigation

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Which region was home to bands of nomadic Native Americans who relied on their game for the vast majority of their needs? Options: The Southwest, The Northwest, The Atlantic Eastern Seaboard, The Great Plains

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The Great Plains

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Agricultural system employed by Native Americans of North America; Maize, beans, and squash were grown together to maximize yields.

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Three-Sister Farming

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American Indian peoples who lived in present-day New Mexico and Arizona and built permanent multi-story adobe dwellings.

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Pueblo

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Dominican friar who supported peaceful conversion of Nation Americans, advocated for Native American rights, and opposed the harsh treatment and forced labor of Native Americans.

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Bartolome de Las Casas

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The exchange of good, crops, and diseases between the Americas (New World) and Europe and Africa (Old World).

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Columbian Exchange

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Spanish soldiers who were central to the conquest of the civilizations of the Americas. Once conquest was complete, they often extracted wealth from the people they came to rule.

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Conquistadores

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Companies formed when investors pooled their money together in exchange for a percentage of ownership on the company through stock. Such arrangements were used to fund England's early colonial efforts.

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Joint-Stock Companies

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Brutal transatlantic voyage of slaves endured between Africa and the American colonies.

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Middle Passage

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Spanish government's policy to give Native Americans to colonists to provide labor and to be converted to Christianity. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue native tribes.

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Encomienda System