1. CHAPTER ONE NOTES AP US HISTORY MRS. MARSHALL

2.  Ice Age  Bering Strait-between Siberia and Alaska

3. SOUTH AMERICA  Incas  Mayans  Aztecs NORTH AMERICA  Pueblo  Creek  Choctaw  Cherokee  Iroquois

4.  Period of European history  Lasted from about 1300-1600 during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far reaching changes in art, learning and views of the world.

5.  First Europeans to encounter people in Africa and America

6. Consequences from commingling two ecosystems:  Population loss  Conquest  African slavery  Cultural change  Economic expansion

7.  Prince Henry the Navigator  Bartholomeu Dias  Vasco da Gama  Marco Polo

9.  The explosion in international commerce

10.  Vasco Nunez Balboa  Ferdinand Magellan  Juan Ponce de Leon  Francisco Coronado  Hernando de Soto  Francisco Pizarro  Hernan Cortes

11.  1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal

12. Spanish motives for colonization and exploration:  Searching for gold and glory  To spread Christianity

13. Spanish hierarchical social structure Influenced by the authoritarian hierarchy of their religion and of the Spanish government Spanish society in New World was impacted by patterns of migration and a dependence on slave labor Encomiendas-a system of large manors or estates with Indian slaves ruthlessly managed for the benefit of the conqusitadores

14.  Hacienda system-replaced the encomienda system  Peninsulares-native Spaniards  Creoles-of Spanish parentage but born in the New World

15.  England  Explored the northeastern coast of North America in 1497- 98

16.  Cabot was searching for Northwest Passage  1 st European since the Viking voyages to reach the mainland of North America, which he claimed for England

17.  France-1534  Journeyed up the St. Lawrence River