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What is Archaeology
The study of ancient peoples?
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Who was Marco Polo?
Influenced the Christopher Columbus to be an explorer, allowed mapmakers to identify physical geographic features, brought the compass back to Europe, and promoted the usage of coal, gunpowder, and paper money
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What was the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
Vanished after settling in the New World
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What was the Stamp Act?
A tax on all printed goods - Newspapers, pamphlets, Wills, playing cards
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Who were Loyalists?
American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence
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What are artifacts? weapons, tools, and other things made by humans called?
Weapons, tools, and other things made by humans
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What was Spain?
Financed or paid for Columbus' journey across the Atlantic
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What was Jamestown?
First permanent English settlement in North America, 1607, an economic venture by the Virginia Company
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What was the Boston Massacre?
The first bloodshed of the American Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five colonists
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What are unalienable rights?
Rights that can't be taken away from somebody no matter what
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What is Beringia?
The land bridge called that connected Asia and North America?
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What is the Columbian Exchange?
Financed or paid for Columbus' journey across the Atlantic
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What was the House of Burgesses?
The first elected assembly in colonial America; first form of government to make laws in Jamestown
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What were the Intolerable Acts?
The laws called that were passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party
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What is guerilla warfare?
The type of fighting in which soldiers use swift hit-and-run attacks against the enemy
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What is Maize?
The early form of corn called that was grown by Native Americans?
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What were the two pillars of exploration?
New Trade Routes (Economy) and Christianity (Religion)
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What are charters?
Documents that grant people the right to organize settlements in an area
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What was the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The first battle of the American Revolution
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Who was General Cornwallis?
The British General who fought the Patriots in the South and was surrounded and surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown
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What was Cuzco?
The capitol city of the Incan Empire
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What is "The man with a million stories"?
"il milione"
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What is a proprietary colony?
A colony in which the owner owned all the land and controlled the government
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What were the Townshend Acts?
New set of taxes placed on goods that were imported to the colonies; taxed common goods used by the colonists such as tea, glass, and paper; Colonists believed that only they should tax themselves
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Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The author of the Declaration of Independence
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