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Tenochtitlan – city larger than London or Paris, 150-200 thousand living, built in a lake
Cahokia – Anasazi, drought period ruined them.
Chaco Canyon -
Eurocentric – European point of view
Reconquista – Christian expulsion of Muslim governing elements in Spain. This was achieved in
1492 with the cost of Southern Spain, which had flourished due to contacts in the Muslim world.
Columbian Exchange – First contact between natives and Europeans and Africans
Atlantic World – Refers and tries to draw the attention of people thinking about our history to the
fact that you can’t look at isolation to the pilgrims in Massachusetts or the English in Jamestown
or the Spanish in St. Augustine. Nothing can be looked at in isolation. There was a process of
mediation between all cultures even across the Atlantic. There was a blending of cultures,
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- Fall '07
- Hatfield
- History, US History, Islam, Americas, MWF History Building, Africans Atlantic World
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