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AP Exam Vocab • Cahokia – One of the largest urban centers created by Mississippian people, containing 30,000 residents in 1250. • Transoceanic migrations- a population migration across oceans • Beringia- a subcontinent bridging Asia and North America, named after the Bering Straits. • Athapascan- A people that began to settle the forests in the northwestern area of North America around 5000 B.C.E. • Clovis tradition-A powerful new and sophisticated style of tool making, unlike anything found in the old world • Pleistocene Overkill- Intensified hunting efforts brought on in response to lowered reproduction and survival rates of large animals • Archaic period- the period roughly 10,000 to 2,500 years ago marked by the retreat of glaciers. • Clans- groups of allied families • Mesoamerica-The region stretching from central Mexico to Central America • Aztecs- A warrior people who dominated the Valley of Mexico from 1100 to 1521 • Rancherias- dispersed settlements of Indian farmers in the southwest • Kachinas – Impersonations of the ancestral spirits by Southwest Indians • Feudalism- A medieval European social system in which land was divided into hundreds of small holdings • Renaissance- The intellectual and artistic flowering of Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries sparked by a revival of interest in classical antiquity • Reconquista- the long struggle (ending in 1492) during which Spanish Christians reconquered the Iberian peninsula from Muslim occupiers • Treaty of Tordesillas- Treaty negotiated by the pope in 1494 to resolve the territorial claims of Spain and Portugal • Protestant Reformation – Martin Luther’s challenge to the Catholic Church, initiated in 1517, calling for a return to what he understood to be the purer practices and beliefs of the early church • Predestination- the belief that God decided at the moment of Creation which humans