Chapter 1

Question 1

How were the Indians more/less advanced than the Euorpeans

Answer 1

More- Agriculture, medicine, math

Less- metal-working, the wheel, no written language

Question 2

What were some principles of Native American culture?

Answer 2

• Tribe lifestyle (less individualistic)
• Ownership of land was a foreign concept
• Some tribes were matriarchal

Question 3

Why did the Europeans move West?

Answer 3

1. financial motivation- porcelain, gold, silk, spices
2. Spirit of the Renaissance (rebirth)
3. The rise of Nation-States- Kings w/ power
4. New inventions and technology- magnetic compass, caravel

Question 4

Christopher Columbus sails for _________ from Italy

Answer 4

Asia

Question 5

Treaty of Todesillas

Answer 5

Divided all newly discovered lands between Spain and Columbus

Question 6

Vasco Balboa

Answer 6

First European to see Pacific

Question 7

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 7

First expedition to circumnavigate the world

Question 8

Juan Ponce de Leon

Answer 8

Explored Florida looking for gold and the Fountain of Youth

Question 9

Hernando de Soto

Answer 9

Searched for gold, but became the first to see the Mississippi River

Question 10

Francisco Coronado

Answer 10

Searched for the Seven Cities of Gold

Question 11

John Cabot

Answer 11

Exploreed the Atlantic Coast for England

Question 12

Jacques Cartier

Answer 12

sailed up the St. Lawrence river for France

Question 13

Henry Hudson

Answer 13

Explored Atlantic coast for Dutch

Question 14

Impact of Columbus on Europe

Answer 14

• Spain becomes world power
• starts land rush
• early capitalism

Question 15

Hernandez Cortez captures ______

Answer 15

Aztec Empire

Question 16

Spanish Political Hierarchy

Answer 16

1. Spain (Madrid)- King
2. New Spain- Viceroy
3. Province of Mexico- Governor (Juan de Onate)

Question 17

Conquistador

Answer 17

Spanish explorers who defeated the Indians and expanded the Spanish empire

Question 18

Mestizoes

Answer 18

Spanish and Indian race

Question 19

Encomienda System

Answer 19

Spanish labor system where Spaniards were granted “trusteeship” over the local Indian people

Question 20

Requerimiento

Answer 20

Document that asserted Spanish dominance over Indians and forced them to convert to Christianity

Question 21

Black Legend

Answer 21

Historical view that over emphasizes the negative aspects of conquest

Question 22

Missions

Answer 22

Complexes established by Spanish to provide conversion of Indians and expand control of Spaniards

Question 23

Pueblo Revolt (popet’s rebellion)

Answer 23

Indians revolt against spanish