Chapter 6 Flashcards
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Neatly divided the world into land, people and resources with an imaginary line down the middle. One side was for the Spanish, the other for the Portuguese.
What was a Galleon?
A type of ship sailed by mostly the Spanish from the 15th to the 17th century, first as a warship then as a trade ship.
What part of the world was known as “New Spain”? Why did the Spanish government
encourage people to settle there?
Central and south America were claimed as New Spain, and people were encouraged to settle by being granted in in expense for their work in the mines
How were the indigenous people in New Spain treated according to Bartolome de Las
Casas?
Horribly. Natives were exploited and used to work in the mines.
What were the Leyes Nuevas?
Rules that gave indigenous peoples more rights; like going to the bathroom, being given food and water, receiving breaks.
Why do you think the settlers in New Spain would want Leyes
Nuevas repealed or withdrawn, and what does this suggest about their worldview?
They disliked anyone that was different from themselves, and if they were freed from their duties, would they still be of worth?
Why were the English ships ideal for attacks on the Spanish galleons?
They were easily maneuverable and small with a quick speed, which greatly outspeed the Galleons. Queen Elizabeth gained most of the wealth.
Why was Francis Drake called, “the master thief of the unknown world”?
He was the one who raided the ships, and made the gold hild, which was made of stolen silver and gold from Spanish galleons.
The Inca and Aztecs had thriving civilizations in what we now know as Central and South
America. What were some of the results of European Imperialism?
One tenth of the Americas population remained after the 1600’s, Around 90 million indigenous peoples died, millions died of diseases (smallpox, Measles, cholera, bubonic plague, yellow fever, malaria) brought by the Europeans of which they had no immunity to, many indigenous cultures sputtered out; like the Beothuk and Inca.
What were three significant things Europeans learned during the Age of Exploration.
- They learned that sea monsters were fiction
- Everywhere people looked similar to themselves
- The world was different than how their pompous brains imagined it.
What was one thing that France, England, and The Netherlands all discovered during this
Age of Exploration?
Through imperialism countries could gain wealth and power.
What happened in 1945?
In 1945 the United Kingdom’s Charter was signed.
Expansionism and imperialism had many negative consequences for the Indigenous peoples.
Describe why this was.
While the Europeans expanded and took more land for themselves ,this intruded on the land that the indigenous peoples did not own, but lived on. As the Europeans took it for themselves, their lives likely became harder- food was scarcer, patrols, dirty waters, etc.
The printing press made illustrated books about Indigenous peoples available to
Europeans. How did these books portray them?
As closer to nature than Europeans.
