Exploration presentations

Question 1

Inca Empire

Answer 1

-Peru (other parts of South America)
-King Pachacuti (9th and most important Inca ruler)
-Francisco Pizzaro led Spanish Conquest
-3 events that led to fall: foreign disease, civil wars, Spanish conquest

Question 2

The Aztecs

Answer 2

-settled in Mexico
-Were advanced economically and socially, insuring superiority
-Led by Hernando Cortes
-Small pox affected the Aztecs
-After Spanish, population was demolished by 75-80%

Question 3

Pirates

Answer 3

-Seaman who robs/destroys any ship at sea or on shore
-4 types of pirates: thievery, for hire, murdering, exploring
-Anne Bonny, Blackbeard = famous pirates
-Best place = Atlantic ocean
-Reasons = treaty of Todrdesilla, unemployment, seeing the world

Question 4

Exploration of China

Answer 4

• Matteo Ricci = Jesuit missionari and a Roman Catholic priests, entered Beijing, crucial link of transfer of knowledge between Europe and China
• Commercial change influenced English, Dutch, Portuguese
  -China became interested in silver

Question 5

Christopher Columbus

Answer 5

-Isabella and Ferdinand II of Spain funded the trip
- 3rd voyage, Columbus reached mainland
-3 contributions: transfer of food and animal, raw materials, exploration
3 consequences: colonization, disease, salvery

Question 6

Trade Companies

Answer 6

-4 companies: Hudson bay (furs for food, blankets, metal), French East Indian (coffee, textiles, spices), Dutch United East (cinnamon, other spices), East Indian (tea, cotton, spices)
-affect on economy : facilitated expansion of global trade, introducing new products

Question 7

Origins of Slavery in Africa

Answer 7

-Portugal and Spain = big dominators
- Atlantic slave trade (most well known form, bringing Africans to Americas)
-African tribes sold other africans
- Americas needed more labour

Question 8

Inventions

Answer 8

-Telescope (claimed by Galileo, made by Hans Lippershey)
- Thermometer (claimed by Galelio, made by Santorio Santorio)
-Caravel (claimed by kingdoms of Portugal and Spain, made by people of the Iberian Peninsula)

Question 9

Japan

Answer 9

-Roman Catholic religious order founded by St.Francis
-Came to Japan to negotiate a peace treaty for the Philippines( Peter baptist)
-Japan viewed Europe to be barbaric and greedy
-Banned foreign trade and Christianity (265 year long Sakoku period of isolation)

Question 10

Sir Walter Raleigh

Answer 10

-English Explorer, knighted by Queen Elizabeth
-Accused of treason by King James
-Landed in Virginia and Venezuela
Contributions: introduced potatoes, introduced tobacco, founded North Carolina

Question 11

Sir Walter Raleigh

Answer 11

-English Explorer, knighted by Queen Elizabeth
-Accused of treason by King James
-Landed in Virginia and Venezuela
Contributions: introduced potatoes, introduced tobacco, founded North Carolina