Final - November 7 - The Limits of Conquest: resistance and expansion

Question 1

The Conquest of the Inca Empire (full slide)

Answer 1

The Rise (and Crisis) of the Inca Empire: The Death of Huayna Capac and the civil war between Huascar and Atahualpa
The Pizarro and Almagro expedition
The conquistadors: Social origins and aspirations
The events at Cajamarca and the capture of the Inca

Question 2

explain The conquistadors: Social origins and aspirations

Answer 2

what makes it possible to bring down empire with 100(?) conquistadors

Question 3

After Cajamarca (full slide)

Answer 3

Atahualpa’s ransom
The Conquest of the Empire
Resistance in Vilcabamba
The Battle for Control: The Death of Almagro (1538) and Pizarro (1541)
The New Laws of the Indies and the limitation of the Encomienda (1542)
The Defeat of the Conquistadors: Civil War (1542-1548) and Royal Authority
Tupac Amaru, the last Inca, and the fall of Vilcabamba (1572)

Question 4

explain Atahualpa’s ransom

Answer 4

leader
demands ransom
spaniyars don’t keep their side of the promise and kill him

Question 5

explain The Conquest of the Empire

Answer 5

having the leader alive would be a liability

Question 6

explain The Battle for Control: The Death of Almagro (1538) and Pizarro (1541)

Answer 6

start of internal battle

Question 7

explain The New Laws of the Indies and the limitation of the Encomienda (1542)

Answer 7

crown decides to reform in indies and a rebellion occurs, conquistadors don’t want to surrender to the crown

crown eventually accepts this in exchange for letting conquests keep control, crown demands that political power remains in crowns hands… they can’t expanded becomes under control of king; birth of class of people that are powerful just no political

Question 8

explain Tupac Amaru, the last Inca, and the fall of Vilcabamba (1572)

Answer 8

they withstood spaniards, because spaniards fighting themselves but when that ends, this too fails

Question 9

The Other Conquests: The Amazon (full slide)

Answer 9

A ”Pristine” Eco-System: Modern Archeology and the Population of the Amazon Region
A Forest of Cinnamon and El Dorado: Early (Failed) Attempts at Exploring/Conquering the Amazon [ Orellana (1541) and Ursúa (1559)
The Forest Falls Silent: Later Attempts at Exploring/Conquering the Amazon (Pedro Texeira – Upriver- 1638]
Aguirre, the Wrath of God: The (Failed) Conquest of the Amazon in Contemporary Cinema

Question 10

explain the different conquering of the amazon between el dorado and pedro texeira

Answer 10

A Forest of Cinnamon and El Dorado: Early (Failed) Attempts at Exploring/Conquering the Amazon [ Orellana (1541) and Ursúa (1559)

The Forest Falls Silent: Later Attempts at Exploring/Conquering the Amazon (Pedro Texeira – Upriver- 1638]

pedro things they made up the challenges of all the people they saw because pedro didnt see anything

Question 11

The Other Conquests: Chile and the ”Auracanians” (Mapuche) (full slide)

Answer 11

The Conquest of Peru and the Pedro de Valdivia expedition
A partial success, and an unexpected resistance: the Araucanians (Mapuches) and the death of Pedro de Valdivia at the hands of Mapuche leader Lautaro (1553)
Confederation: A Successful Strategy of Mapuche Resistance until the 19th Century
New World heroes and Golden Age Literature: Alonso de Ercilla’ La Araucana
This heroic work in 37 cantos is divided into three parts, published in 1569, 1578, and 1589. It tells of the courageous insurrection of the Araucanians and also relates the history of Chile and of contemporary Spain.

Question 12

was The Conquest of Peru and the Pedro de Valdivia expedition
a success?

Answer 12

A partial success, and an unexpected resistance: the Araucanians (Mapuches) and the death of Pedro de Valdivia at the hands of Mapuche leader Lautaro (1553)

withstood spanish because of geography

Question 13

explain the Confederation

Answer 13

A Successful Strategy of Mapuche Resistance until the 19th Century

didn’t have a central power like lacy

Question 14

The Limits of Conquest: North America (full slide)

Answer 14

The Geographic and Demographic limits of Spanish Conquest/Colonization
The ”Intrusion” of other European Powers
From Florida to the Mississipi: Hernando de Soto and the Southeast (1539-1541)
The Mythical Cities of Cibola in the Southwest? Pedro de Coronado, Friar Marcos de Niza and the Myth of the Lost Cities (1540-1542)
A Land born in Chilvaric Myth: California and the fifth volume of a chivalric romance, Amadis de Gaula (Zaragoza, 1508)
Swamps, Storms, and Hurricanes: The Narvaez expedition and the travels of Cabeza de Vaca (1527-1536)