Forces leading to colonization

Question 1

Reasons for European Exploration

Answer 1

Crusades- Christians were wanting to gain holy land. Experienced trade and culture, something they didn’t have in western, Christian Europe

Question 2

Portuguese
Technology

Answer 2

Meritime technology plays a really important role in pushing the Portuguese forward, with compass, sextant, and caravel sails that allows faster travel. Diaz gets the route around Africa to India

Question 3

Spanish
Reconquista

Answer 3

Spanish don’t want the Moores, so they want to reconquer the Moores land, taking over their land in 1492. Spain is united under Catholic king and queen. Now they want to spread Christianity

Question 4

Spanish
Columbus

Answer 4

Spain sponsors Columbus into the indies.The

Question 5

The Columbian Exchange

Answer 5

Exchange of disease, opens the door for international trade and health. Ideas and cultures, foods, diseases, spread to the West.

Question 6

Spanish Conquest and Colonization
Conquistadores and Cortes 1512-21

Answer 6

Gold, God, and Glory. Plan to gather land in the west. Conquers the Aztec Empire, many die from disease.

Question 7

Spanish Conquest and Colonization
Encomienda System

Answer 7

Conquistadores are given land (haciendas) and whoever lives on the land becomes your servants. Have them work the land, and convert them to God. Tax them with what they produce. Mestizo’s are created from intermarrying from European and natives.

Question 8

Spanish Conquest and Colonization
Rebellion 1680

Answer 8

Pope’s Rebellion/Pueblo Revolt 1680 pushes the Spanish out. Not many Spanish in this area, and Pope fights back, killing priests, getting rid of churches. Left alone for a decade. Black legend- people believe that all Spain is doing is being savages. they re-insert themselves back into New Spain, and let the natives have their culture as long as they pay lip service

Question 9

French Colonization
Colonization Limited

Answer 9

French Protestants left France because of Catholic rule. People want to use the land for money, and trade off the natives. Coureurs de Bois were fur traders. Natives traded pelts for European goods. Depletion of beaver numbers as intertribal warfare happens as there are limited resources to trade.

Question 10

English Colonization
Delayed

Answer 10

1530’s, religious strife. Henry VIII wants to divorce his wife, so he makes his own religion, the Anglican church/Opiscopal church. Ireland doesn’t want to be subdued by Ireland. Doesn’t have a navy, only merchant fleet.

Question 11

English Colonization
Early/Failed attempts

Answer 11

Roanoke 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh helps settle a colony on the coast of the Carolinas. They weren’t able to get the resources they needed, and died. Hard to have a thriving colony wihtout support