Midterm Review 2 Flashcards
What type of ship was the Santa Maria?
Carrack
What type of ship was the Niña?
Caravel
What type of ship was the Pinta?
Caravel
When did Columbus land?
October 12, 1492
Where did Columbus and his people first land?
San Salvador (Holy savior in spanish “praising god he landed”)
How did Cuba get it’s name?
Comes from colba (natives called it)
What was the ship that ran aground?
Santa Maria
What was the day?
Christmas
What was the name of the settlement they established after that?
Navidad
What happens to navidad?
Destroyed by natives
What is the realty of tordesias?
Spanish controls south and north And portuguese gets brazil and africa.
What was the flag ship of Lord Nelson?
HMS Victory
What was the largest class of galleons in the Spanish navy?
Manilla Galleons
What was the port city of Mexico?
Veracruz
4 viceroyalties?
New Spain, New Granada, Peru, Río de la Plata
Where was the first captain general position?
Santo Domingo
Who is the oyedor?
Judge
What was the institution that maintained the monopoly in the Spanish empire?
La Casa de Contración
What was the first European country to trade slaves?
Portugal
How many slaves per ship?
250-300
Ratio of men to women?
2:1
Percent of people dying?
10-15% died in middle passage
Percent of kids?
10-15% under 14
Who did cranial deformations?
Paracas
Moche weapons?
Blunt, so they wouldn’t kill prisoners and sacrifice them later.
Moche armor?
Super extravagant, more armor = higher rank
What city did balboa establish in Panama?
Darrien
What was the name of the city of gold?
El Dorado
What battles did Davila fight in before going to the NW?
Battle of Granada and North Africa
Balboas greatest accomplishment?
First to see the pacific
The golden kingdom in panama?
Biru
4 sources of conquest of Mexico?
Hernan Cortez letters to the king, Bernal Diaz History of the conquest (1568), Bernandino native accounts for florentine codex (writes mostly about montezuma), Fransico Lopez de Gomara (cortez secretary in algeria)
Who arrested and executed Balboa?
Pizzaro arrested him and Davilla had him executed
