on a brink of a new world #2 Flashcards
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Spanish
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- attempting to reach Indies by sailing westward across the Atlantic
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Christopher Columbus
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- convinced that the circumference of the earth was less than contemporaries believed and that Asia was larger than people though 2. felt that Asia could be reached by sailing west instead of around Africa 3. persuaded Isabella of Spain to finance his expedition after being rejected by Portuguese 4. set sail on August 3, 1942 5. October 11, reached Bahamas, explored coastline of Cuba and northern shores of Hispaniola
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Columbus and Isabella, Ferdinanad
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1.assured them that he would eventually find gold and could covert natives to Christianity 3. sought in vain to find a route to Asian mainland
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john cabot
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- explored New England coastline
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Pedro Cabral
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- accidentally discovered continent of South America
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Amerigo Vespucci
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- Florentine 2. accompanied several voyages 3. wrote series of letters describing the geography of the New world 4. publication of these letters led to the use of the name America
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first two decades of 16th cenuty
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numerous overseas voyages that explored the eastern coasts of North and South America
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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- led expedition across isthmus of Panama and reaching pacific Ocean
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Ferdinand Magellan
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- passed Magellan tip of South America 2. sailed across Pacific ocean 3. reaching Philippines and was killed by natives 4. named associated with the first known circumnavigation of the earth
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New World
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- what Europeans refereed to newly discovered territories, even millions of people already lived there 2. Americans were new to Europeans 3. Europeans saw this as an opportunity for conquest and exploitation
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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- divided up the newly discovered world into separate Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence 2. most of south American fell with in Spanish sphere 3. made Spanish interested 4. route east around Cape of Good Hope was to be reserved for Portuguese 5. Atlantic was assigned to Spain
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conquistadors
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- Spanish conquerors 2. individuals motivated by glory, freed, and religious crusading zeal 2. financed and outfitted privately, not by the government 3. authorized by Castilian crown 4. benefited from rivalries among native peoples and decimation of the native people to European diseases
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Mesoamerica
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- Mexico and Central America 2. had number of flourishing civilization
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Maya
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- on Yucatan peninsula, they built one the most sophisticated civilizations in America 2. built splendid temples and pyramids 3. accomplished artists 4. developed sophisticated calender 5. were an agrarian people who cleared the dense rain forests, developed farming, and built a patchwork of city states 6. came to include much of Central America and southern Mexico 7. began to decline in 800 and collapsed a hundred years later
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Aztecs
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- began a long migration that brought them to the valley of Mexico 2. established their capital at Tenochtitlan, on an island in middle of lake Texcoco 3. built their city, constructing temples, other public buildings, houses and causeways of stone across lake Texcoco that connected other islands 4. built an aqueduct to bring fresh water 5. were outstanding warriors 6. set out to bring the entire area around the city under their control 7. became the leading city state in the lake region 8. consolidated their rule over much of Mexico 9. was a collection of semi independent territories governed by local lords 9. these rulers were confirmed in their authority by Aztec ruler in return for payment of tribute
