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Period 1 (1492-1607) Flashcards

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What is the historical context for the diverse Native American cultures in the 1490’s?

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The different geography and climate across the Americas

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What is the historical context for European exploration in the Americas from 1490-early 1600s?

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  • Finding trade routes to Asia
  • Gold/silver mines
  • Fur trading
  • Plantations
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What is the historical context for the interactions between Native Americans and Europeans in the period 1490-1607?

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Europeans depended on Natives and enslaved Africans for labor

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Maya

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Located: Yucatan Peninsula
Food supply: Maize

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Aztecs

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Location: Tenochtitlan (the capital)
Food supply: Maize
- Size of a large European city
- POWERFUL EMPIRE!!!

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Incas

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Location: Modern day Peru
Food Supply: Potatoes
- Vast empire

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What were some similarities between the Maya, Aztecs and Incas?

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  • Observed different calendars
  • Extensive trade
  • Highly organized societies
  • Stable food supplies
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What 3 motives prompted European exploration?

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  • Glory (fame and authority)
  • God (religion)
  • Gold (economy)
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Protestant Reformation

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A religious movement to break up the Catholic church which lead to religious conflict
- Also motivated to spread religion

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Slave Trade

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The Porteguese began trading for slaves in western Africa when sailing to the new world

Why? ~ Slaves were used as workers in western Africa for sugar plantations (very profitable)

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Line of Demarcation

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There were disagreements between Spain and Porteguese on what part of the Americas they will claim SO the Pope “drew” a vertical north to south line to settle that

Spain-> left side
Portugal-> right side

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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In 1494, the Spanish/Porteguese signed an agreement to shift the Line of Demarcation to the west, this was called the Treaty of Tordesillas

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What technology was created in the Renaissance?

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Explosives, compass and printing press

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Compass

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  • Invented by Arab merchants / Chinese
  • Motivated more exploration and better navigation
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Printing Press

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Aided the spread of knowledge in Europe / world

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Who was Chrsitopher Columbus and what did he do?

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  • Sailed west from Spain (Canary Islands to the Bahamas) looking for a sea trade route to Asia but he instead discovered the Americas
  • Following voyages had little success (little gold, spices and no path to Asia)
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Columbian Exchange

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The trade of various goods, livestock and diseases from Europe to the Americas and vice versa

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Nation-States

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Various European nations combined into bigger “countries” in order to find more valuable resources to trade to make themselves more notable to the Chruch

(Ex: Castile and Aragon –> Spain)

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What did King Ferninand and Queen Isabella do after the Catholic Victory in Europe?

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Ferninand and Isabella married to unite the Spanish empire which lead to them funding Columbus’ first voyage (at the time they didn’t know this would also lead to the discovery of the Americas)

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Conquistadores

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They were Spanish adventurers explorers and conquerors

21
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Hernan Cortes

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A conquistador who took over the Aztecs in Mexico

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Fransisco Pizarro

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A conquistador who took over the Incas in Peru

  • He loaded ships with gold/silver back to Spain (Spain became the richest and most powerful empire)
  • This encouraged other countries to go to the Americas
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Encomienda System

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Spain’s King granted natives who lived alone to the Spaniards

  • He forced them to farm/work in mines and what they cultivated was given to the Spanish
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Asiento System

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The Spanish required colonists to pay a tax to Spanish King on each enslaved person

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Slavery

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The Spanish enslaved Africans for there own use and profit

  • Porteguese already used them on plantations (slave trade)
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Spanish Caste System

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A system in which divided races/ethnicities in different “classes”

Top of triangle ~ Peninsulares (Spaniards born in Spain)
2nd ~ Creoles (Born in New Spain of Spanish parents)
3rd ~ Mestizos (Born of Spanish and Native American Indian parents)
4th ~ Native American Indians
Bottom ~ Enslaved Persons (Pure Native American / Black heritage)

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Iroquois Confederacy

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Many of the Native American tribes banned together to create the Iriquois Confederacy as protection against European migration

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Hokokam, Anasazi, Pueblos

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Tribe in southwest settlement

Housing: Caves, cliffs, multistoried buildings
Food sources: Maize
Other: Compex societies and faced a drought when Europeans arrived

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Adena-Hopewell

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Tribe in Northeast settlement

Housing: Longhouses
Food source: Farming (roasted crops) and hunting
Other: One of the main settlements that started the Irquois Confederacy

30
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Roanoke Island

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Known as the “lost colony”

It is thought that colonists abandoned Roanoke traveling South to an island known as the Corotoan Island

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New Laws of 1542

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Ended slavery (ecomendia system) but still there was no equality

32
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Juan Sepulveda

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When debate rose in Spain for if the poor treatment of Native Americans was justified, Juan had a more traditional outlook (thought natives were LESS than human)

33
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Bartolome de Las Casas

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When debate rose in Spain for if the poor treatment of Native Americans was justified, Bartolome advocated for better treatment of Natives

34
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How was society of North America affected by the expansion of the Spanish Empire?

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The society was altered in a way that would benefit the Spaniards only

  • Slavery
  • Brutality
  • Change of culture
35
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How the economy of the North affected by the expansion of the Spanish Empire?

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The North’s economy is hurt even though there is alot if exports because there is little to no imports

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