Pre-Columbian Cultures Flashcards
Pre-Columbian Natives
Importance of Maize
Pre-columbian Natives
Eastern Woodland Culture
Pre-columbian natives
Great Plain’s culture
Pre-columbian natives
Great Basin Culture
Pre-columbian natives
Pueblo Culture
Pre-columbian natives
Pacific northwest culture
Spanish Conquest
Conquest of the Aztecs
Catholic soldiers with the blessing of the crown was to gather land. Cortez comes in from 1519-21 into the Aztecs and conquers them, disease rampaging a lot of their community. Wasn’t their goal. They were motivated by Gold, god, and glory, wanting to spread their religion.
Spanish Conquest
Conquest of Incas
The Inca’s were split into four different ruling families, however, like a lot of dynasties, had trouble with next in line for the throne. These disputes weakened the incan empire, making way for Pizarro’s conquest. Pizarro saw this land as a place for growth and wealth, as well as the spread of catholocism
Spanish Conquest
Use of natives as slaves in caribbean
Enslaved about 250,000 to 650,000 native people in the caribbean from 1492 until the end of the 16th century
New Spain
Economy of new spain
Using natives as cheap labor on encomienda land in order to make a profit off of farming and gold mining.
New Spain
Encomienda system
Conquistadores are given land, whoever lives on it become your servants, working as cheap labor as a way to get them to convert. Tax the laborers with a portion of what they produce. Pre-cursor to the plantation
New Spain
Missions communities
New Spain
Spanish class system
Marrying into the natives since a lot of them are single men. They are called Mestizo’s a mix of native and Spanish. Racial Hierarchy
New Spain
Syncretic religious
Spanish pull back and allow the natives to celebrate their culture, as long as they respect the crown
New Spain
Native resistance
Rebellion happens, such as Pope’s rebelliong (Pueblo revolt) 1680, there weren’t many Spanish, mostly native and they were tired of the way they were treated, They killed spanish priests and got rid of their churches, and for a decade, the spanish pulled back. Black legend- the idea that the only goal of the spanish was to come and destroy them.
New spain
African slave trade
New Spain
Conflict with england
Exploration
Motives for european exploration
Exploration
Methods for exploration/Technology
Portuguese claim the route around the tip of Africa under De Gama using meritime tech, like a sextant, a compass, or caravels ships that allowed faster travel, allowed portuguese to find an alternate route to the east.
Exploration
Financial systems
Places such as England used Joint Stock companies to pay for their trips as a way to create revenue and send more resources/colonists to sail across the atlantic
Columbian exchange
Demographic impact on natives
They steeply declined as disease rampaged a lot of native tribes when encountering the spanish
Columbian exchange
Demographic impact on europe
Population increases because of access to new foods such as potatoes, maize, ect, from the New World
Columbian exchange
Economic impact on europe
Exchange of ideas and cultures. They’ve now gained the ability to trade with other european countries as well as the middle east, finally having something of value to offer the rest of the world.
