Questions

Question 1

What happened after Cortes retreating tenochtitlan

Answer 1

Cortes laid siège to tenochtitlan

Question 2

What does siege mean

Answer 2

When the military surrounds a certain area and don’t let food or water in certain areas so they can colonize the city

Question 3

Why did Cortes return to tenochtitlan

Answer 3

For the gold

Question 4

Hat were the two reasons Cortes captured tenochtitlan

Answer 4

• better firearms

- only 3 causeways to get into the city

Question 5

What did Cortes use slaves for

Answer 5

To mine gold silver and later cole

Question 6

Who did Cortes receive supplie from

Answer 6

His allies Vera Cruz

Question 7

What did Cortes’s movement symbolize

Answer 7

The downfall of first nations people and their ways of living the hand of the European colonists

Question 8

What consistent theme was established

Answer 8

Structures within a colony

Question 9

What was established

Answer 9

• economic instrument
• mercantilism
• trade
• cultural exchange

Question 10

What is a colony

Answer 10

A place that could be conquered by another

Question 11

After the widespread of colonialism what happened

Answer 11

The world economy was centred around the powers of Western Europe

Question 12

Explain a company

Answer 12

In charge of claiming Land, hiring people and paying them to extract resources

Question 13

Explain a bank

Answer 13

The countries needed money to fund there exploration trips so the banks were in charge of loaning money and the explorers paid the banks back. It was in the hope that they would make profit

Question 14

Name the four colonizing countries

Answer 14

France
Spain
Portugal
Great Britain

Question 15

What was mercantilism for

Answer 15

Strengthening colonizing countries

Question 16

What is capatalism

Answer 16

The more a county produces stuff the more people buy and make money and strengthens the economy

Question 17

Explain mercantilism in a few short words

Answer 17

Process of creating wealth for Europe

Question 18

What is a mother country

Answer 18

European country that sponcer’s its colonies and is always the one to make the profit because the colony does not profit as much

Question 19

What is the point of mercantilism?

Answer 19

Is to economically benefit the mother country and strengthen their economy so that these countries become more powerful on the world stage

Question 20

Explain the five steps of mercantilism (also draw a chart)

Answer 20

1. The colony send the raw material to its mother country because it’s too expensive to process it because there no factories in a colony so they do it in the mother country
2. In the mother country the raw materials are processed and once there processed they get sent to the European markets
3. On the European markets the items are sold and all the profit goes back to the mother country
4. The mother country then uses some of the money to buy the supplies needed to make the items
5. They are then send to the colony to repeat the cycle

Question 21

What does colonization mean?

Answer 21

When a European country takes over another territory (mostly Europe + South America)
For the purpose of power and profits
The process of colonization is supported by slavery and money given by the mother country

Question 22

Who was condemned to slavery

Answer 22

The aboriginals

Question 23

Why did many of the aboriginals die

Answer 23

Because when they were brought to European country they did not have the antibody that Europeans had to not get a disease. The disease was like the chicken picks

Question 24

What did they do to fill the spaces of all the people that had died?

Answer 24

They went to Africa and room many African slaves and forced them to work but also many of them died from terrible working conditions and the disease

Question 25

Explain and compare triangular trade

Answer 25

Virtually he dsme as mercantilism but slaves are incorporated

Question 26

Explain the steps of triangular trade

Answer 26

1. Raw materials are sent to the mother country to be processed
2. Europe sends the goods to Africa and instead of paying for the items they trade them for slaves
3. Those slaves are send to the mother country then to the colony’s
4. the cycle repeats

Question 27

Explain cultural exchange

Answer 27

When the people sent to each others countries they discovered ew foods, clothes and assimilated in a way by incorporating there ways. (Explain hairy pig story)

Question 28

What happened at the end of exploration

Answer 28

The world had changed radically

Question 29

Why were entire populations decimated

Answer 29

There were so many slaves that died because of the terrible working conditions and to disease so there was a major decrease in the populations