spain reaches new world 1490-1512 Flashcards
when was col first voyage to new world?
1492
when was land first spotted in col’s first voyage?
oct 11: land-based birds spotted, land spotted later that night
when did col and pinzons claim land for spain?
1492 oct 12, col and pizons and some crew members rowed ashore and claimed land for spain
when did santa maria wreck on a reef?
dec 24 1493
challenges colombus faced while voyage:
-possibility of mutiny: he made two logs, one fake dist one real; so as to relax the uneasy crew members
-possibility of portugese attacking col to obstruct atlantic crossing; he changed his route to avoid
-martin pinzon wanted to turn south as he believed it would take them to japan
what happens in 21 nov - 24 dec 1492?
-martin pinzon rebels and sails away in pinta looking for gold
-col’s flagship santa maria wrecked on a coral reef. col decides to use the timbers to build settlement of La Navidad
consequences of catholic missionaries in the new world:
-religion
-education
-treatment of natives
-hierarchies
-spread chris to the natives; destroyed the traditions and beliefs held before the spanish arrived
-taught the natives how to read and write in spanish, spread the use of spanish as common language expanding spanish control
-some missionaries, such as Las Casas, horrified by Spanish abuse of natives; these missionaries campaigned to improve treatment of natives
-M’s used existing native hierarchies to spread chris, converting powerful nobles first, meaning rest of population more easily converted
in 1492, there were …… natives in Haiti (Hispaniola)
in 1507, there were ……..
-500,000
-60,000
88% decrease
when does Colombus get arrested and sent back to Spain
1500
1502 - Ovando becomes Governor
When was the treaty of Tordesillas
1494
When was Santo Domingo found
1498
…. kg of Gold found in 1501
300KG
One of Colombus’s ships left with 550 slaves…
200 died. Isabella shocked
Which diseases did the Europeans bring
Smallpox, measles, influenza
