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What stimulated the wealth in Europe needed to develop banking and trade?

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Europe took over Asian spice trade

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Name 3 crucial inventions of the period?

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Gun Powder: revolutionlized warfare, powerful military advantage
Compass: advances in ship design, enable voyages, encouraged european dominance
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Why did Europeans look for new ways to reach Asia?

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Ottoman Turks took over Istanbul, the frointer between Europe and Asia. Christian Europe traders prohitbited.

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What allowed European mariners to explore the west coast of Africa?

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Improvments in shipbuilding, and navigation.

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Columbus conquest

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Approached multiple rulers to reach India from the west

  • convinced spanish monarchs Ferdinand, Isabella
  • set out with 3 ships
  • october reached bahamas ( thought china)
  • enslaved Native Americans
  • spain withdrew its support
  • Vespucci realized it was the new world
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Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

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Italian explorer

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What was the significance of the Treaty of Tordesillas?

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Columbus voyage led to conflict between spain and portugal. Alexander VI limited competition. The Treaty drew a line between the two. Spain recieved most america while portugal recieved brazil, africa, the east.

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What was a conquistador?

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A succcession of private spanish adventurers and soilders occiupeid island of caribeean.

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What were the main goals of spanish in conquering North America?

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To find metal and gold

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What riches did England and France discover in the new world?

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Fish and Furs

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Discuss the settlement of New France.

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France began exploring in 1520s, and Jacques Cartier explored the St Lawrence in 1534/35 claiming the northern part of the cointinent. Attempts to create colony failed for half a century. In 1603 there was establishment of Port Royal. Samuel de Champion established Quebec.

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When did Columbus land

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October 12th, 1492

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How did Europeans justify taking Native land?

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They haven’t been there that long

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How did people get from Siberia to Alaska?

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Land Bridge

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What was the Clovis theory?

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Spearheads guarennte humans have been here since mammthos.

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What was the coastal migration theory?

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easier to travel by water

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Before 1499 How could Europeans reach India?

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Travelling east through the red sea/ Arabia

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Animals from Europe to America

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cows,dogs,horses,goats,bee,chicken,pig,rates

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Animals from America to Europe

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guiena pig, turkey, llama, squirell, alpaca, duck

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Plants from Europe to America

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barley, coffee,sugar,peas,citrus fruits, grass

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Plants from America to Europe

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corn,potato,cacao,peanut,tabbaco,sweet potato

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Diseases from Europe to America

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chicken pocks, plague, small pox, typhus, whooping cough, influenza, mups, measles

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Why people migrated to america?

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Religous freedom, econmic opportunity, by force

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New England Colonies

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New Hampshere, Maine, Massechuettes, Connecticut, Rhode Island

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Middle Colonies

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New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

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Southern Colonies

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Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina

27
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What are the 3 most historical towns in USA

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Jamestown, Williamsberg, Yorktown connected by Parkway

28
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Who was Virgina named after?

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Queen Elizabeth 1

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What was the first permanet English settlement in America?

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Jamestown, named after King James

30
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Whose statues in Jamestwon?

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John Smith, Pocahauntes

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When did English first land?

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Jamestown 1607

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Hardships Jamestown faced.

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Fevers, mosiquitos, fires, starving, war

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What role did tobacco play?

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Ladder to wealth, created economy

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What was the role of Williamsberg?

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Becomes the capital, site of education that was center of community.

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Name the state capitals of New York, Flordia, Alaska, Hawaii, Pennsylvania

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NY: Albany
Al: Juneau
Ha: Honolulu
Fl: Tallahasse
Pn: Harrisberg
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Colonial Economy: Southern Colony

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manufacturing: iron
farm: grain,flour,livetsock,tobacco,rice,indigo
forestry: lumber, naval stores
collecting/gathering: fish furs

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Colonial Economy: Middle and New England

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manufcaturing: shipbuilding, iron, rum
forestry: lumber, masts
farm: grain, flour, livestock
collecting/gathering: fish, whales, furs

38
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List the importance of family

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communication, human interaction, support, skills, values

39
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Typical family home in colonial america

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cooking, eating, homecrafts, four walls and a roof, one or two rooms, roofs made of thatch

40
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How did colonists stay warm?

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fireplace, warming pads, pots filled with coal

41
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What did settlers eat and drink?

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corn, spoonbread, johnny cake, porridge, chesnuts, deer, goose, beer ale

42
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Meal time habits and rules

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time varied on schedule, large meals in late afternoon, snack in evening, silence, men wore hats, children would stand, share one plate, ate food with fingers

43
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What was average life expentecy?

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30-40 years

44
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What was the bussiest time for woman?

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Autumn, ever hand was needed to prepare for winter

45
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Bundling

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A way for people to spend alone time together by covering in the sheets and whispering

46
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How large was the average family?

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7-8 kids, children often did not survive

47
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Life of a child

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It was short, and less care free. Playfulness were viewed as sinful traits. Children would memorise religous books. Beatings were quite common. Chores.

48
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Education options

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Private school, grammar schools, dame schools

49
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Why was education important in massachusetts?

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Founders were puritans and belived learning was important to be able to read the bible

50
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Life of teahcers

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Sat behind raised desk, and spent nights drawing out lines for students to be copied.

51
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Frowned upon activties

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Fun and play, religous celebrations

52
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What were some past times of upper class?

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dancing, horse racing

53
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Past times of lower class?

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Less formal horse racing, cock fighting, hunting fishing

54
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Local fair activties.

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Buy and sell, contest, puppet shows, fortune tellers

55
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Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?

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A christian man ( priest) who wrote about the unlawful treatment of first nations, believed one should convert them to the word of god instead of brutality. He describe first nations as peaceful and calm people.

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