Unit 1- Columbus Essay

Question 0

What was Columbus promised if his 1st journey was successful?

Answer 0

10% of the profits, governorship over new lands, Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Question 1

October 1492

Answer 1

Columbus landed in Arawak tribes (west indies)

Question 2

What were the supplies Columbus was given on his second journey?

Answer 2

17 ships 1200 men

Question 3

How many Indians were lost from 1498-1508?

Answer 3

Three million (from war, slavery, mines)

Question 4

What did Samuel Eliot Morrison say about Columbus?

Answer 4

Yes, he did commit mass murder, but covers under mass of other information to lead the reader to think it’s okay for Columbus to do so in order to progress

Question 5

Winter of 1610 in Jamestown

Answer 5

English were starvin and joined with Powhatan

Question 6

Indian population in 1515

Answer 6

50,000

Question 7

Indian population in 1550

Answer 7

500

Question 8

Indian population in 1660

Answer 8

No Arawaks

Question 9

What did Bartolame de las Casas say upon arriving in Hispaniola in 1508?

Answer 9

Did not approve of “Spanish cruelty”

Question 10

What was happening in Europe c.1500?

Answer 10

Arms-races

Question 11

When was the Caribbean conquered?

Answer 11

1492-1519

Question 12

When was the conquest of Mexico?

Answer 12

1519-1530 by Hernando Cortes

Question 13

When was the conquering of Peru?

Answer 13

1532-1540

Question 14

Repartamiento

Answer 14

In leu of paying in taxes, pay in labor

Question 15

Encomienda

Answer 15

Commended to work; breaking up land to lords worked by laborers; create a form of slavery to get wealth out of the land

Question 16

Council of the Indies

Answer 16

Council appointed by king of nobility and clergy who wrote rules for America

Question 17

Viceroyalties

Answer 17

Name for territories (Cuba, Mexico, Peru) head is king of that