unit 1: encounter + exploration Flashcards
age of discovery
Def: historic period of european global exploration (15th-18th century)
Sig: moved from mediveal to modern age, colonization
Leif Erikson
Def: Norse explorer
Sig: first to discover America 1000 A.D
silk road
Def: named after silk trade, connects E+SE Asia, persia, aravia and S.Europe.
Sig: main way of travel for goods, once closed forced italians to look for other routes
Hernan Cortez
Def: Spanish conquistador
Sig: fall of the aztec empire
Fransisco Pizzaro
Def: Spanish Conquistador
Sig: most well known for his expeditions to peru
Christopher Columbus
Def: Spanish/italian explorer
Sig: looking for new trade route to asia thought he found japan but actually was bahamas, enslaved indigenous ppl
Colombian exchange
Def: exchange of food, ideas, diseases, crops and population between old and new world (Colombia cuz Columbus)
Sig: helped expand europe and move us into the new world but also killed lots of ppl both indigenous and european
The Tainos
Def: indegenous population of haiti+DR
Sig: they had gold so CC took them prisoner and forced them to sho them the gold, beginning of the terrible acts to come
Pope alexnder + papal bull
Def: pope: 1492-1503
Sig: issued a papal bull (official order) that divided newly discovered land between spain and Portugal
*christianity exalted and other religions overthrown
carrack
Def: new ship
Sig: longer journeys, heavier equipment / weapons could be carried
Caravel
Def: new ship
sig: able to sail by winf better than any other ship at the time, easier to maneuver, canons and firepower
Encomienda
legal system used by spanish crown to obtain labour from native ppl
Repartimiento
requiring ppl (indegenous) to give certian days of labour 2 Spanish state
