When Worlds Collide Flashcards
Why did the calm seas in the tropic be named “Horse Latitudes”?
Because it had a fierce heat that could kill the horses in their dark, stuffy quarters.
Where did the tomato be first discovered?
In the highlands of the Andes Mountains.
Which disease did Europeans bring from their homeland and spread to the American Natives causing a mass reduction of their populations?
Smallpox
What’s the estimated death toll of colonization time?
Anywhere from 50 to 90 Million People.
What did Columbus mean to say when he commented: the trees in America “were as different from ours as day from night”?
He referred to the fact that the native civilizations of America looked incredibly late in terms of development as a society in comparison to the rest of the world.
How did European diseases contribute as one of the main factors of the successful dominance of the American Territory?
Since they were completely new to the natives who didn’t have any immunity against them, unlike the Europeans, they’ve contributed for a great part of the victims of that time.
What did the conquistators do to the Indian Allies whom they suspected of deceiving them?
They took hostages, set the dogs on their captives, or simply killed them.
Who were the 3 surviving Spainards of the expedition in the Gulf of Mexico?
Panfilo de Narvaez, Castillo de Dorantes and Estevanico/Little Steve.
How did the survivors of the expedition in the Gulf of Mexico were called by Indians once they began healing ill natives?
“Children of the Sun”.
What does the affirmative Cortes was the first “to plant and harvest wheat in this land”?
That he was the first man to introduce the European crops in the American soils.
