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Question | Answer |
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What was the Columbian Exchange? | Exchange of goods, slavery, disease between Europe, America’s, and Africa. |
What was the Spanish Armada? | English Naval Victory over Spanish Spain loses Global dominance. |
What was the Renaissance? | Period of history in which there was a revival of interest in art and learning. |
What was the line of Demarcation ? | Pope draws a line to split land between Spain and Portugal Spain gets better end of deal and more land. |
What were the Crusades? | Series of wars fought to recapture the holy lands from Muslim Forces. |
New Amsterdam | Dutch Colony as result of Henry Hudson |
Who were the Conquistadors? | Men who conquered and claimed land for Spain Mean, cruel, ruthless, evil |
Who conquered the Inca and when? | Francisco Pizarro 1532, Peru |
Who was Hernando Cortes? | Responsible for the Conquest of Aztecs |
Who was Montezuma? | King of Aztecs |
Who was Ferdinand Magellan? | Explorer whose crew navigated the world |
Who was Francisco Pizarro? | He was responsible for the conquest of the Inca |
Who was Atahualpa? | Thought Pizarro was God-like Was killed and Pizzarro took over |
Who was Amerigo Vespucci ? | Italian explorer who realized Americas was not part of Asia Realized it was North and South America ( different continents, not Asia) |
Why were Europeans exploring sea routes? What were they looking for? | The were looking for Gold, God, and Glory |
gold | This was the currency that all countries used |
god | They wanted to convert natives to Christianity/missionaries |
glory | were they looking for? Pride in ones country |
Who were the Vikings? | Explorers from Scandinavia |
Why is it ignored that the Vikings made it to America prior to Christopher Columbus? | Nothing came of the Vikings coming to America No exploration happened, so it was not important. |
who payed from columbus's voyage | King and Queen of Spain |
How can a historian use journals (like Chris Columbus) to learn about past? What did we learn from his journal? | Shows us what was happening then What Columbus writes tells us things→ what happened, his feelings, native Americans, their relationships, how he felt about them and how they felt about him |
The French and English Explorers believed in the Northwest Passage. What was this? | Jacques Cartier and Henry Hudson believed there was a water passage through the America’s that would take them to Asia |
Where did England and France explore? Why? | As a result of Henry Hudson’s voyages, the Dutch established a colony in present day New York - The French established colonies in present day Canada |
Why was there trouble between England and Spain? | They were both trying to colonize the America’s |
What were the reasons for the easy conquest of Native Americans? | Guns, Germs, and Steel They had Iron, a geographic advantage, better fighting techniques, and disease |
Where did they explore and conquer? | Having conquered major Native American empires in Central and South America, the Spaniards began to explore other parts of North and South America |
What was their relationship with the Native American’s? | Spain made alliances with Native Americans who were enemies of Aztec’s and Inca’s |
What were Missionaries? | People who were sent to convert people to Christianity |