Colonization Flashcards
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- What did Columbus call surprised inhabitants?
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Indians
Los indios - colonies
- lands that are controlled by an entire nation
- ....conquered the ... in ...
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Hernando Cortes
Aztecs
1521 - reasons why Cortes conquered Aztecs
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superior weaponry
help of native groups
Aztecs could not stop disease - mestizo nationalities
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Spanish
Native America - name of Spanish explorer who claimed modern-day Florida for Spain
- Juan Ponce de Leon
- French explorer claimed the entire river valley of the ...... River for France
- Sieur de la Salle
- first settlement in North America and when
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1607
Jamestown - privateer
- privately owned armed ships
- conflict in 1754
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French and Indian War
Seven Year's War - helped the British army defeat the French in... in North America
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1763
British colonists - names of disease that cause most deaths to Native Americans
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measles
smallpox - Why did European owners have to use Africans as their source of labor instead of Native Americans?
- Native Americans died from disease and warfare
- reasons why Europeans saw advantages in using Africans as their labor force
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immunity to European diseases
experienced farmers
little knowledge of land - where did most of the AFrican slaves imported by the British end up?
- West Indies
- nickname of middle leg
- middle passage
- percent increase in sharks in Atlantic
- 300%
- things Africans brought with them which helped economically to the development of the Americas
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muscle
expertise in agriculture - Italian trader who found his way to .......'s court in ....
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Kublai Khan
1275
Marco Polo - Marco Polo's book
- Marco Polo's Travels
- What did Marco Polo's book do?
- spurred exploration
- things that spurred age of European exploration
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Caravel for better sailing
desire to grow rich
desire to spread Christianity - Europeans battled in ...against the ...for control of Holy Land
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1100
Muslims - types of people gathered at Price Henry's navigation school to perfect their trad
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map maker's
instrument makers
shipbuilders
scientists
sea captains - motives drove Europeans to solve problems of sailing in 1400's
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God
Gold
Glory - nickname of Prince Henry
- Henry the Navigator
- things portuguese traded with the Africans for
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gold
ivory
slaves - convinced Spain to finance bold plan of finding route to Asian by sailing west
- Christopher Columbus
- sailory used .... to help determine their location on the sea, which was developed by the...
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astrolabe
Muslims - invented magnetic compass
- chinese
- suggested imaginary dividing line
- Pope Alexander VI
- Line of Demarcation
- imaginary dividing line from north to south across Atlantic
- what did the Portuguese gain by seizing the Strait of Malacca?
- control of Moluccas
- claimed the Philipping Islands in...
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1521
Spain - led the Spanish expedition that arrived in Phillipines
- Ferdinand Magellan
- who had the largest fleet of ships in the world in 1600?
- Dutch
- Boers
- Dutch settlers in S.Africa
- apartheid
- legal system of severe discrimination