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Chapter 20 SS

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Where did Columbus depart?
Where did he think he land?
Called people what?
what call themselves?
what did he call the land he landed on?
Palos, Spain
East INdies
indians
taino
san salvador
How many voyages did monarchs fund after the 1st (columbus)?
3
the 2nd voyage was for wat (columbus)
colonizing
Cortez conquered who for wat country-what was the leaders name of the tribe?
aztec
spain
montezuma
the aztecs.....
* hated by all so many allies to the spanish
* took out people's hearts
* lost to the spanish
4 reasons y cortez won on the aztecs
1. returnin Toltec god
2. had interperter (Malinche)
3. armor/horses/weapons/allies
4. measles/mumps/chicken pox/typhus/etc=deseases
Pizarro tried to concer who?
ruler
what hapened
did they win?
incas
Atahualpa
kidnapped Atahualpa and demanded ranson of gold and silver ater it was recieved, Atahualpa was strangled
yes, they won
reconquista (reconquest)
technique used by Spainish when driving the muslims from spain---- lived among the muslims and imposed their culture on them
peninsulares
spanish men who were born in spain but had the top positions in the spanish colonies
mestizos
mixed spanish and native americans
encomienda
labor system natives farmed, rahced or mined for the spanish land lords. the landlords recieved the rights to the natives labor from the spanish authorities
brazil was controlled by spain?
did they have gold and silver
what did they make profit on
no
no
sugar
new france
frances colonial empire in north america, based in quebec
jamestown
english colony founded in virginia in 1607-1st permanent english settlement
pilgrims
England plymouth in Massachusetts
puritans
England massachusetts bay colony
new netherland
dutch holdings in n. america
french and indian war
7 years war: conflict between Britian and france over ohio valley land claims
metacom
king philip
native american leader that battled against European colonists in Massachusetts
Slaves taken from what word.....who were they who capured them
slavs
eastern europeans who were ensliaved by vikings
slavery
practice of owning human beings as property, condition of bein a slave
indentured servant
people who exchanged a period of work for payment of their passage to america
atlantic slave trade
between 1451-1870
app. 20 million africans were transported to the americas
triangular trade
on one route europeans transporte manufactured goods to africa for africansl. africans then transported across the atlantic and sold in the west indies
middle passage
voyage from africa to the west indies and the americas. middle leg of the transatlantic slave trade "tight packing" (spoon style)
sharks followed slaves
20% died during the voyage
4 reasons African slaves were useful
1. imune to European diseased
2. accustomed to the heat
3. less likly to run away fand blend in
4. skin color, easily reconized
columbian exchange
he global transfer of foods, plants and animals during the colonization of the americas and disease
capitalism
and economic system based on provate ownership and the investment of resources for profit
inflation
steady rise in the price of goods
cauded by and increase in the amount of money that peoplle have to spend on goods, and demand for goods increases.
not enough goods to meet the demand, so the prices of the goods increase
joint-stock company
business in which investers pool their wealth for a common purpose, buying shares of stock in a company, then sharing the profits
mercantilism
economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought (favorable balance of trade)
hods that a nations power comes from ins wealth
nations should be self efficient
favorable balance of trade
when a country sells more goods than it buys
Cabral ??
Portugal claimed brazil for portugal
Vespucci
Portugal realized new world wasn't asia
Magellan
Spain named Pacific and 1st to go around the whole world
Balboa
Spain 1st european to see Pacific
Ponce de Leon
Spain claimed Florida
Cortez
Spain Aztec
Pizarro
Spain Incas
Coronado
Spain 1st european to see the Grand Canon, Great Plains, and buffalo
Verrazzano
France explored new york harbor
Cartier
France "discovered" and named St. Lawrence River, Montreal
Champlain
France found Quebec with 32 colonies
Marquette and Joliet
France explored great lakes and upper Mississippi
Sieur de la Salle
France explored lower mississippi, named river valley Louisiana
English colonists
England founded jamestown in virginia
Henry Hudson
Dutch waterways: Hudson River/Bay/Straight
Dutch west india company
Dutch colonized Albany, Manhattan Areas
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