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Chapter 2 History

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Marco Polo
Went to China, wrote about it which inspired other explores like Christopher Columba
Crusades
Series of Holy Wars in the Middle East
Renaissance
Reference to the rebirth of arts, literature and science in Europe in the 1400's to the 1500's
Advances in Technology
Helped map makers and explores (ex. Astrolabe, compass, and caravel)
Sails and rudders
Helped sailors to sail easier and faster
Kingdoms in Africa
Ghana, Mali, Songhai Empire
Boats the sailed with Christopher Columbus
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
Where did Christopher Columbus land?
Present day Bahamas
What land did Christopher Columbus claim for Spain?
Hispaniola and South America
What were two bad things that Christopher Columbus did?
- Enslaved the natives to get gold for Spain
- Brought diseases to the New World
Prince Henry the Navigator started?
School for sailors
The Portuguese got rich from trading with?
West Africa
Bartolomeu Dias did what?
Went around the Southern tip of Africa called the Cape of Good Hope (named by King John) and went back to Portugal
Where and when did Vasco da Gama sail?
July 1497, around the Cape of Good Hope and then to India
Who was Leif Ericsson and what did he do?
Viking sailor who was in Vinland and northeast Canada, considered the first to sail to the New World
Line of Demarcation
Imaginary line set by the Pope from the North to South Pole through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean giving land to the East to Portugal and to the West Spain
Treaty of Tordesillas
Moved the line about 800 miles west to give more of the new fouls land to the Portuguese
Ferdinand Magellan
1st to circumnavigate the world but died during the journey, Strait of Magellan was named after him
Straight of Magellan
Tip of South America
Conquistadors
Explores and conquerors from Spain claiming and exploring land for Spain
Why the Spanish Explored
Gold, God, Glory
Hernan Cortes
Conquered the Aztec Empire
Francisco Pizarro
Conquered the Incan Empire
Spanish Gains and Native Losses
-Land
-Ability to convert Non-Christians
-Foods
-Diseases
-Culture Disrupted
-Slavery
Pounce de Leon
First European to reach Florida
Hernando de Soto
Searched for the 7 Cities of Gold in southwestern Us - didn't find anything
Pueblos
Towns that become centers of trade
Missions
For converting natives, religious centers
Presidio
Military base - type of fort built near a mission
Peninsulares
Traced ancestry directly back to Spain - highest status
Encomienda System
Ability to rule others especially natives
Plantation
Large farms that grow just one kind of crop
Reformation
Reform the Roman Catholic Church
Martin Luther
German priest, 95 Thesis, wanted to reform the RCC
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588, defeated by the English, cleared the way for the other countries in the New World
Amerigo Vespucci
Thought he found a new world and was a German mapmaker
Northwest Passage
A water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through northern Canada and along the northern coast of Alaska
Henry Hudson
Was looking for the Northwest passage and discovered what is know the Hudson Bay and Hudson River
French Quebec
- Traders and Trappers
- Got along with the Natives
- Small settlements
The Dutch
Found New Amsterdam in present day New York
Peter Minuit
Bought Manhattan Island from the Natives for $24 for the Dutch
Columbian Exchange
Exchange of plants and animals From the Americans to Europe
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