Flashcards for Chapter 2- Explorers
TermCartographers
/ Definition
Mapmakers
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Astrolabe
/ Definition
Tool developed by Arabs to help figure out latitude @ sea
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Encomienda System
/ Definition
Conquistadors were granted land and rights to demand labor and tributes from Native Americans
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Mercantilism
/ Definition
Theory that a wealthy country is a powerful country, therefore the goal is to attain as much wealth as possible
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Conquistadors
/ Definition
Spanish conquerors
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Plantations
/ Definition
Large estates that made a large work force necessary
Renaissance
/ Period at the end of the middle ages in Europe where people sought a rebirth of classical Greek and Roman thinkingThis brought about a desire to educate people, use science, and explore their world like never before
Shipping Technology Advances
/ Causes- Three-masted caravel, better rudder systems, triangular sails, larger ships that could sail in shallower water and carry more.Result: People could travel in the open ocean and carry more goods to more distant places.
Protestant Reformation / 1517
Martin Luther
Germany
Protested the Catholic church by posting his 95 Theses (complaints) on the church door. This started a wave of protests against the church including Calvinism and Henry VIII of England breaking away from the church. Began religious rivalries.
Columbian Exchange / Exchange of goods, people, plants, disease, and ideas that occurred after 1492 when Columbus made first contact.
Disease killed over half the Native population in the Americas; new foods introduced to Europe allowed population there to boom.
Northwest Passage / What many explorers from Europe (France, Dutch, England) were looking for when they explored North America. They were trying to find a water passage to Asia but never found it.
Portugal / Nation that took the lead with ocean exploration in the 1400s.
Henry the Navigator- started schools and did research
Bartholomeu Dias- 1st to Cape of Good Hope-1487
Vasco da Gama- First to India around Africa-1497
Result: Portugal establishes trading posts, trades gold and slaves, makes money, motivates Spain.
Spain / Wants a piece of the action- Portugal is getting rich.
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand fund a trip by Christopher Columbus in 1492 to sail west to Asia instead of east.
Discovers America.
Attack Aztec in 1519 and Inca in 1532.
Become rich from American gold and silver, destroy the Aztec and Inca empires completely.
Treaty of Tordesillas / Agreement made through the pope.
Creates an imaginary line going through the Americas.
Spain gets everything west of the line, Portugal gets everything east of the line (Brazil, Africa, etc.)
Magellan / First crew to circumnavigate the world (go around it completely) in 1520.
He died on the way.
Aztec / Empire in what is today Mexico- 1300s to 1520.
Montezuma was emperor when Spanish invaded.
Cortes led the Spanish to victory.
Cortes became governor of New Spain
Tenochtitlan was the capital.
Inca / Contact from Spanish 1532.
Pizarro gave Inca disease then left to get funding.
He returned to an empire that was nearly destroyed in civil war and disease.
Led by Atahualpa at time of conquest.
Pizarro conquers them and becomes governor of Peru.
Spanish Class System / Governor.
Peninsulares- born in Spain- upper class
Criollos- born in Americas to Spanish parents
Mestizos- mixed background- Spanish/Native
Native People- almost no rights.
Slaves- imported from Africa- no rights.
3 Reasons why Spain won in the Americas / Weapons
Disease
Luck
Help from other tribes
French settlements / Posted in Canada
Got along well with native groups
Small presence in area
Catholic missionaries tried to convert natives
Dutch settlements / Founded New Netherland in what is now New York
Had a major naval fleet
Major traders out of Hudson River and New York
Small presence in area- tolerant of others.
Religious Rivalries / Catholics vs. Protestants
Catholics- Portugal, Spain, France
Protestants- English, Dutch
Don’t all get along, but both are Christian
Christopher Columbus / Sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Landed at San Salvador
Sailed for Spain, but from Italy.
Sailed on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
Took 4 trips across altogether
Established a base on Hispaniola and enslaved the locals
How Europe reached Asia and what they wanted / Originally over the Silk Road through Asia, then by boat through Venice, Italy.
Portugal went around Africa to get there.
Spain tried to go west but hit America.
France, The Netherland (Dutch), and England tried to find a Northwest Passage but couldn’t.
Everybody got rich anyway, invented the steam engine, conquered the world, and are now super duper in debt.
North American trade activity
/ Natives want trade goods, metal cooking items and tools, clothes, axes, and weapons.Europeans want resources: timber, fish beaver pelts (furs), and gold. Not any gold north of Mexico, though.