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“European Influence In Asia and the Americas”
Chapter 2, “New Global Connections,”Section Two – “Europeans Gain Footholds in Asia” and
Section Three – “European Conquests in the Americas”
Directions
Read Chapter Two, “New Global Connections,” SectionsTwo and Three, found on pages 114 to 129 and answer the questions below.This is due Friday, 10/6/17. 64 Points
Section Two – Europe Gains Footholds in Asia
(1) Portugal Builds an Empire: For most of the 1500’s, ______controlled the spice trade between Europe and Asia. The Portuguese were very intolerant to other religions. In Goa, they attacked ______, destroyed ______
______, and introduced the Inquisition. Portuguese ships even sank ______
on their way to Mecca. (Four Points)
(2) Dutch Sea Power: Dutch warships and trading vessels soon made the Dutch ______. They used their sea power to set up colonies and ______, including a strategic settlement at Cape Town. Furthermore, in 1602, a group of wealthy Dutch merchants formed the ______
______, which had full sovereign powers to build armies, wage ______, negotiate ______, and govern ______, as it came to dominate the region. (Six Points)
(3) Spain: Spain took over the islands of the ______. (One Point)
(4) Mughal India: Mughal India was a thriving trade center, as some of the trade goods included ______
______. The Mughal Empire in Indian fell into decline because later rulers end religious ______, leading to conflicts between the religions of ______. Rulers then increased ______, which sparked peasant ______
______. (Five Points)
** Eventually, the country of ______will come to dominate India until 1947, until a guy named Gandhi comes upon the world stage. (One Point)
(5) China: Europe was interested in trading with China, but China had no interest in Europe, as a Ming document proclaimed, ___
______. The Chinese government only allows European countries to trade at the city of ______under the supervision of imperial officials. From people like Matteo Ricci and other Jesuits, the Chinese were very interested in European technologies, including mapmaking, as well as European discoveries in science, such as astronomy and mathematics, but priests had little success ______. (Three Points)
The Manchus invaded China pushing through the ______. The Manchus establish the ______Dynasty. Under the rule of Qing Kangxi and Qianlong, China expanded its borders to rule the largest ______
______. Crops from the Americas, such as ______made it to China, and goods such as ______industries expanded. (Five Points)
(6) Korea: The result of Japanese attacks on Korea were disastrous, as ______were burned to the ground, as ______became widespread. Korea decided to adopt a policy of ______, excluding foreigners except the Chinese and a few Japanese. (Three Points)
(7) Japan: The daimyo, who were ______quickly adopted Western firearms, which may have helped the ______shoguns centralize power and impose order. The Japanese were much more eager to adopt the religion of ______, as a growing number of Japanese adopted the new faith. Eventually, the Tokugawa shoguns became hostile towards foreign missionaries and Japanese who had converted to Christianity, as they feared the 300,000 Japanese Christians owed their allegiance to ______. The Tokugawas brutally persecuted ______
______. (Five Points)
Section Three – European Conquests in the Americas
(8) First Encounters: Taino peoples were first friendly towards Columbus, but friendly relations soon evaporated because _____
______
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Spanish ______soon arrived to the Americas and repeated Columbus’s encounter. Throughout their Spanish Empire, the conquistadors seized the Native Americans’ gold and then ______
______. (Guns, Horses, and Disease) The Spanish had many technological advantages to the Native Americans, which allowed them to conquer millions of Native Americans with only a few hundreds of conquerors, due to ______
______. Maybe the most important weapon to conquer the Native Americans was ______, which helped the conquistadors take control of the Native Americans. (Five Points)
(9) Cortez Conquers the Aztecs: From local people, the Spanish explorers heard stories of ______
______. Part of the reason why Hernan Cortes defeats the Aztecs is he forms an
______, with the help of Malinche. Moctezuma, the Aztec emperor, wondered whether Cortes was the pale-skinned, Aztec god-king called ______. Cortez was interested in the ______and ______ornaments that Moctezuma began sending him. The Spanish eventually capture Tenochtitlan and later build ______on the ruins of the city. Part of the reason why the Spanish were successful, is due to the spread of ______which had spread among the Aztecs from the 1519 encounter. (Six Points)
(10) The Incan Empire and Pizarro: Part of the reason why Pizarro was able to conquer the Incas, is that Atahualpa had fought a ______against his brother, which weakened the Incas. The Incas had also begun to be affected by ______
______. (Two Points)
Beyond Spain’s Empire: As in the Spanish empire, the Native Americans who lived in Brazil – the Tupian Indians – had been largely wiped out by ______. Like the Spanish, the Portuguese forced ______to clear land for plantations. (Two Points)
** As many as ______Africans were sent to Brazil, and as a result, a new culture emerged in Brazil that blended European, Native American, and African elements. (One Point)
** The jealous English and Dutch shared the sentiment of King Francis I of France who said, “I should like to see Adam’s will, wherein he divided the Earth between Spain and Portugal.” What do you think does this quote mean? (One Point)
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(11) Governing the Spanish Empire: To rule all of the Spanish Empire, Spain setup ______or representatives who ruled in the king’s name. The Spanish Empire worked extensively with the help of Franciscans, Jesuits, and other missionaries to spread the religion of ______amongst the Native Americans. Eventually the crop of ______was introduced in the West Indies where it was refined into sugar, molasses, and rum. To farm the sugar, Native Americans were forced to work on large plantations where many of them worked under brutal conditions in the ______system. (Four Points)
Bartolome de Las Casas, a Catholic priest, condemned the evils of the ______in vivid reports that he sent to the Spanish rulers. Las Casas encouraged bringing in workers from ______, because he believed they were immune to tropical diseases and had skills in farming, mining, and metalworking. Las Casas later ______that advice because it furthered ______. (Four Points)
(12) Society and Culture in Spanish America: Spanish colonial peoples were divided into strict racial classes, with people born in Spain called ______, American-born descendants of Spanish settlers called ______, as well as people of Native American and European descent called ______and people of African and European descent called______. (Four Points)
By 1550, ______had become the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. Educational opportunities were limited for women, as if women likeSor Juana Ines de la Cruz wanted an education, they needed to enter a ______because she was denied entrance into the University of Mexico. (Two Points)
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