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Conquistador

World War 2 Study guide

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Unit 3 explorer test! Country of Origin and the accomplishments of the explorers: Prince Henry the Navigator: PORTUGAL Year: 1415 His conquests in Africa landed him spices and maps He founded a school of Navigation in 1419 to prefect mapmaking, shipbuilding, and instrument making Historians: honor his efforts with the name Henry the Navigator Vasco De Gama: PORTUGAL (Portugal > India) Year: 1498 Portugal > India Sails past the Cape of Good Hope and around Africa to India He helped Portugal compete with the overland spice trade routes Christopher Columbus: SPAIN (1451- 1506) (Spain > Hispaniola) Year: 1492 (he accidentally landed in the Americas instead of reaching the East Indies) Started his voyage August 3, 1492 and landed on an island in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492

Commerce, Conquest, and Colonization, 1300–1600

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Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP European History 4 May 2015 Chapter 1 Outline Commerce, Conquest, Colonization, 1300 ? 1600 1352, Mandeville'sBook of Marvelscirculated, Eurobecame consolidated/unified Reached geo. Limits; conquest of Muslim territory in 1492, Ferdinand/Isabella eradicated Muslims in west Euro that dated to 7thcentury No longer prospect of Latin Christendom's dominion in Holy Land, North Africa, other Muslimterritories were targeted by crusaders; Ottoman Turks were forging empire that would encompass all those regions/east Roman Empire in Byzantium German princes conquered territories in east Euro, slowed by Poland-Lithuania/emergence of Muscovy in northeastEuro, halted by Mongols/absorption of east Euro into Ottoman Empire

New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania

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Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP World History 7 August 2015 Chapter 24 Outline Americas/Oceania Woman Dona Marina, born 1500 to noble fam. In central Mexico, spoke Nahuatl,lang. of Aztec; fam. Sent her to Mexican coast as slave, new fam. Passed her to Yucatan peninsula Became fluent in Maya; Hernan Cortes arrived on Mexican coast in 1519, had Spanish soldier who learned Maya during captivity in Yucatan; couldn?t comm. With Aztec

Traditions and Encounters Chapter 23 Test Bank

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CHAPTER 23 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The Portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was a. Dias. b. Columbus. c. Cook. d. Magellan. e. Vasco da Gama. * (p. 597) 2. During the early modern era, which of the following non-European peoples explored the Indian Ocean? a. Japanese b. Chinese * c. Egyptian d. Mongols (p. 598) 3. Which of the following was not one of the main inspirations for European exploration? a. the desire to conquer China and India * b. the search for basic resources c. the desire to establish new trade routes to Asian markets d. the desire to spread Christianity e. the search for lands suitable for cultivation (p. 599) 4. The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was

The Earth and its Peoples: 5th Edition - Chapter 15 Notes

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Chapter 15 Notes The Maritime Revolution, to 1550 Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 The Pacific Ocean Travel across oceans and seas is one of the greatest technological challenges The rewards of sea travel make it worthwhile Ships move goods and people and ideas more profitably The Ancestors of the Polynesians originated in Asia The Polynesians developed 120-foot long seaworthy canoes They also had great navigation skills and could voyage great distances Polynesian settlements in the islands of the Eastern Pacific were planned. The populations of the islands developed distinctively and away from each other Over time, they grew more hierarchical and violent. The Indian Ocean

The Earth And Its Peoples, 3rd Edition Vocabulary Flashcards for Chapters 15-18

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Arawak Amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Carribean at the time of Columbus Atahualpa Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru, executed by the Spanish Atlantic Circuit the network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas; underlay the Atlantic system Atlantic system network of trade links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin balance of power policy in international relations in which the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful Bartolome de Las Casas First bishop of Chiapas, Mexico; protected Amerindian peoples from exploitation and helped establish the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of

Latin American History Midterm

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LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION MIDTERM 10/14 ATLANTIC PHASE 1450-1492 CARIBBEAN PHASE 1492-1519 CONQUEST PHASE 1519-1570 MATURE PHASE 1570-1750 BERNARDINO DE SABAGUN 15TH CENTURY TENOCHTITLAN (AZTEC REGION) Aztec Warfare (L2 #1) -Spanish Friar (through native informants) -ruler = lord, head of military -centralized monarchy with order -strategy of warfare/capturing leader -called upon majordomos, warriors, otomi, noblemen -?Lords of the Sun? ? priests took the lead -?slashed his breast open with a flint knife? (captives = tribute to Huitzilopochtli) BERNAL DIAZ DE CASTILLO EVE OF SPANISH CONQUEST TENOCHTITLAN (AZTEC REGION) Halls of Moctezuma (L2 #2) -Conquistador/Historian (eye witness) -how Aztecs viewed/approached Moctezuma

ch1 notes

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Founding the New Nation Christopher Columbus wasn?t planning on finding America. Many of the orginal colonists were fleeing from religious persecution but continued to refer to themselves as Europeans. The 13 colonies were all very different from each other. (EX, Puritans lived in small family owned farms and were mostly democratic. Anglicans built huge plantations with slaves, and were pretentious towards the farmers) Colonists profited greatly from trade with Britain, which ended when the they were forced into the French & Indian War The Shaping of North America North America formed 10 million years ago, by breaking apart from the single landmass called Pangea Peopling the Americas

Exploration

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Exploration I. Prehistory A. Bering Land Bridge B. Hundreds of independent tribes C. Civilizations ? Mayans ? Central, Incas ? South, Aztecs ? Mexico D. Mount Builders ? Ohio II. Early Discoverers Vikings ? Leif Ericsson ? Greenland ? Northern Canada ? 1000 AD Italian Christopher Columbus ? for Spain ? 1492 - Guanahani III. Spanish/Portugese Exploration Reasons for exploring Wealthy nations ? gold based Renaissance ? optimism/humanism ? we can do anything Trade routes Printing press ? ideas spread Mariner?s compass ? exploration possible Spain ? peace w/ Isabella and Ferdinand uniting plus no Moors/Muslims Conquistadores ? Spanish ? gold/glory ? fighting tradition Portugal Looking water route to Asia ? brought slavery from Africa

New world beginnings

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Chapter 01 - New World Beginnings I. The Shaping of North America 1. Recorded history began 6,000 years ago. It was 500 years ago that Europeans set foot on the Americas to begin colonization 2. The theory of Pangaea exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. They then spread out as drifting islands. 3. Geologic forces of continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. 4. The Great Ice Age thrust down over North America & scoured the present day American Midwest. II. Peopling the Americas 1. The Land Bridge theory. o As the Great Ice Age diminished, so did the glaciers over North America. o The theory holds that a Land Bridge emerged linking Asia & North America across what is now known as the Bering

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