1: Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress Flashcards
(33 cards)
Columbus wrote this about the Arawak upon their first encounter (1):
“They would make fine servants. . . . With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want”
Upon arrival to the Americas, Columbus most wanted to know the location of this precious resource (1)
Gold
The Arawaks resided on which Islands? (1)
The Bahamas
Recently unified Spain had a nobility which despite representing 2% of the population owned this percentage of the land (2)
95%
What was the name of the largest of the three sailing ships that Columbus set out with? (2)
the Santa Maria
On October 12 1492, a sailor on Columbus’ expedition spotted land belonging to this set of Islands in the Caribbean sea (2)
The Bahamas
The Arawaks had a developed agriculture of these 3 goods (2)
Corn, yams, cassava
Columbus built the first European military base in the Western Hemisphere on this island and named it this Spanish word for Christmas (3)
Hispaniola; Navidad
Columbus’ report to the Court in Madrid promised their Majesties “as much gold as they need . . . and as many of these as they ask” (3)
Slaves
Being unable to find vast fields of gold in Haiti, Columbus and his men turned instead to collecting these (4)
Slaves
In 2 years on Haiti, how many of the 250,000 Indians were dead by murder, mutilation, or suicide? (4)
Half
How many Indians were left on Haiti by 1550? (4)
500
Who is the chief source of information about what happened on the Islands after Columbus came? (5)
Bartolome de las Casas
Las Casas wrote that Indians looked upon this with “as much casualness as we look upon a man’s head or at this hands” (5)
Nakedness
Husband and wives in Hispaniola, together once every eight or ten months due to the men’s work in the mines, and being so exhausted and depressed, ceased to do this (6)
Procreate
Las Casas claims that this many people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines from 1494 to 1508 in Hispaniola (7)
Over 3,000,000
About the mass death on Hispaniola, Las Casas wrote, “Who in future generations will ____ this?” (7)
Believe
True or false: Zinn’s discussion of our “learned sense of moral proportion” describes the way in which we inherit the weight given to different events in History by scholars. (Example: 80% concern with greatness of Columbus, 20% concern with genocide) (9)
True
“History is the memory of states” is a quote by this man in his book “A World Restored” (9)
Henry Kissinger
This “explorer” reeked havoc on the Aztecs in Mexico (11)
Hernando Cortes
Name the Spanish conquistador who terrorized Peru (12)
Pizarro
The hasty hunt for gold was part of what Karl Marx called “the primitive ______ of ______” (12)
Accumulation of capital
Complete the sentence: “Not able to _____ the Indians, and not able to _____ with them, the English decided to _______ them” (13)
Enslave; live; exterminate
What was “the first year of the white man in Virginia”? (13)
1607
