Pre-Columbian Cultures

Question 1

Pre-Columbian Natives
Importance of Maize

Question 2

Pre-columbian Natives
Eastern Woodland Culture

Question 3

Pre-columbian natives
Great Plain’s culture

Question 4

Pre-columbian natives
Great Basin Culture

Question 5

Pre-columbian natives
Pueblo Culture

Question 6

Pre-columbian natives
Pacific northwest culture

Question 7

Spanish Conquest
Conquest of the Aztecs

Answer 7

Catholic soldiers with the blessing of the crown was to gather land. Cortez comes in from 1519-21 into the Aztecs and conquers them, disease rampaging a lot of their community. Wasn’t their goal. They were motivated by Gold, god, and glory, wanting to spread their religion.

Question 8

Spanish Conquest
Conquest of Incas

Answer 8

The Inca’s were split into four different ruling families, however, like a lot of dynasties, had trouble with next in line for the throne. These disputes weakened the incan empire, making way for Pizarro’s conquest. Pizarro saw this land as a place for growth and wealth, as well as the spread of catholocism

Question 9

Spanish Conquest
Use of natives as slaves in caribbean

Answer 9

Enslaved about 250,000 to 650,000 native people in the caribbean from 1492 until the end of the 16th century

Question 10

New Spain
Economy of new spain

Answer 10

Using natives as cheap labor on encomienda land in order to make a profit off of farming and gold mining.

Question 11

New Spain
Encomienda system

Answer 11

Conquistadores are given land, whoever lives on it become your servants, working as cheap labor as a way to get them to convert. Tax the laborers with a portion of what they produce. Pre-cursor to the plantation

Question 12

New Spain
Missions communities

Question 13

New Spain
Spanish class system

Answer 13

Marrying into the natives since a lot of them are single men. They are called Mestizo’s a mix of native and Spanish. Racial Hierarchy

Question 14

New Spain
Syncretic religious

Answer 14

Spanish pull back and allow the natives to celebrate their culture, as long as they respect the crown

Question 15

New Spain
Native resistance

Answer 15

Rebellion happens, such as Pope’s rebelliong (Pueblo revolt) 1680, there weren’t many Spanish, mostly native and they were tired of the way they were treated, They killed spanish priests and got rid of their churches, and for a decade, the spanish pulled back. Black legend- the idea that the only goal of the spanish was to come and destroy them.

Question 16

New spain
African slave trade

Question 17

New Spain
Conflict with england

Question 18

Exploration
Motives for european exploration

Question 19

Exploration
Methods for exploration/Technology

Answer 19

Portuguese claim the route around the tip of Africa under De Gama using meritime tech, like a sextant, a compass, or caravels ships that allowed faster travel, allowed portuguese to find an alternate route to the east.

Question 20

Exploration
Financial systems

Answer 20

Places such as England used Joint Stock companies to pay for their trips as a way to create revenue and send more resources/colonists to sail across the atlantic

Question 21

Columbian exchange
Demographic impact on natives

Answer 21

They steeply declined as disease rampaged a lot of native tribes when encountering the spanish

Question 22

Columbian exchange
Demographic impact on europe

Answer 22

Population increases because of access to new foods such as potatoes, maize, ect, from the New World

Question 23

Columbian exchange
Economic impact on europe

Answer 23

Exchange of ideas and cultures. They’ve now gained the ability to trade with other european countries as well as the middle east, finally having something of value to offer the rest of the world.