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What happened after Cortes retreating tenochtitlan
Cortes laid siège to tenochtitlan
What does siege mean
When the military surrounds a certain area and don’t let food or water in certain areas so they can colonize the city
Why did Cortes return to tenochtitlan
For the gold
Hat were the two reasons Cortes captured tenochtitlan
- better firearms
- only 3 causeways to get into the city
What did Cortes use slaves for
To mine gold silver and later cole
Who did Cortes receive supplie from
His allies Vera Cruz
What did Cortes’s movement symbolize
The downfall of first nations people and their ways of living the hand of the European colonists
What consistent theme was established
Structures within a colony
What was established
- economic instrument
- mercantilism
- trade
- cultural exchange
What is a colony
A place that could be conquered by another
After the widespread of colonialism what happened
The world economy was centred around the powers of Western Europe
Explain a company
In charge of claiming Land, hiring people and paying them to extract resources
Explain a bank
The countries needed money to fund there exploration trips so the banks were in charge of loaning money and the explorers paid the banks back. It was in the hope that they would make profit
Name the four colonizing countries
France
Spain
Portugal
Great Britain
What was mercantilism for
Strengthening colonizing countries
What is capatalism
The more a county produces stuff the more people buy and make money and strengthens the economy
Explain mercantilism in a few short words
Process of creating wealth for Europe
What is a mother country
European country that sponcer’s its colonies and is always the one to make the profit because the colony does not profit as much
What is the point of mercantilism?
Is to economically benefit the mother country and strengthen their economy so that these countries become more powerful on the world stage
Explain the five steps of mercantilism (also draw a chart)
- The colony send the raw material to its mother country because it’s too expensive to process it because there no factories in a colony so they do it in the mother country
- In the mother country the raw materials are processed and once there processed they get sent to the European markets
- On the European markets the items are sold and all the profit goes back to the mother country
- The mother country then uses some of the money to buy the supplies needed to make the items
- They are then send to the colony to repeat the cycle
What does colonization mean?
When a European country takes over another territory (mostly Europe + South America)
For the purpose of power and profits
The process of colonization is supported by slavery and money given by the mother country
Who was condemned to slavery
The aboriginals
Why did many of the aboriginals die
Because when they were brought to European country they did not have the antibody that Europeans had to not get a disease. The disease was like the chicken picks
What did they do to fill the spaces of all the people that had died?
They went to Africa and room many African slaves and forced them to work but also many of them died from terrible working conditions and the disease
