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Fernidad Magellan
Set out to find western route to Asia 1st to pass southern tip of South America Proved the world is round First to circumnavigate the world
Hernandez Cortez
Conquered the aztecs
Montezuma- Aztec king killed
Spanish won because- adavanced weapons, disease, native allies
Francisco Pizarro
Conquered Peru
Conquest results
Spain culture and Catholicism spread to Latin and South America
Spain became rich
Spanish colonies were made up of…
Peninsulares- Spanish settlers
Mestizo-mixed Spanish and native Americans
Encomienda-land and native slaves given to the Spanish
Missionaries- setup throughout colonies to spread Christianity
Jacques Cartier
Claimed Canada for the French
Samuel de Champlain
Founded New France and Quebec
Results
Little colonization
Fur trade made money
English colonies
Jamestown- first English colony
- made money from tobacco
Plymouth- 2nd colony
- founded by pilgrims for religious freedom.
Massachusetts bay- founded by puritans for religious freedom.
Triangular trade
Trade between 3 continents- included slaves
Slavery
Created to replenish dead Native American slaves worked tobacco and sugar plantations
Middle passage
Slave transfer between from Africa to both America
By 1800
- 11 million slaves taken to the americas
- 2 million slaves died in middle passage.
Colombian exchange
The transfer of animals, plants, culture, humans, diseases, technology and ideas between America and Europe/Africa.
To Europe- peanuts, pineapples, cocoa, tomatoes and more.
To the americas- wheat, cows, horses, firearms, the wheel and axel technologies.
From Europe- small pox, mumps influenza, it wiped out entire populations.