Test Flashcards

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Fernidad Magellan

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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
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Hernandez Cortez

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Conquered the aztecs
Montezuma- Aztec king killed
Spanish won because- adavanced weapons, disease, native allies

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3
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Francisco Pizarro

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Conquered Peru

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4
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Conquest results

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Spain culture and Catholicism spread to Latin and South America

Spain became rich

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5
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Spanish colonies were made up of…

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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

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6
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Jacques Cartier

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Claimed Canada for the French

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7
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Samuel de Champlain

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Founded New France and Quebec

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8
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Results

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Little colonization

Fur trade made money

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9
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English colonies

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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.

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10
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Triangular trade

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Trade between 3 continents- included slaves

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11
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Slavery

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Created to replenish dead Native American slaves worked tobacco and sugar plantations

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Middle passage

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Slave transfer between from Africa to both America

By 1800

  • 11 million slaves taken to the americas
  • 2 million slaves died in middle passage.
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Colombian exchange

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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.

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