Week 7 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Colonialism
Process by which some nations conquered, settled and exploited other areas of the world
Lupita Cultural Complex
crossing of open ocean in Oceania leading to the settlement in Pacific islands (possible because of technological advancement, boats, stick/ shell charts and stars)
Clovis Points
spread of clovis culture (Arrow heads) seen everywhere along NA > trade networks spreading culture
Jacques Cartier/ Samuel de Champlain
Early trader in Canada, Mi’kmaq were trading much earlier than them
Donnacona and Domagaya
St. Lawrence Iroquois who met Jac and Sam.
Early evolution of Indigenous peoples (2 groups)
- Paleo-Eskimo to Dorset
- Thule to Inuit
Umiaq
Big multi-man rowed boat, used by Dorset/ Inuit Precursors to get to inhabitable land
Christopher Columbus
Gave Europe first view of America societies like Aztecs and Incas
Effects of sedentary settlements
- used surpluses
- created hierarchies and job specializations
- was provided with time and opportunity
Why groups did not become Colonizers
- lacked means, desire or both
- First Nation in Pacific South West
-Aztecs, Mayans, Incas did locally but not overseas
What was the main cause of colonialism
surplus societies (but did not mean lack of food)
- requires a means and ideals to colonize
Function of Myths
scare and warn others about explorations: kept them from expansion
- “there be monsters” was the saying talking about outside areas
Pliny the Elder
wrote about mutant races in Africa (1st Century)
Age of Discovery
Great movement of exploration. Trying to find and claim more land before other empires did (15th-17thC),
Silk Road
Trade route which connected the East Asia and West Asia (Acted as a prelude to Age of Discovery), Named Silk Road because of the amount of silk exported
Marco Polo
Travelled along the silk road and documented it (let Europe know about foreign countries), > one of the first documented experience
Motivation for exploration
Gold, Glory, God
Other
Different or less than (allowing the assertion of authority)
Literature of Exploration
Books, Diaries, letters, travelogues, ship logs, reports, accounts
Roanoke
-First colonial settlement: Failed
- some were absorbed into Indigenous groups
James Town
- First settlement to succeed
John Smith
Wrote Pocahontas, a story about the survival of the colony of Jamestown
Erdapfel
First globe, called the Nurnberg Terrestrial Globe
Abraham Ortelius
Made the first Altus 1570
