Chapter 1- (1491-1607)
How did indigenous populations in America relate to their environments prior to European contact?
The Pristine Myth
Large populations
Looked untouched
The environment recovered in 1750
Civilizations prior to Columbus
Cahokia
Located in St. Louis
The AztechEmpire
In North America
The Iroquios Confederacy
Located in north America
The Inca Empire
Located in Peru
Pangaea
300 million years ago there was a supercontinet
Pangaea broke apart 175 million years ago
Cultivation of maze
They had to clear the land
People were planting corn in 1200 B.C.
2,000 seperate languages
To the Ends of the Earth
Cristopher wanted glory, gold, and wanted to spread religion
What were the cause and effects of the age of discovery
New trade route
In the 11th and 12th century the holy wars opened
Constantinople and the Byzantine empire fell
1271 Marco polo went to china and came back with stories and goods
Role of geography
Nation buildings
Nation states increased taxes to explore
Monarchs supported it
King Henry the 8th banished jis wife and child to be locked out to acastle to never leave
Technology and exploration
The Seafaring vikings created stronger ships by overlapping the planks
for better control they included stern rudders
The Arab astrolabe and sextent's helped to measure the astronomical distances
Th knowledge about the land'sincreased from the increase of the number of voyages
Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493
COlumbus was a very
Tordeslilla
How did the Colombian exchange affect interaction between Europeans and natives and among indigenous people in north America
The Columbian Exchange: Biological andcultural sequences of 1942
Redistribtion of world'spopulations was vuluntary and involuntary
The indians were unprepared andunexpoed to Eiropean idsease
The lst year of explorationn was in 1620
Brought back items sucuch as jewerlry, natives , and plants
Lawlessness
hought the world was ina pear shape and was a gres\at mariner an navigtor
1.4 How did the Spanish treatment of native Americans set the stage for their demise in North America
Spanish exploration and conquest
Spain secured land with the treaty of tordeslillas
During the renaissance age, England and Spain were fighting for land in the New World.
The motives of the s Cpanish conquiscators were
Wealth
Power
Prestige
Increasing opportunities for Spanish trade
Mostly desired to find Gold and Silver.
They desired Gold and Silver to make coins
They mined for most of the gold, The New world wealth in Spain flew up
Getting gold to Europe was not easy.
People across the world were judged on where they were from
People who were born is Spain were at the top of the chart with power, while other foreign tribes were more at the bottom with less power
Ecomienda system
A system where conquistadors get Indians to Christianize them and take care of them, but they were as slaves
The Spanish mission system
They tried to convert the Indians to Catholicism. Some were converted, but others revolted
The Spanish brought over diseases
The Spanish brought over diseases like smallpox, measles, typhoid, whooping cough, dysentery, and Cholera.