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