Spanish conquest Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

"In the course of the fifth year [1519] the terrible pestilence began. First there was a cough, then blood. The number of deaths at this time was truly terrible. In 1520 the pestilence spread. Truly, the number of deaths among the people was terrible and the people could not escape from the pestilence. In 1521 my father, King Hunyg, died. The elders and the priests died alike from the pestilence. Half the people threw themselves into the ravines to escape it. The oldest son of the king die...

American Yawp Study Guide Exam Questions Answers Yawp Chapter 1 - ANS The New World What is the name of the Native American group who lived in Chaco Canyon? - ANS Pueblo What is the best term to describe Native American ancestry/descent? - ANS Matrilineal What was the name of the largest city in the Mississippian Empire? - ANS Cahokia Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese emerged as an early sea power. Which of these inventions contributed to ...

encomienda - A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it asiento system - Required the Spanish to pay a tax to their king on each slave they imported to the Americas bering land bridge - Historians believe that the earliest Americans came over the______ which connected Asia and North America maya - A Meso-American civilization, which reached its height between a.d. 250 and 900 inca - a member of any of the domin...

Before the coming of Europeans, the peoples who lived in what is now the United States had not developed - A common language The first European country to launch long ocean voyages of exploration was - Portugal When Christopher Columbus made his famous voyages to the New World, he - Believed that he had reached the Far East The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was, in part, due to - The diseases the Spaniards had given the Indians Before the arrival of the Europeans, the political system of...

HIUS221 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Columbian Exchange - answerThe exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas; no organized notion of conquest. 15th century. Atlantic Slave Trade - answerLasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. One part of a three-part economical system known as the Middle Passage of the Triangular Trade. pidgin language - answerA form of speech that adopts...

Corn or Maize Staple crop that formed the economic foundation of Indian civilizations. Portugal First European nation to send explorers around the west coast of Africa. Brainpower Read More Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:00 Full screen Horse Animal introduced by Europeans that changed Indian way of life on the Great Plains Treaty of Tordesillas Treaty that secured Spanish title to lands in Americas by dividing t...

Early Civilizations - CORRECT ANSWER-Immersed in South and Central America and Mexico In Peru the Incas - CORRECT ANSWER-Created the largest empire in the Americas stretching almost 2000 miles long South America develop a complex administrative system pave roads Mesoamerican Civilizations - CORRECT ANSWER--Mayans and Aztecs -Occupied Central America and much of Mexico -Developed a strong agricultural system and extensive trade networks, followed a solar calendar, and participated in high...

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 4.2Christopher Columbus - correct answers Gained the Spanish monarchs' - Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand - support in 1492 for voyages across the Atlantic; his voyages helped increase the interest in discovery What did conquest bring? - correct answers They brought wealth to states thru tax collection & new trading opportunities; it also brought great material wealth, especially silver, to European states What stoked expansion? - correct answers Rival...

HIUS221 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Columbian Exchange - answerThe exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas; no organized notion of conquest. 15th century. Atlantic Slave Trade - answerLasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. One part of a three-part economical system known as the Middle Passage of the Triangular Trade. pidgin language - answerA form of speech that adopts...

Holocaust Model -ANSWER_ Model of Interpretation: Applied to consequences of Euro expansion/ Many NA killed in 100 years 50-60 million/ Most died from diesease brought by NA US Army distributed blankets with small pox virus Encounters Model -ANSWER_ Model of Interpretation (Most popular with historians): Not based on conquest. Shows perspective of English and the NA. Does not favor either Raising the Dead -ANSWER_ Form of Indian Justince-A slace was given to the individuals family who l...