What is the process of settling and establishing control over land and Indigenous people settled on that land called?
Colonization
What was the line called that declared that everything to the west belonged to Spain and everything to the east belonged to Portugal?
Line of Demarcation
What was the middle passage?
The middle leg of the triangular trade, when ships left Africa filled with kidnapped people
What is Mercantilism?
the theory that a nation's power was in its wealth
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
Who really were the first Europeans to explore North America?
The Vikings
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The mixing of plants, animals, viruses, and bacteria between the Americas and the rest of the world
What were the 3 kinds of Spanish settlements in the Americas?
pueblos, missions, and presidios
What is Indentured Servitude?
the condition of being a contracted laborer
What was the first permanent Spanish settlement in North America?
St. Augustine, Florida
The Crusades and travles of Marco Polo introduced Europeans to the four S's. What are the four S's?
Spices, Silk, Scents, precious Stones
What 3 ships did Columbus set sail with?
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
How did Columbus and his crew treat the Indigenous people they met?
With extreme cruelty. They abused and enslaved Indigenous people and forced them to mine for gold.
Explain the system of Indentured Servitude
a person signed a contract for several years of service to a landowner in exchange for paid travel to the New World, landowners were given extra land.
Who was Pochahontas?
the daughter of Chief Powhatan and wife of John Rolfe
What was the silk road?
a network of trading routes that linked China and the west
Explain the effective system that Conquistadores used for colonization? (hint: King's fifth)
Conquistadores settled in America in return for 20 percent of any treasure they seized in the area
Why did powerful Mesoamerican empires fall to the Spanish? (3 main reasons)
Spanish Military edge, taking advantage of local rivalries, European diseases
What caused the harsh living conditions of Jamestown?
dirty and undrinkable water, disease-carrying mosquitoes, focus on searching for gold instead of building houses or planting food
What is a Northwest Passage?
a way to sail west through northern Canada to get to Asia
Who built a school of navigation which developed the Caravel?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Why were Indigenous people called Indians?
Columbus thought that he was in the Indies in Asia
What were the 2 main missions of Spanish colonies in America?
convert the Indigenous people to catholicism, enrich the spanish moncarchy
How did John Cabot disappear?
After landing in Canada, he thought it was Asia and set sail for Japan, and was never heard from again
What is a mutiny?
to revolt or rebel against authority, especially by sailors against their officers