Exploration Notes
How does Religion play a role in exploration?
Europeans like Spain, wanted to spread christianity and hopely weaked middle eastern Muslims who controlled trade with Asia
What is Jared Diamond's "highly original" theory?
Why was farming and raising livestock so imoportant to the building of larger societies?
1. It is "What separates the winner and the losers?" It is GEOGRAPHY
More abundant food supplies could support denser populations, and farming tied people to their land.The spanish had more muscle power like horses an oxes, but the natives had to do anything by hand.
What was the Virgina Company?
What job do most settlers had?
What did the King James wanted to prevent?
The virginia company was a stock company, a group of wealthy investors are share holders.
The job of a gentlement, good, honest people. (como yo)
He wanted to prevent Spanish advandces in the New World and find a Northwest Passage to Asia
What is mercantilism and printing press?
Printing Press: machine by which text and images are transferred from movable type to paper or other media by means of ink. Mercantilism:an economic theory that suggest that theory is only so much wealth dsitributed around the world
What did Atahualpa think of Pizzaro and his mens?
They were not gods,he had nothing to fear from the bearded white stranger and his 180 men.
What was the Starving Time?
Who was Jhon Smith ? who supposedly saved him? What motto he believes?
The "starving time." Disease, violence, drought, a meager harvest followed by a harsh winter, and poor drinking water left the majority of colonists dead that winter.
John Smith taked the leadership of the colony, he was saved by Pocahonta. He believes "He that will not work shall not eat"
What begins the Age of Exploration and who was Vasco da Gama?
When Henry the navigator, creates the navigation schools and financed earlys expeditions.
The one to succeed to get to Asia, the difference of Bartolomeu Dias
Why the Spanish had advanced to steel swords while the Incas were still making tools from bronze?
Because of where they established(geografia), they were better in technology, making it easy to get steel
What did Jhon Rolfe creates?
Tabacco becomes a?
who marries Jhon Rolfe? what happened after?
In 1612 Jhon Rolfe creates a smoother breed of tobacco
Tobacco become a useful cash crop because of its popularity in england\
Jhon Rolfe marries Pocahonta which leads to the peace of English and Natives
Who was Amerigo Vesspucci?
Christopher was an exellent navigator who tried to get to Asia, but after his large journey he found what is now America.
Amerigo Vespucci was the one who realized that where christopher Columbus were is not Asia, it was a hole new continent
How did Pizzarro's men first react to the size of the Inca's army?
They were scared, there were about 80,000 Inca's warriors
What is a Indurent Servants?
What happens when the first africans are brought to Jamestown?
Poor english who agreed to work for a number of years in return their passage to england again
in 1619, the institution of slavery begins
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
What was the Northwest Passage?
The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement about Spain and Portugal, which ended in Portugal getting Brazil and Spain the west side(osea la izquierda).
England, France and the Netherlands ignore the Treaty of Tordesillas, they tried to find a way from North America to Asia, which doesn't exist. After, the English settle in eastern coast of USA and a part of Canada,the Dutch settle in New York and the French in the interior of USA and the eastern Canada
Why was the development of the printing process so important?
It was the ultimate transfer of knowledge, also, Information could now be spread much more quickly
What purposes did the House of Burgesses had? What is it become?
How does the arrival of womens help make Jamestown a more permanent colony?
Establihed in 1619 so colonist could make thir own laws. It becomes the first representative goverment in america.
Allow settlers to establish families