Ep. 7A
When the vikings arrived in America, what tribe did they find?
The Innu
What problem did the Europeans introduce into the Americas?
Disease.
Why did the Pilgrims bury their dead first thing in the morning?
To hide their dwindling numbers.
Why were the Pilgrims shocked when they had their first meeting with a member of the Wabenaki tribe?
He greeted them in their own language.
What did the Aztecs believe would get for sacrificing Tlahuicole's heart to the sun god Huitzopochtli?
A more bountiful harvest- corn.
More than any other weapon, ___________________ helped Cortes defeat the Aztecs.
Smallpox/disease.
What did the Spanish create out of the silver at Potosi?
Peso de Ocho (pieces of eight)- silver coins
How did Squanto help the Pilgrims survive?
He brokered friendships/alliances.
he taught them how to grow crops in poor soil by using fish as a fertilizer.
Why did the Aztecs prefer to take their captives alive?
So they could pay a debt of blood to their gods.
So he could fight in public later.
Cortes was invited into Montezuma's throne room. What was his plan?
To kidnap the emperor.
"Everything about financial markets is about timing. The time you enter a contract and the timing you get out." What does this mean?
If you buy and sell at the right time you can make a fortune. If you don't, you can lose everything.
What did the Portuguese want from Nzinga?
They wanted her territory and to enslave her people.
The Aztecs didn't only enjoy fighting. What else did their civilization admire?
The arts.
Mathematics.
Philosophy.
Culture.
What advantage does a triangular lateen sale have?
You could sail against the wind.
The rarity of tulips led to the birth of speculation: the birth of future markets. What is a future market?
You buy things before they are available.
Why was the Taj Mahal built?
It was a monument to Mumtaz Mahal's wife who died during childbirth.
Sultan Mehmet II's big challenge was to take down the walls of Constantinople. How did they do this?
The shot cannonballs all the time in shifts.
What things interested Columbus the most in his first meeting with the Taino?
That the people kept calling on God and believed they'd come from heaven.
That they became attached to the Spanish explorers.
The gold rings that hung from their noses.
Potosi was a mountain with a large amount of silver in it. Once it was mined, how did they refine the rest of it?
They used a chemical formula involving mercury.
Give two examples of how the creation of Universal Currency affected a nation or people.
Led to piracy.
Made Amsterdam wealthy.
Led to future trading in commodities like tulips.
Increased the demand for luxuries like sugar.
increased the slave trade.Led to migration.