Silk Road & Black Death
He is perhaps one of the most famous travelers of the Silk Road:
Who is Marco Polo
This was the home to the high nobility and princes. (France)
What is Versailles?
First country to start the exploration
What is Portugal?
Why are the Columbian voyages often considered to be the turning point in the history of the New World?
What is They began a period of intensifying contact between Europe and the New World
"During the morning we arrived on a broad causeway which separated the Lakes Chilco from the Lakes of Xochimilco, and when we saw so many cities and villages built on the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway, we were amazed and said that it was like the enchantment they tell of in the legend of Amadis, on account of the towers and pyramids and buildings rising from the water, and all built of masonry. Some of our soldiers even asked whether some of the things we saw were not a dream?"
- Account of Bernal Diaz del Castillo
According to the excerpt above, why were European explorers amazed by the Aztec civilization?
A. It had developed a monotheistic religion that closely resembled Christianity.
B. It was greatly urbanized with complex cities under the control of a central ruler.
C. It depended on the military as a labor force for building monumental architecture.
D. It developed a commercial economy without access to an abundant supply of raw materials
What is B. It was greatly urbanized with complex cities under the control of a central ruler.
What did people think started the plague? -List one readon
Bad air
Jewish
Punishment from God
Peter the Great instituted this, which forced the nobility to provide service to the government and start at the lowest rank.
What is The Table of Ranks?
What were the goals of a conquistador?
God, gold, glory
A policy in which nations seek to grow more powerful through acquisition of gold/silver and a favorable balance of trade
Mercantilism
Why were the conquistadors able to conquer the Native Americans like the Aztec so quickly? (at least two)
. Superior weapons (guns/cannons/steel)
2. Horses
3. Native Americans weakened by disease (no immunity)
4. Spanish made alliances with Aztec groups
Besides religion, what was another good/Idea exchanged along the Silk Routes?
Papermaking, Gunpowder, Silk, Glass making, Compass technology, Crossbow technology, disease
Who were the Spanish King and Queen that funded a voyage to the New World ?
What is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
This was a navigational tool used by sailors to determine their latitude at sea by measuring the angle between the horizon and the North Star or the sun.
What is an Astrolabe?
Before ______ were introduced, Native Americans were forced to do labor for Europeans.
What is enslaved African?
What animal changed life for Native Americans?
Horses
A group of people/traders traveling together are called what?
a caravan
What grants an absolute monarch their power?
Divine intervention/God
The first person to circumnavigate the globe
Magellan
Spanish landlords forced Native Americans to mine, ranch, and farm for them (slavery)
encomienda system
This Treaty divided the newly-found Americas between Spain and Portugal.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
What was the name of the bacteria that caused the Black Death?
Yersinia Pestis
Where does the term "absolute monarchy" come from?
Modern Europe
Sailing around the world...
What is 'circumnavigate'?
He wrote about his experiences in the Middle Passage and the inhumane treatment of captured Africans
Olaudah Equiano
a person of mixed Native American and Spanish Ancestry
Mestizo