Spanish conquest Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact Explain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America Explain how the spread of maize impacted the American Southwest The new crop that Europeans brought during the Columbian Exchange allowed for migrating Natives to learn how to farm/ nurture crops. in return Europeans received new crops to take back to the old world, the main one being maize. Th...

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 po...

Conquest Model - ANSWER-Model of Interpretation: Emphasized European superiority 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 Dea...

APUSH Exam Review 2021 Questions & Answers 1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact - ANSWER-Explain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America Explain how the spread of maize impacted the American Southwest - ANSWER-The new crop that Europeans brought during the Columbian Exchange allowed for migrating Natives to learn how to farm/ nurture crops. in return Europeans received new crops ...

After sailing westward, in what part of the world did Columbus think he had landed? - Asia (East Indies) After the destruction of the Spanish Armada, he was commissioned to raid Spanish towns and treasure in the New World, leading to his circumnavigation of the world in 1577. - Drake In 1531, he led an expedition into South America and began the conquest of the Inca Empire. - Francisco Pizarro In 1682, this French explorer traveled the length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico ...

After sailing westward, in what part of the world did Columbus think he had landed? - Asia (East Indies) After the destruction of the Spanish Armada, he was commissioned to raid Spanish towns and treasure in the New World, leading to his circumnavigation of the world in 1577. - Drake In 1531, he led an expedition into South America and began the conquest of the Inca Empire. - Francisco Pizarro In 1682, this French explorer traveled the length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico ...

In the minds of European imperialists once Indians ceased to be powerful enough to demand respect or economically profitable as trading partners, they became merely obstacles to be removed. - True Puritans believed that religion was necessary to control the disorders of capitalism and competitive individualism. - True Bacon's Rebellion was neither a revolt against colonial authority nor a class conflict between "common people" and the planter ruling class. - False: Bacon's Rebellion was...

APUSH Periods 1-5 Latest Update 100% Pass Columbian exchange The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. Encomienda system A system whereby the Spanish crown granted the conquerors the right to forcibly employ groups of Indians; it was a disguised form of slavery. Juan Ponce de Leon Spanish Explorer who discovered and gave Florida its name while searching for the "Fountain of Youth" Roanoke "The L...

Conquest Model - ANSWER-Model of Interpretation: Emphasized European superiority 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 Dea...

"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...