ap history chap. 1&2 Flashcards
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| 193040953 | Marco Polo | Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade | |
| 193040954 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541) | |
| 193040955 | Juan Ponce de Leon | Spanish Explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the "Fountian of Youth" | |
| 193040956 | hernando de soto | Spanish explorer who discovered and claimed the Mississippi River for Spain | |
| 193040957 | montezuma | Powerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquerors | |
| 193040958 | hernan cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) | |
| 193040959 | francisco coronado | A Spanish soldier and commander; in 1540, he led an expedition north from Mexico into Arizona; he was searching for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold, but only found Adobe pueblos. | |
| 193040960 | jacques cartier | French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557) | |
| 193040961 | giovanni da verrazano | Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528) | |
| 193040962 | john cabot | Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498) | |
| 193040963 | vasco nunez balboa | Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519) | |
| 193040964 | quetzalcoatl | Aztec nature god, feathered serpent, his disappearance and promised return coincided with the arrival of Cortes | |
| 193040965 | bartolomeu dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428) | |
| 193040966 | hiawatha | a native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century) | |
| 193040967 | bartolome de las casas | First bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor, (476 | |
| 193040968 | ferdinand magellan | ... | |
| 193040969 | vasco da gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. (p. 428) | |
| 193040970 | TREATY OF TORDESILLAS | Set the Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas. | |
| 193040971 | pocahontas | a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617) | |
| 193040972 | powhatan | Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia | |
| 193040973 | john rolfe | He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony. | |
| 193040974 | walter raleigh | Received a charter from Queen Elizabeth I to explore the American coastline. His ships landed on Roanoke, which became a "lost colony." | |
| 193040975 | james oglethorpe | Founder and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony. Many colonists felt that Oglethorpe was a dictator, and that (along with the colonist's dissatisfaction over not being allowed to own slaves) caused the colony to break down and Oglethorpe to lose his position as governor. | |
| 193040976 | oliver cromwell | English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658) | |
| 193040977 | william penn | Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718) | |
| 193040978 | james1 | first stuart of england | |
| 193040979 | charles 1 | tried to advacate divine right of kings and bring more absolutism. brought to much catholictism to te church of england.executed in 1649 | |
| 193040980 | charles 2 | was a man who was disliked for his support of catholicism in england | |
| 193040981 | joint-stock company | A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts. | |
| 193040982 | plantation colonies | The colonies, especially the southern ones, that relied on the plantation method of farming. |