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Apush study Guide ecomienda

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Name: ___________________________________________ The Encomienda System Big Idea Questions Guided Notes Areas of Concern Who groups benefited from encomiendas? Who was an individual that was instrumental in the decline of encomiendas? The New Curriculum and Encomiendas ? Key Concept 1.2, I, D. ?In the economies of the Spanish colonies, Indian labor, used in the encomienda system to support plantation-based agriculture and extract precious metals and other resources, was gradually replaced by African slavery.? ? Page 24 of the Curriculum framework ? Since the encomienda system is specifically mentioned in the framework, there is a good chance you will be directly assessed on it.

New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania

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Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP World History 7 August 2015 Chapter 24 Outline Americas/Oceania Woman Dona Marina, born 1500 to noble fam. In central Mexico, spoke Nahuatl,lang. of Aztec; fam. Sent her to Mexican coast as slave, new fam. Passed her to Yucatan peninsula Became fluent in Maya; Hernan Cortes arrived on Mexican coast in 1519, had Spanish soldier who learned Maya during captivity in Yucatan; couldn?t comm. With Aztec

Traditions and Encounters Chapter 25 Test Bank

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CHAPTER 25 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Do?a Marina was a. the first viceroy of the Spanish colonies in the Americas. b. the leading Spanish banker who funded exploration. c. the Portuguese explorer who first sighted Australia. d. a Mexican woman who aided Cort?s in his conquest of the Aztecs. * e. the nautical term for the dominant westerly wind that made voyages to the Americas faster. (p. 665) 2. When the Spanish invaded the Aztec empire, a. the subject tribes of the empire remained faithful to the Aztecs. b. the subject tribes fled south for Inca protection. c. they were emboldened by their previous easy conquest of the Inca. d. they were interested in gaining control of tobacco as a profitable cash crop.

America: a Narrative History by Tindall and Shi notes Chapter 1

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Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress Columbus Arrives at the Americas Goal was to sail to Indies and Asia Expected to find lots of Gold and Spices Believed there were fields of gold that could be found there Financed by Spain Arawak people of the Bahama Islands greeted Columbus with food and gifts ?willingly traded everything they owned? Columbus oppresses the Native Americans Columbus writes, ?With fifty men we could subjugate them al ad make them do whatever we want Forced the Arawaks into giving him gold Also took five hundred Arawaks to be slaves in Spain Two hundred of them died in transit to Spain Columbus then moves to Haiti and starts looking for gold Indians were forced to find gold Indians that didn?t find any were killed

Exploration

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Exploration I. Prehistory A. Bering Land Bridge B. Hundreds of independent tribes C. Civilizations ? Mayans ? Central, Incas ? South, Aztecs ? Mexico D. Mount Builders ? Ohio II. Early Discoverers Vikings ? Leif Ericsson ? Greenland ? Northern Canada ? 1000 AD Italian Christopher Columbus ? for Spain ? 1492 - Guanahani III. Spanish/Portugese Exploration Reasons for exploring Wealthy nations ? gold based Renaissance ? optimism/humanism ? we can do anything Trade routes Printing press ? ideas spread Mariner?s compass ? exploration possible Spain ? peace w/ Isabella and Ferdinand uniting plus no Moors/Muslims Conquistadores ? Spanish ? gold/glory ? fighting tradition Portugal Looking water route to Asia ? brought slavery from Africa

American Pageant 13th edition Chapter 1 Notes

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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings (33,000 B.C. ? A.D. 1769) The Shaping of North America 225 million years ago ? supercontinent w/ all world?s dry land break away into continents & oceans earth?s crust shifts and folds, forms mountain ranges ex. Appalachians, Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Cascades, Cost Ranges 10 million years ago ? North America basic shape formed Canadian Shield Great Ice Age 2 million years ago 10,000 years ago ? glaciers retreat Canadian Shield is depressed, topsoil gone Great Lakes filled Peopling the Americas most come by land, some by boat 35,000 years ago ? Ice Age fuse oceans, lower sea level land bridge from Eurasia N. America in Bering Sea Asian hunters, nomads, cross to Americas sea level rise after Ice Age over isolate Americas

capitalism

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Capitalism- An economic system Caravel- A small Spanish sailing vessel Confederacy- A combination of people for unlawful purposes Conquistador- one of the Spanish conquerors Demographic- social statistic of a human population, as the number of births or deaths Ecosystem- Interaction of people in a community Encomienda- the land or village and its inhabitants Inflation ? Rise in general level of prices Matrilineal- inheriting through the female line Mestizo- a person of racially mixed ancestry Middleman- a person who plays an economic role Nation-State- a group of people who feel they share a common nationality Plantation- a large farm or estate Province- parts of a country outside of the capital Columbus- Italian navigator in Spanish service Pizarro- Spanish conqueror of Peru
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