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Chapter 3
Chapter 3
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09/14/2011

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What did colombus discover?
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the way back to europe
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what were the significant technical/technological advances that facilitated exploration and navigation in the early european alliance?
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Technical- ships had better design
Technological-Compass was a great way of having location
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What was the marriage of shipbuilding technology that could have occurred in Iberia?
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The technological idea if shipping through the harsh atlantic
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in what ways were the colombian voyages the result of a drive to attack muslims in north africa?
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they were trying to spread christianity
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in what ways were the colombian voyages the result of a drive to attack muslims in north africa?
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they were trying to spread christianity
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what were the origins of this first european model of conquest and exploitation?
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weaken islam by direct assault
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what were the particular skills and abilities of the peoples of both Guinea and West Central Africa that appealed to the Europeans who forced them into slavery?
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they could perform heavy manuel labor in the hot climate; adaptation to tropical climates and envrionments
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One of the most persistent justifications offered by European for their trade in humans from africa was the argument that the africans enslaved themselves, and that the Europeans were only consumers of people who had already been made commodities by events internal to african societies. According to bakewell what makes this argument true?
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they were going to be slaves anyways do it made no difference when the Europeans came to enslave them
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The atlantic slave trade was of course a business. what was exchanged and how did the trade work?
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Cowrie shells were used as money but there was also clothing, mirrors, beads, needles and alcohol. The trade was like an auction.
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Spain lagged far behind Portugal in the exploration and exploitation of the atlantic and why?
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they lagged interest and were drawn back by the south
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Who was Jean de Bethancourt and what was the long-term significance for Castile of what he did in the Canaries at the turn of the 15th century?
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he was the nephew of the French ambassador of Castile; he managed to take and settle some of the lesser islands by the atlantic
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What important precendants were set by the treaty of alcacovas?
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it ended the war that lasteed 4 years
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what is audencia? how did it serve Isabella's purpose?
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audencia was where trials were heard

It served her purpose by giving Spain internal peace and order.
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How did the Catholic Monarchs accomplish the time that ended in which nobles made and unmade kings in Castile?
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it was done by the spreading of the purification of the Spanish faith
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Why does it make good sense that the fall of Granada and Columbus's Atlantic voyage both occurred simultaneously?
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Columbus succeeded in in getting support for his own proposed westward expansion
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