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Exploration in the Americas
Spain-European Exploration in Americas (Slavery, Philip II, etc.)
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History
9th Grade
11/27/2007

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What is the Aztec capital?
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Tenochtitlan
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Who went to Tenochtitlan?
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Cortez
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Who was the Aztec leader at the time of Cortez?
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Montezuma
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Who did the Aztecs believe Cortez was?
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Quetzalcoatl
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What makes Cortez decide to stay with the Aztecs?
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All the gold
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What were the Spaniards' advantages?
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Horses, light artillery, steel swords and armor, and Dona Marina
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What was the Spaniards' #1 advantage and why?
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Dona Marina, learned to speak Spanish quickly and directed Cortez towards tribes who disliked the Aztecs
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Who did Cortez take prisoner?
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Montezuma
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Where and who did Pizarro conquer?
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Peru, Incas
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Who was the Incan ruler at Pizarro's time?
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Atahualpa
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How could Pizarro take over the Incas so easily?
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He ambushed them and the king when they were unarmed
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What did Atahualpa offer as ransom when he was captured by Pizarro?
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Room filled with gold and silver
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What happened to Atahualpa?
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Strangled by Pizarro
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Who was Ponce de Leon?
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Governor of Puerto Rico
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Define abdicate
Definition
To relinquish formally
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Define abeyance
Definition
Temporary suspension
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Define abscond
Definition
To leave quickly and secretly and to hide oneself, often to avoid arrest
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Define accede
Definition
to give one's consent
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Define accessory
Definition
A subordinate item or supplementary item
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Define accost
Definition
to confront bodly or aggressively
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Define acquisition
Definition
Something that is gained
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Define acrimonious
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Bitter and sharp in language
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Define adjudge
Definition
to order judicially or to award by law
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Define adjure
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to command solemnly as under oath
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What was Ponce de Leon looking for?
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Fountain of youth
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Where did Ponce de Leon land?
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St. Augustine
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Full of flowers
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Florida
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Cabeza de Vaca, Estevanico
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Tampa Bay, captured by natives in Galveston, Texas
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De Soto
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Explored Mississippi, looking for gold cities, earned hatred of natives
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Coronado
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Kansas, golden city reports, found adobe houses in Zuni, Mexico
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Valdivia and Suarez
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Santiago, Chile, conquered Chile
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Spain's territory by 1500
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Kansas to Chile
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Viceroy
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ROyal agents who governed Spain's territory, must not be born in Americas
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Location of each viceroy
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Mexico City=North American viceroy
Peru=South American viceroy
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Encomienda
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Granted by Council of Indies. System where person was given land to be master of, forced natives to work in mines and were treated like slaves
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Philip II's father
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Charles V Holy Roman Emperor
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Philip II's religion
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Catholicism
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Philip II ruled...
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Spain, Milan, Franch-Comte, Naples, Netherlands, and Portugal in 1580
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Philip II's colonies
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East Indies, Africa, India, and Americas
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Escorial
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Philip II's palace. Nerve center of empire, also monastery, symbol of desire to strengthen kingdom and Catholicism
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Spain's rivals
Definition
Ottoman Turks and Protestants
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Spain and the Ottomans
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Spanish+Venetian forces defeated Ottoman navy at Battle of Lepanto
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Spain and Protestants
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First Philip got rid of Protestantism in own lands, then attack or weakened Protestant kings in Europe.
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Spain's biggest Protestant foes
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Netherlands+Queen Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I and Spain
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Philip 1st married Mary Tudor, then wanted to marry Elizabeth. Elizabeth refused and aided Dutch rebels and told sea captains to raid any Spanish ship they saw
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Spain and arts (under Philip II)
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El Greco
Valazquez
Cervantes
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El Greco
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Greek, painted Catholic saints and martyrs
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Valazquez
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Painted Spanish monarch portraits
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Cervantes
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Wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha-satire of chivalry, fought at Lepanto, jailed for debt, tax collector
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After Philip's death
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Weak kings, Spain suffered inflation (from too much gold/silver), debt to foreign countries, and imported more then they exported
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Atlantic Slave Trade
Definition
Buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
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Triangular Trade
Definition
Transatlantic trading network. Europe sent manufactured goods to west Africa, goods exchanged for Africans which were then sent to West Indies. Then merchants bought sugar/coffee/tobacco and went back to Europe to sell them
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Middle Passage
Definition
Voyage that brought captured Africans to West Indies and later North and South America
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COnsequences of slave trade in Africa
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Decrease in population, Famlies torn apart, introduced guns which spread war
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Consequences of slave trade in Americas
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Survival of colonies such as Barbados and Haiti. New and improved agriculture. African-American population from U.S. to Brazil
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Differences between Muslim and American slavery
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Muslims=slavery based on war, slaves paid, could rise in society, marry out of slavery, children were not slaves
Americas=Slaves treated horribly, beaten and whipped, slavery based on race, slaves not paid, slavery hereditary, could not become free or move up in society/own property
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Columbian Exchange
Definition
Global transfer of food, plants, and animals during colonization of Americas
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Commercial Revolution
Definition
Practices of a wave of new business and trade in Europe during 16th-17th centuries
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Capitalism
Definition
Economic system based on private ownership and the investment of wealth for profit
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