Ap Us Chapter 1

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1530 and 1521, explored Florida (thought it was an island) died by an Indian arrow

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Juan Ponce de Leo'n

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explored CA coast in 1542, didn't find much

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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

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went through the strait @ the tip of S. America, slain by Filipinos, one of his ships made it back to Spain (1st circumnavigation of the globe)

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Ferdinand Magellan

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when Spain drove off the N. African Muslim Moors of the Iberian Peninsula

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Reconquista

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"conquerors" in the service of God, fanned out across the Caribbean and into the American continents

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conquistadors

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Columbus returned here in 1493 with 17 ships, 1200 men, cattle, swine, horses. Island in the Caribbean (present day Haiti and the D.R.)

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Hispaniola

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Italian sea-farer, got the Spanish monarchs to give him 3 ships, was looking for a new water route to the Indies but hit the Bahamas, cam back w/ horses on Oct 12th, 1492

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Christopher Columbus

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rounded the southern most tip of Africa (Dark Continent) in 1488

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Bartolomeu Di'as

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home of "Monk's Mound" a Mississippian settlement near present day E. St. Louis, at one time it was home to 25,000 people

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Cahokia

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desert-dwellers of the Southwest, built a pueblo of more than 600 interconnected rooms @ Chaco Canyon in NM, fell into decline by about AD 1300

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Anasazi People

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southern large English landholders w/ plantations along the coast, lorded over slaves and looked down on poor, white farmers

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Anglicans

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Brazil, cannibals, marking on a 16th century European map

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Canibali

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Argentina, Land of Giants, place on a map that 16th century Europeans found remarkable

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Regio Gigantum

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1 in 5 colonists who sided w/ the British

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Loyalists

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imperial rivalry btwn France and Britain and struggle for N. American supremacy. Colonial militias fought w/ British army against the French and Indian enemies

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French and Indian War 1756-1763

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carved tight, pious, and relatively democratic communities of small family farms out of rocky-soiled New England, made "Great Migration" from England to New England 1620-1650

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Puritans

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false concepts saying that conquerors only tortured and butchered Indians for Christ, stole, infected them

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Black Legend

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allowed the gov't to give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to try and Christianize them (slavery)

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Encomienda

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discovered the Aztecs near present day Vera Cruz, had interpreters (Malinche)said he had a disease and the only remedy was gold, Aztecs believed he was the god Quetzalcoatl, attacked June 30th, 1520 on the Noche Triste

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Herna'n Corte's

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French sent explorer down MS River in 1680s

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Robert deLaSalle

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Indians built this ceremonial religious chamber on the ruins of the Spanish Plaza @ Sana Fe

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kiva

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1497-1498, sent from England to explore the Northeastern coast of N. America

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John Cabot

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near present day Vera Cruz, chief Moctezuma, Capital was Tenochti'tlan, floating gardens, drove off Corte's, destroyed by conquest and disease

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Aztecs

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villages of multi-storied terraced buildings

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pueblos

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"traitor", Malincha, Aztec Indian, was the interpreter for Corte's (baptized Don~a Maria)

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Malinchista

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Spanish and Indian offspring, "new race"

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mestizos

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1494, Spain secured its claim to Columbus' discovery and split it with Portugal (Spain got the bigger half)

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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1540-1542, looking for golden cities, went through AZ, NM, and KS, discovered the Grand Canyon and herds of bison

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Francisco Coronado

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finally reached India (around tip of Africa) in 1498, came home w/ some jewels and spices

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Vasco de Gama

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an Italian adventurer returned to Europe in 1295 and told stories of his 20 year trip to China (may not have gone), his book got people interested so they found the New World on accident

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Marco Polo

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created a map of the New World in 1546

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Sebastian Munster

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led Spanish missionaries to San Diego and set up 21 missions, Franciscan Friars converted 3,000 Californians and taught Indians about plants and crafts

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Fr. Junipero Serra

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ironfisted conqueror who crushed Incas of Peru in 1532

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Francisco Pizarro

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Old world Diseases

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smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, scarlet fever

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navtive New World plants

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tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, potatoes

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1770s issues the brought the crisis of Imperial Authority to a head

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taxation, self-rule, trade restrictions

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discovered Pac. Ocean in 1513, claimed 4 the King all shores on the Pac. Ocean

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Vasco Nun~ez Balboa

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1539-1542, FL westward, discovered and crossed MS River, brutally mistreated Indians and died of fever

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Hernando deSoto