1. Marco Polo
He is an Italian adventurer who returned to Europe in 1295 after a 20 year journey to what is thought to be China. He stimulated European desires for a cheaper route to the treasures of the East (11).
2. Montezuma
(Moctezuma) is the leader of the Aztecs in their capital Tenochtitlán, but lost to Hernán Cortés on August 13, 1521 (20-21).
3. Christopher Columbus
Is a skilled Italian seafarer who persuaded the Spanish monarchs to give him three small ships (La Pinta, La Niña & La Santa Maria), with a diverse crew. They did not find anything for six weeks, until on October 12, 1492 when the crew saw an island in the Bahamas. And the new world was discovered. The named the people Indians because he thought he was in the Indies.
4. Treaty …show more content…
The Americas got wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, and slave labor. The negative effects are Europe got syphilis. The Americas got smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, and scarlet fever.
16. Were the conquistadors’ motives successfully fulfilled? Explain.
Most conquistadors never achieved their dreams of glory. Few received titles of nobility, and many of the rank and files remained permanently obligated to the absentee investors who paid for their equipment. Even when an expedition got many goods, the riches were unevenly divided: men from the commander’s home region often received more, and men on horseback generally got two shares to the infantryman’s one.
17. Why was Cortes able to defeat the powerful Aztecs?
He had 11 ships with several hundred men and 16 horses. He had two interpreters, a Spanish castaway who had been enslaved by Mayan-speaking Indians and a female Indian slave Malinche who spoke Mayan and Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec rulers. He used his interpreters to learn of unrest in the Aztec empire and heard that Tenochtitlan had gold and other wealth. He burned his ships to keep his mutinous troops in line and made allies with twenty thousand Indian allies, and together they went toward …show more content…
What was the status of England as it began colonization?
England’s status was “a strong unified national state under a popular monarch; a measure of religious unity after a protracted struggle between Protestants and Catholics; and a vibrant sense of nationalism and national density.”
3. How were the first permanent English settlement financed?
In 1606, the joint stock company of the name of the Virginia Company of London received a charter from King James I of England for a settlement in America. It funded the first settlement known as Jamestown.
4. How were Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia similar? Different?
They were similar because they were plantation and slave colonies and they were all founded in the south. Their differences were that Virginia was the first colony and it was a Royal state. It was also created for profit. Maryland had the perfect land for tobacco, like Virginia. The Carolinas were founded for profit to support the English West Indies by growing food. Georgia was created only to be a buffer between the colonies and Spain.
5. Why was it important that all English settlers in the New World retained the rights of
He is an Italian adventurer who returned to Europe in 1295 after a 20 year journey to what is thought to be China. He stimulated European desires for a cheaper route to the treasures of the East (11).
2. Montezuma
(Moctezuma) is the leader of the Aztecs in their capital Tenochtitlán, but lost to Hernán Cortés on August 13, 1521 (20-21).
3. Christopher Columbus
Is a skilled Italian seafarer who persuaded the Spanish monarchs to give him three small ships (La Pinta, La Niña & La Santa Maria), with a diverse crew. They did not find anything for six weeks, until on October 12, 1492 when the crew saw an island in the Bahamas. And the new world was discovered. The named the people Indians because he thought he was in the Indies.
4. Treaty …show more content…
The Americas got wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, and slave labor. The negative effects are Europe got syphilis. The Americas got smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, and scarlet fever.
16. Were the conquistadors’ motives successfully fulfilled? Explain.
Most conquistadors never achieved their dreams of glory. Few received titles of nobility, and many of the rank and files remained permanently obligated to the absentee investors who paid for their equipment. Even when an expedition got many goods, the riches were unevenly divided: men from the commander’s home region often received more, and men on horseback generally got two shares to the infantryman’s one.
17. Why was Cortes able to defeat the powerful Aztecs?
He had 11 ships with several hundred men and 16 horses. He had two interpreters, a Spanish castaway who had been enslaved by Mayan-speaking Indians and a female Indian slave Malinche who spoke Mayan and Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec rulers. He used his interpreters to learn of unrest in the Aztec empire and heard that Tenochtitlan had gold and other wealth. He burned his ships to keep his mutinous troops in line and made allies with twenty thousand Indian allies, and together they went toward …show more content…
What was the status of England as it began colonization?
England’s status was “a strong unified national state under a popular monarch; a measure of religious unity after a protracted struggle between Protestants and Catholics; and a vibrant sense of nationalism and national density.”
3. How were the first permanent English settlement financed?
In 1606, the joint stock company of the name of the Virginia Company of London received a charter from King James I of England for a settlement in America. It funded the first settlement known as Jamestown.
4. How were Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia similar? Different?
They were similar because they were plantation and slave colonies and they were all founded in the south. Their differences were that Virginia was the first colony and it was a Royal state. It was also created for profit. Maryland had the perfect land for tobacco, like Virginia. The Carolinas were founded for profit to support the English West Indies by growing food. Georgia was created only to be a buffer between the colonies and Spain.
5. Why was it important that all English settlers in the New World retained the rights of