Test 1 Essays & Study Guide You will need to know 30 (Matching & True False‚ 2pts each) Mercantilism Reconquista Miles Standish George Whitefield Metacom’s War Edward Braddock Henry Hudson Puritans Roger Williams Hernan Cortez Atahualpa Jacques Cartier Christopher Columbus Powhatans Squanto Elizabeth I James Oglethorpe Maryland Georgia John White John Smith Jamestown St Augustine Roanoke Ponce de Leon Great Awakening Quakers Enlightenment Glorious Revolution
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return to Peru with 185 men at the perfect time because the Incan Empire which occupied Peru at that time had just had a civil war when she lives in Weak and vulnerable. This made it very easy for Pizarro to just walk in and take the Indian leader Atahualpa hostage. Despite being paid the ransom despair the leader’s life‚ they still killed him. Pizarro then Concord Cuzco‚ hey important Inca city‚ and founded the city of Lima. Pizarro was assassinated in 1541 after conflicts with Almagro over his one-time
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mentioned‚ the Buddha‚ the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes who received gifts of gold from the Emperor of the Aztecs‚ Montezuma II‚ whom they imprisoned. Who was followed by another conquistador‚ Francisco Pizzaro who captured the Inca ruler‚ Atahualpa‚ who bargained his freedom in exchange for a room filled with gold and silver‚ he was later put to death after he gave the Spaniards the gold however. A third conquistador followed to search for the legendary golden city of El Dorado‚ he failed to
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and not endure hell. While Columbus and Cortes were converting the Aztecs and Native Americans‚ Francisco Pizarro was tackling the Incas. Pizarro’s men massacred the Incas and the ones that were saved were forced to convert to Christianity after Atahualpa was murdered. Many different explorers all had the same goal‚ convert the natives. As well as forcing Christianity onto the indigenous people‚ they also introduced many new technologies to
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6/14/12 History: a study of the past Civilization: an advanced state of human society‚ in which a high level of culture‚ science‚ industry‚ and government has been reached. Historian: Someone who studies the past Archaeologist: Someone who studies the past by looking at artifacts Fossil: Natural remains Artifact: Man-made remains Anthropologist: Someone who studies the past by looking at the culture of ancient civilizations Paleontologist: Someone who studies the past by looking at fossils
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Thesis statement: Yali posed an important question that involves the relationships of people from all times. The answer is intricate‚ but still unclear. However‚ the link between Pizarro’s easy defeat of the Incas is a clue further into the answer. Yali’s question is an age old inquiry. Yali is inquisitive as to why caucasian people developed so many goods/ cargo and brought them to New Guinea but black people had so little goods themselves. On the surface‚ the question appears simple‚ but is
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Columbus stumbling across America while searching for China. The search for Gold and spread of Christianity caused Europeans to colonize the New World‚ discovering many new lands‚ such as that of the Incas in Peru. We visit Cajamarca‚ where the King Atahualpa was held captive by Pizarro and forced to convert to Christianity. At Amsterdam’s tulip fields‚ we reflect on the first global stock market crash—Tulip-mania. In the 145 years from 1492 to 1637‚ European capitalism was born and spread around the
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Peru Peruvian Culture The Nazca people were the architects of the Awesomeness that is the Nazca lines. The lines are a series of drawings across over 50 miles of the southern Peruvian desert‚ called geoglyphs. They are sort of like hyrogliphs but massive These drawings include the famous monkey‚ spider‚ bird‚ and waving human figure‚ as well as several other smaller lines and drawings. The drawings are huge‚ large enough that they can only be made out vaguely from viewing towers. They are best
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While Spain constructed a massive military‚ Portugal established many settlements on the east coast. In 1519‚ Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztecs by killing Montezuma‚ the Aztec emperor. In 1532‚ Francisco Pizzaro conquered the Incas by killing Atahualpa‚ the Inca emperor. The Incas had such highly centralized government that they could not run without an empire. Because of guns‚ germs‚ and steel‚ Spanish conquistadors were able to conquer the Aztec and Inca empires. The Spanish also had an advantage
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Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand sent Christopher Columbus on an expedition to seek new trade routes to China and the Indies in an ever growing competition to secure wealth amongst the European nations. Under the sponsorship of Spain’s crown‚ Columbus attempted to sail westward and establish a new trade route but was manipulated off course by a severe storm and found himself in lands unknown. We now know the region to be the Americas and the maritime explorer deemed it the New World. Columbus‚ still
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