• MUST INCLUDE WHEN‚ WHERE‚ WHO/WHAT AND SIGNIFICANCE • *These are arranged chronologically according to lecture notes TRIANGLE TRADE When: 18th century‚ period of Enlightenment Where: Atlantic Ocean‚ Britain‚ Africa and Americas Who/What: Triangle Trade was a system of slave trade in which ships took manufactured goods from Britain‚ brought them to Africa where they traded them for slaves‚ traveled to the Americas to trade the slaves for raw materials and took such materials back to Britain
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Native American Literature Over the years Native American tribes have all had their own creation myths‚ a few of these tribes are the Iroquois‚ the Okanogan‚ and the Karankawa. The stories that these people created were used by parents to tell children the places they come from‚ or why they live their life the way that they do. These stories include “The World on the Turtle’s Back”‚ and the story of the “Coyote and the Buffalo”. These stories were told by the Iroquois and the Okanogan. The Iroquois
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Mayan‚ Aztec‚ and Inca Civilizations Essay Prompt and Passages Write an informative essay that discusses why the societies in the following articles were influential in both the past and the present. Include evidence from what you have read. Manage your time carefully so that you can: ● Read the passages ● Plan your essay ● Write your essay ● Revise and edit your essay Your written response should be in the form of a multiparagraph essay. Remember to spend time reading
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In 1511‚ the word spread to Spain that there was undiscovered land northwest of Puerto Rico. This interested King Ferdinand and rewarded Ponce de Leon for all of his services by getting the chance to go and discover new land for Spain. This land was referred to by natives of Puerto Rico as “Benimy”. As said in David Marley’s book (2008)‚ “Wars of the Americas: A chronology of armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere‚ 1492 to the present”‚ “Ponce de León readily agreed to a new venture‚ and in February
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European influence in the Americas commenced in the late fifteenth century‚ when Christopher Columbus set sail for the Indies.However‚ he discovered a "new world"‚ the Americas. This phenomenal breakthrough would forever change the complextion of the world. European prominence in the Americas can be viewed as a catastophe. These newcomers exploited gold and silver from the native americans. A more severe consequence to the native americans was the exposure to "old world" diseases such as smallpox
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between the Aztecs and Spanish. It started when Cortés and Montezuma were on the causeway giving gifts to each other. And because Montezuma was a naive leader‚ Cortes bribed him. Later the Spanish conquistadors and allies attacked every other Aztec city by a siege. Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors wanted to gain Montezuma’s trust so that they could get the land‚ power‚ wealth‚ spread the religion/beliefs and the language. They also wanted a hierarchy. The Spanish conquest of Mexico was very
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parallel stories: about love‚ death‚ spirituality‚ and the fragility of existence‚ as told through The Odyssey taken on by one man in his thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves. Tommy’s epic journey begins in 16th-century Spain‚ where‚ as conquistador Tomas Creo‚ he commences his search for the “Tree of Life‚” the legendary entity believed to grant eternal life to those who drink of its sap. As modern-day
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The Spanish had two goals in mind during Indian assimilation. On one side‚ they had secular conquistadors who wanted the Indians to work to death and‚ on the other‚ they had priests working to convert the Indians. This even extended to the prisoners set for execution‚ such as Hatuey who “was tied to the stake‚ [when] a Franciscan friar who was present
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Siani Bland AP US History Summer Reading Assignment Assignment: Complete the selected readings and submit a written essay. Essay Choice #3 Using Chapters 1&2 of Liberty‚ equality and power‚ compare and contrast the British‚ French‚ and Spanish imperial goals in North America between 1580 and 1763. British Imperial Goals in North America between 1580 and 1763 In 1580 Francis Drake completed his second circumnavigation
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beliefs as dictated by the devil and considered their shamans to be witches‚ possessed of an evil power to inflict harm on other Indians but not on European Christians.” Therefore‚ the notion of the Native People being heathens‚ leads the European conquistadors to consider them on the lower rung of this Great Chain of Being. In his Journal of the First Voyage‚ Christopher Columbus notes about the Natives he first encounters‚ “they should be good servants and intelligent‚ for I observed that they quickly
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