Before any Europeans “discovered” the New World‚ there was already an abundance of people living on the land‚ carrying on mostly peaceful existences. These people were what we know as Native Americans. Their lives were abruptly intruded when European explorers first set foot on their homelands. The Europeans that made contact with these people included the Spanish‚ the English‚ and the French. Each one of these groups had a different kind of relationship with these native people. The best and least
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Vasco Nunez Balboa‚ said all lands washed by that sea belonged to his king • Ferdinand Magellan took a journey in 1519 from Spain‚ was killed in the Philippines but his ship made it back in 1522 being the first to travel around the globe • Encomienda allowed the government to give Indians to colonists that will Christianize them IX. The Conquest of Mexico • 1519 – Hernan Cortes set sail for Mexico • Saved a Spanish castaway and picked up and Indian female slave • Looking for
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t AP World History: 1s Semester Review Byzantium: Chapter 12 a. Explain how the “Theme System” worked. Describe the key parts. Placed an imperial province under jurisdiction of a general. general managed defenses and land was available for the people Emperor places the province under the jurisdiction of a general. b. Describe “Iconoclasm” and why Emperor Leo III supported it. destruction of icons . Emperor Leo III Veneration of these religious images was sinful Wh
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THE COMING OF THE SPANIARDS Rediscovery And Colonization Of The Philippines * Little is known of the Philippines by the Europeans prior to the 16th century. Ferdinand Magellan claimed the Philippines for Spain in 1521‚ and for the next 333 years‚ the country was subjected to Spanish rule. This period was an era of conversion to Roman Catholicism. * A Spanish colonial social system was developed‚ complete with a strong centralized government and considerable clerical influence Prelude
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Between the 1450‚ and 1550‚ as the Europeans infiltrated and dominated the Americas‚ this revolutionizing contact altered “the way of life” for the Native Americans. The Spanish empire imbibed the Native American culture and took them under their rule due to the Spaniards advanced weapons and technologies which overpowered the simple defense systems of the Americans. Although the Spaniards opened the American’s eyes to the potential of their lands‚ the Americans were put under slave trade and were
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The Spanish government in fact created a settlement system known as the encomienda in which large grants of land were dispersed together with the right to enslave and work the Indians within the territory. This obviously created tension between the natives and the Spanish which later then caused the killings of millions of Indians
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With the innovations and advances of compass and ship designs of the Chinese Empire‚ martine exploration became possible. The technologies spread across Europe‚ and having accelerating mapmaking skills‚ navigation‚ sailing knowledge‚ and ship design gave the Europeans the advantage to rediscovering the New World in 1492 (619). European powers such as the Spanish and English were able to eventually establish colonies in the New World‚ although at different times‚ the Spanish being the first of all
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During the building of American society‚ the nation overcame a plethora of events which ultimately led to the astonishingly new ways of thinking in America. Conflicts are not uncommon for the American nation. Natives‚ mother country‚ neighboring colonists‚ anything a person can think of‚ happened in the new nation of America. Following those conflicts‚ however‚ came compromises that helped shape the American nation that stands today. At the start of contact with the New World‚ explorers come to find
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Although they were not the first Europeans in the Philippines‚ the first well documented arrival of western Europeans in the archipelago was the Spanish expedition led by Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan‚ which first sighted the mountains of Samar at dawn on 16 March 1521 (Spanish calendar)‚ making landfall the following day at the small‚ uninhabited island of Homonhon at the mouth of the Leyte Gulf.[1] Magellan had abandoned his Portuguese citizenship and became a Spanish subject prior to his contract
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civilizations using the system of the mit’a‚ which was used by the Span. This system made over one-seventh of its adult males work for two to four months each year in unfathomable working conditions. Another important form of forced labor included the encomienda‚ which was enforced by Spanish colonies onto the Amerindians. This concept required Amerindians to work in groups on different tasks such as food production‚ textiles‚ other goods‚ and granted the right to extract labor and tribute goods to the
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