Before Columbus‚ Scandinavian sailors and European powers‚ including Spain and Portugal‚ conducted early colonization and expeditions in the Americas. Vikings arrived around 1000 AD but couldn’t establish permanent colonies due to hostile environments. The Crusades restored trade and knowledge between Europe and Asia‚ paving the way for the Renaissance and Europe’s growth. European countries‚ like Spain and Portugal‚ sought new trade routes to Asia for economic and religious reasons. Portugal under
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Exploration Explorers in the late 15th‚ 16th‚ nad early 17th centuries began the European phase of American history. Their "discoveries" in the New dispelled rumors of a northwest passage and settled ancient questions of world geography. Contact between Europeans and Native Americans would have a dramatic effect on Europe‚ but a devastating impact on those who were wrongly called "Indians." Christopher Columbus: Spanish explorer who‚ with the backing of Ferdinand V and Isabella I‚ discovered
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AP World: Notes on the Early Modern World Who’s driving? Silver was a newly traded and highly valued item the world had not yet seen in depth. The Spanish and the Dutch had most of the silver‚ but because during this time period it was considered the accepted medium for trade goods‚ nearly all the silver ended up in China. Spain was dominant over Mexico and Peru so it naturally had much silver that put them in a role of power. Japan also claimed a hand in the silver market. Silver and
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stumbled along all this gold in the South American colonies‚ there were already people settled the Native Americans. Philip did not care about these people all he wanted was there riches‚ he obtained these through the document he wrote called the Encomiendas. He states in this document that it is alright that they obtain the Native Americans riches because God said it was okay for him to do so‚ mainly because the Native Americans were not Christian and didn’t believe in the God Philip believed in himself
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Usury is the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest. Enclave is a territory that is culture that surrounds distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it. Encomienda is a grant of land made by spain to a settler in the americans‚ including the right to use native americans as laborers on it. Renaissance is the great time period of rebirth in art‚ literature‚ and learning in the 14th-16th centuries which marked
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Plural Society Plural Society Many of the societies which have problems of multicultural governance are former multi-ethnic colonies. A theory of such colonial and post-colonial societies draws particularly on the work of J.S.Furnivall and M.G.Smith. According to Furnivall different ethnic groups in a plural society meet only in the market place. This market place however lacks the characteristics which Durkheim envisaged in his concept of organic solidarity. It lacks the shared values which organic
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cane productions and trades. In fact‚ sugar cane business had started long before the painting was made. After the conquer of Peru in 1532‚ the Spanish initiated the production and trades of sugar‚ obtaining slave labor through a system called the “Encomienda”. The system assigned a client to demand tributes from and enslave the indigenous people‚ and the “Encomendero” were to convert these people into Christians. Nevertheless‚ the system was abandoned after the Law of 1542‚ which limited the exploitations
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AP U.S History Tenochtitlan ID: The ancient Aztec capital in about the 1325 and was demolished by the Spaniards in 1521. SIG: Tenochtitlan was one of the largest cities in the world in 1521. It was a very wealthy city with powerful economics‚ politics‚ and religions. Matrilineal ID: The inheritance one receives through the female line of ancestors. SIG: The pattern of culture in Lenape or modern day Delaware were fishing and other types of farming which were matrilineal. Many Native American
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Costs for the Benefits The Colombian Exchange’s forward approach included the exchange of new foods‚ animals‚ and resources between Europe‚ the Americas‚ and Africa. However‚ there was an indirect exchange of diseases‚ weapons‚ ideas‚ and people. This process had both positive and negative side effects. The Colombian Exchange resulted in an overall definite benefit compared to its costs. These benefits would include the sugar production‚ a financial silver income‚ the impact of nutritious foods
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The Age of Exploration was a period between the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries in which explorers‚ such as Vasco Da Gama‚ Bartolomeu Dias‚ and Christopher Columbus‚ and several others‚ ventured throughout the seas. They moved westward in search of direct trade routes to India and China. Numerous countries‚ led by Spain and Portugal‚ set sail using various navigational devices. Unintentionally‚ this led to the discovery of the Americas‚ which then sparked the Colombian Exchange. At this same time
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