Study guide test #1 1. How did the "first Americans" get here and what account for the diversity of their cultures? How and why did Native-American concepts of land usage differ from that of Europeans? What were the motivations that first brought Spanish explorers to the New World? What were they looking for? Which nations had the most success in creating a profitable New World empire prior to the 1600’s? How and why? Understand England’s failures in trying to get into the colony business. In regards
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Analysis of the factors for success and subsequent decline of Portugal‚ Spain and the Netherlands on the world trade arena in 1500-1650 1. Introduction The period of 1500-1650 had a crucial impact on the world trade‚ thus influencing the global economic and political balance. Though the volumes of intra-continental trade in the first half of 16th century were much higher than those of spice and slave movement between the continents‚ it is obvious that the emergence of the global trade was an event
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Monotheistic Characterized by the belief that there is only on God Prophet One who is appointed by God to convey a divine message Quran The sacred book of Islam: the word of God revealed to the Prophet. Revelation God’s disclosure of himself and his will to his people Allah The Arabic word for the one and only God Bedouin Arab desert nomad Ka’ba Cube-shaped religious shrine believed to have been erected by Adam and then rebuilt by Abraham. Today it is the central
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A Brief History of Catalonian Nationalism and Autonomy The Catalonian people can trace their heritage to Charlemagne’s invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in the ninth century‚ commonly referred to as the Reconquista‚ which expelled the Muslim Moors who had conquered Iberia in 788 AD. A Feudal system was established with the ruling entity being the Count of Barcelona. The union with the neighboring Kingdom of Aragon in 1137 recognized their distinctly separate political identities including their
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1. How did the Indian societies of South and North America differ from European societies at the time the two came into contact? In what ways did Indians retain a “world view” different from that of the Europeans? An obvious distinction between the two civilizations is the Indians lacked weapons‚ tools‚ or sciences comparable to that of the Europeans. The Native Americans also existed in small‚ loose groups that lacked unity‚ while the Europeans were able to establish cities and alliances; another
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the caliphate fragmented into many smaller principalities. • The Almoravids and Almohads of North Africa invaded Spain in the 11th century to enforce strict Muslim rule. • The mercenary adventures of El Cid during the reconquest or reconquista made him Spain’s national hero. • In
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My Essay is a discussion of the causes for the Age of Discovery‚ and the early colonization of the Americas‚ the Age of Discovery occurred in Europe‚ in the mid 15th to 16th centuries‚ and describes the time period in which Europe; predominantly Spain; set out to discover a new safe passage to the Indies‚ and Asia. The impetus for the discovery was the continued unrest in the Middle East after the Crusaders had returned to Europe. I will discuss how these events influenced the discovery of the Americas
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CHAPTER 15 EUROPE TO THE EARLY 1500S: REVIVAL‚ DECLINE‚ AND RENAISSANCE (HIGH MEDIEVAL EUROPE AND THE EARLY RENAISSANCE) TERMS AND LECTURE I. GENERAL A. Read “Global Perspective.” B. Write and know Review Questions 1‚2‚6‚7‚8‚ and 9. C. Know this Lecture for the Final. D. Text High Middle Ages = My Medieval Sacred State; 1000-1300 What the text calls the “High Middle Ages” I call the “Medieval Sacred State.” Pay attention to the dates‚ c.1000-1300 AD. During this time‚ we find
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What did nations do in order to become even more powerful? They colonized. Such was the case during the 15th to 17th centuries. An emerging Spain partook on a conquest to seize the world by imposition of their beliefs and lifestyles to different tribes. The film La Otra Conquista features the effects of this cultural imposition on the Aztec civilization and how colonialism was able to shape them into the people that they are today. Before continuing on‚ it is worth to note that there are certain
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Chapter 21 A. The Toltec and the Mexica 1. Toltecs emerge in the ninth and tenth centuries after the collapse of Teotihuacan a. Established large state‚ powerful army mid-tenth to the mid-twelfth century b. Tula was the Toltec capital city and center of trade c. Maintained close relations with societies of the Gulf coast and the Maya 2. Toltec decline after twelfth century d. Civil strife at Tula‚ beginning in 1125
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