APUSH Unit 1

Prince Henry

________ the Navigator- works for Portugal, wants to use Atlantic Ocean, goes around Africa.

Ferdinand

________ and Isabella, monarchs of Spain, issue Requerimiento- pope granted Spanish monarchs to convert whoever was found in the Americas.

Sepulveda

________- argues that Natives are less than human, benefit from the labor.

Big Idea

________- Natives of American continents were a diverse people that had diverse societies based on the environments they lived in.

Pantheists Animists

________- Believe in natural world filled with spirits.

Hernan Cortes

________ shows up at Tenochtitlan with only around 1000 men, were 200- 400 thousand Natives.

Mercantilism

________- Depends on heavy government intervention.

Political Unification

________- centralized governments led by monarchs.

Europe

________ was mainly defined by Feudalism, work for nobles for protection.

Criollos

________- Spanish, but born in Americas.

Minerals

________- Spanish plunder the Native American tribes for silver and gold, transforms their wealth- makes them really rich.

Joint Stock Companies

________- new model of funding, limited liability organization in which a plurality of investors pool their money to fund a venture Labor Systems /Societal Restructuring in Americas.

Peninsulares

________- Spanish and born in Spain.

Hispanola

________- Arawak and Taino People lost 300, 000 people.

Encomienda System

________- Encomenderos (leading men) granted land, all natives that lived there are labor force, justified on religious grounds.

Spanish

________ make a caste system so that they can tax people at the bottom more.