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Aztecs
Central America
Maya
Yucatan peninsula with temples
inca
Andes mountains/Peru
Maize
A corn like crop that supported economic development and socialization
Pueblo people
Sedentary population that build with adobe into cliffs
Nomads
Hunter gatherers in the plains/great basin
Chinook and chumash
Elk and fishing in the north west
Reasons for exploration
Population increase
Political unification
Desire for luxury goods
Land based trad routes in asai
Largely controlled by muslims in the 1400 and 1500
Prince henry the navigator
established a trading post empire around the india, africa, and asia
Caravels
nimble cargo ships use solely for trade
Astrolabe
use to navigate the stars at night for trading
Stern post rudder
rudder used to control boats by hand
Isabella & ferdinand
reunited spain and established trading posts in africa, india, and asai to spread christianity
Christopher Columbus
went to isabella and Ferdinand to secure funding to find a route to asia and prove the earth is round (ended up in san salvador)
Colombian exchange
The transfer of food, animals, minerals, people, and diseases between Africa, Europe, and the Americas
Feudalism
A system where peasants worked on the land of a nobel in exchange for protection
Capitalism
An economic system based on private ownership
Spanish
The first to start exploring the new world funded by the state and gold from the new land
Mercantilism
It depends on heavy government intervention and direction
Encomienda System
A system in which encounters were gifted a piece of land in which all natives on the land became their slaves
Requerimiento
Granted spanish monarchs to claim land in the new world in an effort to convert them to christianity
Caste system
Tax brackets organized by race and ancestry
hegemony
the domination of one racial group by another racial group
Mission system
conquering land with religion instead of soldiers
Pueblo revolt
1610, blamed the attacks from other native tribes on the spanish invasion of religion (burned churches and killed 50k)
Caroline de las casas
If spain kept killing people their souls would be lost to god
