For Mr.Broun APUSH class, do not copy all of this down or use these notes to cheat. Use these examples to study for upcoming test on thursday 22nd August
Columbian exchange
As soon as columbus started colonizing america, wider trades between america, europe, africa, and asia began
Items included are fruits, vegetables, and diseases.
A sickness that came from america to europe was syphilis
Columbian exchange is a circle shaped trade, triangle trade is triangle shaped
Economienda System
Spanish used Indigenous people as slaves
Only spanish did this, other countries never did this (questionable, might be untrue, other countries mightve done this)
The spanish promised to do 2 things for indigenous (protect, and christianize them. Lies lies LIES except for the christianizing thing, which was forced unto them through missions and residential schools)
Pueblo revolt happens in 1680
How did the columbian exchange both benefit and harm europeans and native americans?
Native americans were heavily harmed by europeans because of the amount of diseases they brought into the americas and their lack of personal hygiene contributing to such, along with this, the later emersion of social darwinism/racism being traded through to north america paid a harder price onto them as it “justified” the abhorrent acts of both the past and the present. Europeans also had syphilis spread onto them in bigger numbers because again, their lack of personal hygiene. The only real benefits they got were vegetables/crops/fruits and other food items being traded between the continents.
Native Americans: Vulnerable
Indigenous peoples were in smaller societies, and for them to see someone who was more “advanced” in technology within them, they were astonished and trustful of europeans as a psychological response.
In north america, there was no concept of land ownership
Disunion between tribes, no strict political structure (north america)
Iroquois are always the exception in these stories
Motives
God
The Three G’s, God, Gold, and Glory, the main motivations for Europeans in exploration
Henry the 8th married 6 wives because he wanted a male heir, however, Catholicism denies divorces, so he left Catholicism and joined the Anglican Church in 1534 making England a Protestant country
Martin Luther created the 95 Theses on October 31, 1517, to complain about the Catholic Church
Gold (The Rise of Nation-States and Mercantilism)
There was a rise of countries, like England, France, and Spain as opposed to kingdoms, and they all wanted wealth in the form of gold from their colonies
Mercantilism is the economic theory of having a finite and fixed form of wealth, knowing that there is competition to gain wealth
Glory
Whoever acquires the most land and influence, is the most glorious in the world
Early Exploration
Usually, the Vikings, and Erikson are typically credited with exploring what is now modern-day Canada in Newfoundland
Marco Polo is a European explorer who published his findings and explorations in Asia and his account is a bunch of nonsense, however, his findings on wealth, spices, and resources like silk in Asia spread so far and this led to many nations wanting to explore in Asia and China.
Portugal had the best explorations and were the cause for West African slave trade in the future
Spanish Empire
Spain was conquered by Muslims in the Middle Ages by the North African Moors. However, centuries later, Isabella and Ferdinand successfully reconquered Southern Spain in 1492 called the Reconquista.
The same year, they hired Columbus to gain more land and wealth for Spain to conquer these islands to bring back resources like silver, and gold to Spain
To be a conquistador, you needed to be a Catholic, and you had to be loyal to the king and queen in Spain.