apush period 1 flashcards

period 1:

Diverse Native Communities:

• Pueblo People

• Great Basin & Plains

• Plateu

• Iroquois People

• Mississippi River Valley

• Maize

Europeans

• 1. Portgual 2. Spain

• sought sea-based trading, trading post empire

• maritime tech: astrolabe, astronomical charts, ship designs, latin sail, stern post rudder

• spanish reconquesta led 2 desire of spreading christianity

• christopher columbus - sought sponsorship 2 sail west, sailed in 1492 landed in san salvador

• led to competition between european nations

• columbian exchange - transfer of ppl, animals, diseases, crops

• feudalism —> capitalism (economic system based on private ownership & free exchange)

• rise of joint-stock companies

• encomienda system - colonial labor system (spanish enslaved natives 2 farm & mine in americas)

• natives were not subservient, died in large numbers due 2 disease

• casa system: social hierarchy based on race

• influential ppl: sepulveda, de las casas