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History 1301 Exam 1/89 Questions &Solutions
Incas - -A Native American people who built a notable civilization in western
South America, Peru.
-Mayans - -A Mesoamerican civilization of Central America and southern
Mexico.
-Aztecs - -Native American Empire who lived in Mexico. Capital was
Tenochtitlan.
Worshipped nature, and sun.
Cortes conquered them in 1521.
-Mercantilism - -a nationalistic program that assumed that the total of the
world's gold and silver remained essentially fixed, with only a nation;s share
in that wealth subject to change
-Cathay - -an archaic or literary name for China
-Christopher Columbus - -Italian navigator who discovered the New World in
the service of Spain while looking for a route to China, but found the
Bahamas instead (1451-1506)
-Conquistadors - -Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military
expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain
-Requerimento - -a document by the king of spain to the indians saying that
God gave the pope in Rome the authority over all men
-Slavery - -condition of being owned by, and forced to work for, someone
else
-Protestant Reformation - -a religious movement of the 16th century that
began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in
the creation of Protestant churches
-Spanish Armada - -the Spanish fleet that attempted to invade England,
ending in disaster, due to the raging storm in the English Channel as well as
the smaller and better English navy led by Francis Drake. This is viewed as
the decline of Spains Golden Age, and the rise of England as a world naval
power.
, -Jacques Cartier - -French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and
laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)
-Samuel de Champlain - -French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a
settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)
-Quebec - -First permanent French settlement in North America, founded by
Samuel de Champlain
-St. Lawrence River - -area where most New France settlements were
located
-Coueurs de bois - -Who traveled throughout New France to the interior of
North America to engage in the fur trade without permission from the French
-Pere Jacques Marquette - -French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet
in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)
-Sieur de la Salle - -French explorer in North America who claimed Louisiana
for France (1682)
-Louisiana - -It was ceded to Spain in compensation for their losses in the
Seven Years' War
-New Orleans - -Strategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi
-Sir Humphrey Gilbert - -English navigator who in 1583 established in
Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
-Northwest Passage - -a water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
Oceans along the northern coast of North America
-Sir Walter Raleigh - -An English adventurer and writer, who was prominent
at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, and became an explorer of the Americas. In
1585, Raleigh sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke
Island in present-day North Carolina. It failed and is known as " The Lost
Colony."
-Richard Hakluyt - -(28) An English writer that tried to convince the English
in England to relocate to the American colonies
-The Principle Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation
(1589) - -written by Richard Hakluyt to convince Englishmen to come to
America
-Jamestown - -first permanent English settlement in North America
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