Spanish empire Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

APUSH Review Activity #6 College Board Concept Outline Period 6: 1865 to 1898 Directions: The Concept Outline below presents the required concepts and topics that students need to understand for the APUSH test. The statements in the outline focus on large-scale historical processes and major developments. Our course has focused on specific and significant historical evidence from the past that illustrate each of these developments and processes. Complete each table on the outline below by ...

1.2 - First Encounters correct answers Exchange & Interaction: correct answers Maize correct answersSignificant food source in present-day Mexico and the southwest US Horses correct answersAfter the introduction of livestock by Columbus in 1493, horses spread throughout the country as far as Canada in less than two centuries. Indians like the Apaches, Sioux, and Blackfoot adopted the horse and became mobilized, hunting societies that fed off of buffalo in the Great Plains. Disease co...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 1-3 Latest Update Rated A+ corn The Mayas and the Incas cultivated corn as an important stable food supply. (p. 2) horses It was not until the 17th century that the American Indians acquired these animals from the Spanish. (p. 4) disease When Europeans came to America they brought smallpox and measles to which the natives had no resistance. Millions of American Indians died from these diseases. (p. 8) encomienda system King of Spain gave grants of land and natives ...

Absolute Monarch correct answers A king or queen with complete control over their country Age of absolutism correct answers 250 year period where many absolute monarch rose and fell Absolutism correct answers The ideology of an absolute monarchy: strong central gov't, strong military, using mercantilism Hapsburg monarchy correct answers Europe's most powerful dynasty: Spain, Portugal, HRE and American lands Charles V correct answers Hapsburg ruler: ruled the greatest amount of land...

Amsco APUSH Vocab 100% Correct Asiento System Required the Spanish to pay tax for every slaves they imported to the Americas. Plymouth A town of southeast Massachusetts on Plymouth Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Boston. Founded in 1620 by Pilgrims, who supposedly set foot on Plymouth Rock when disembarking from the Mayflower, it was the center of Plymouth Colony. The colony was governed under precepts laid down in the Mayflower Compact until 1691, when it was absorbed by the ...

New Mexico History Chapter 3 100% Correct Conquistador A Spanish conqueror of the Americas Encomienda A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it epidemic A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease. Small pox virus Disease that killed many Natives brought to the Americas by the Europeans. tribute (n.) something done or given to show thanks or respect; a payment Christopher Columbus He mistaken...

Great Columbian / Biological Exchange - Exchange of plants and animals between the New World and Europe following the discovery of America in 1492. Christopher Columbus - Italian explorer, sailed from Spain in 1492 and reached Americas, greatly increased European awareness of the North American Continent Bartolomeo de las Casas - 16th Century Spanish Historian, Dominican Friar, "Protector of the Indians;" opposed atrocities by colonizers on Indigenous people Spanish empire - Empire contr...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 4Primogeniture Laws - correct answers English laws that only led eldest sons inherit land, leading younger sons to search for money via things like joint-stock companies. Omani-European Rivalry - correct answers Portuguese vs the Omani over the Muslim controlled Indian ocean trade Cartography - correct answers The science of making maps Astronomical Chart - correct answers a guide to the stars to help navigation Maritime Empires - correct answers e...

Haussmann 1301 Final Exam Review Rated A+ Prince Henry "The Navigator" Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres, also directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugals colonial empire Constitutional Convention Philadelphia 1787 The meeting of state delegates in 1787 that was called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution Brazil The only colony in the western hemisp...

The social organization of African societies included - Answer-kings and noblemen at the top, a great mass of people who worked as farmers, urban craftsmen who supported the elites Native Americans encountered by Europeans practiced a form of religion known as - Answer-polytheism The results of creating a more cohesive political confederacy for the Iroquois included - Answerincreasing village stability To Europeans, "China" was known as - Answer-Cathay What activities did women perform in...