Mrs. Sherwood
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- Hunter-Gatherer
- killed game and gathered roots and edible plants.
- Lateen sails
- took advantage of wind from any direction
- compass
- allowed saliors to determine direction
- caravel
- ships that were more maneuverable than cargo ships
- astrolabe
- allowed sailors to calculate latitude
- European prospective
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* we helped by converting them to Catholicism
* Columbus was a hero
* we paid them for their labor
* we brought civilization to the people
* Columbus' work benefited the world
* Columbus discovered America - American Indian Prospective
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*we always lived here
*we were slaves
*Columbus's actions led to the destruction of our way of life
*the diseases nearly wiped us out - Aztec
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*warriors
*had a class system
*studied the stars
*some people were rich(precious stones)
*ordinary citizens were workers - Maya
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*Improved the calendar
*number system with zero
*They vanished
*writing with glyphs - Inca
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*The most powerful group
*launched expansion and conquest
*their capitol was Cuzco which they redid
*built complex cities and roads - Olmec
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*lived near gulf of Mexico
*started developing a calender
*called the mother culture
*practiced slash and burn
*built sites with pyramids, mounds& ball courts
*basalt sculptors near San Lorenzo - Beringia
- the land mass that the Paleo- Indians walked across
- Feudalism -Rise
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*Kings relied on the nobles to protect their territory and conduct gov't business
* In return for land protection nobles pledged loyalty and military assistance to the rulers.
*Nobles->Manors->serfs - Feudalism- fall
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New technology- no need for extra man labour
*Trading set up worldy connections
* serfs moved to cities where they could earn wages - Renaissance- cause
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The Crusades set up trading and political reforms
*the sharing of knowledge
*invention of printing press - Renaissance-effect
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*the spread of knowledge and ideas far and wide
*cultural diffusion - Meso-american groups
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Olmec
Maya
Toltec
Aztec - South American group
- Inca
- North american groups
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Anasazi
Adena
Hopewell - Bartholemeu Diaz
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rounded cape good hope
established a route to Indian ocean - Vasco de Gama
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*rounded cape of good hope he landed on West coast of India
*Completed sea route to the coast - Christopher Columbus
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wanted to go to Asia by going west
*found land in the west lead way to new charting of land - Vasco Núñez de Balbosa
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wanted to claim land for Spain
*came across panama he found the south sea - Ferdinand Magellen
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wanted to find a way past the Americas to India
*was the first to circumnavigate the world - Hernan Cortés
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sailed to Mexico wanted gold
*killed off the Aztec
They revolted and made the Spanish leave - Fransisco Pizzaro
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*he conquered the Inca
*broke up native Americas and made them fight each other - John Cabot
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joined search for Asia failed he claimed land for Newfoundland
*he formed the basis for French claims - Frances Drake
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*England fought Spain
*only half the armada returned to Spain - Sir Walter Raleigh
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Explored the Atlantic to go to new lands
*set up colonies Roanoke, but they failed