Zusammenfassung der Ressource
APUSH Period
1 (1491-1607)
- Central and South American Cultures
- Aztec
- Located in
Mexico
- Corn
- Cortés conquers
- Inca
- Located in Peru
- Potatoes
- Pizarro conquers
- Maya
- Located in
Yucátan
peninsula
- Declined before
Aztecs (1st culture)
- Corn
- Gender Roles
- Men hunt and
make tools
- Women gather
plants & nuts,
and grow crops
- Native Languages
- 20 language
families w/400
distinct
languages
- Southwest Settlements
- Four corners of
U.S.
- Pueblos and
Anasazi
- Cliff dwellings
- Northeast Settlements
- Ohio Valley to NY
- Iroquois Confederation
- Mohawk Valley
- Rival natives & Europeans
- Tech
- China- Gunpowder
- Arabs- compass
- Spanish
Monarchy
- 1469- Ferdinand
and Isabella
- Conquer Moorish
(Islamic) invaders'
communities
- Eventually fund
Columbus'
voyages
- 1492- Lands in Bahamas
- doesn't find gold, spices or
new route
- Columbian Exchange
- Exchange of resources,
foods, ideas and diseases
(smallpox)
- Exploration through conquistadorés
- New Routes
- 1453- Main trade area
Constantinople captured by
Ottoman turks
- Portugal's Prince Henry opens
new route
- 1498- Vasca de Gama reaches India
- Slavery
- 1400's- Portuguese import
slaves from West Africa
- Some run away/revolt
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- 1493/1494- Spanish pope
divides land of Portugal b/t
Spain and Portugal
- Early 1600's settlements- North America
- English send John Cabot-
explores New Foundland
in 1497
- Sir Francis Drake (pirate) attacks
Spanish ships for silver/gold
- 1587- Walter Raleigh
attempts failed Roanoke
colony
- French
- Verrazano sent to New York Harbor by french monarchy
- Jaques Cartier explores St.
Lawrence River
- 1608- Champlain founds Quebec
- 1682- de La Salle explores along
Mississippi river, names land
Louisiana for French king
- Dutch
- New
Amsterdam/New
York
- Dutch west India
Co. controls land
(corporation
control)
- Spanish
- Florida- St.
Augustine (1565)
- New Mexico- Santa Fe (1610)
- Texas (early 1700's)
- California-
Cabrillo in San
Diego (late 1700's)
- Treatment of Native Americans
- Spanish
- Killed and
enslaved most of
population and
had class system
w/Spaniards on
top
- De Las Casas condemns this
- Ends
encomienda
system
- English
- Marriages
w/natives
- Coexisted until no
respect and English
force them out of
land
- French
- trade/war allies