Study Guide 4

What was Columbus' objective in conquering Hispaniola?

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According to Zinn, which conquerors was responsible for the wholesale killing of the indigenous people they encountered?

1. Columbus conquest the Arawaks of the Bahamas 2. Cortes conquest the Aztecs of Mexico 3. Pizarro conquest the Incas of Peru 4. English settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts conquest of the Powhatans and the Pequots

According to Zinn, who conquered the Aztecs?

Cortes

According to Zinn, his book will be skeptical of which of the following?

Governments and their attempts, throughout politics and culture, to help ordinary people in a giant web of nationhood pretending to a common interest

According to Zinn, " The treatment of heroes (Columbus) and their victims (the Arawaks)- the quiet acceptance of conquest and murder in the name of progress- is only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of...

Governments, conquerors, diplomats, and leaders

According to Zinn, who said "History is the memory of the states?"

Henry Kissinger

According to Zinn, " the historian's distortion is more than technical, it is idealogical; it is released into a world of contending interests, where any chosen emphases supports " whether the historian means to or not) some kind of interests, whether economic or political or racial or national or sexual." Zinn was referring to which of ?

Historian Morison's emphasis of Columbus' heroism and his successors as navigators and explorers while deemphasizing their genocide

According to Zinn, in which society were women important and respected and families were matrilineal?

Iroquois

According to Zinn, when the Pilgrims came to New England they too were coming not to vacant and but to territory inhabit by tribes of Indians. The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, ________, created the excuse to take Indian land by declaring the area legally a "vacuum."

John Wintrhop

According to Zinn, The Aztec civilization of Mexico came out of the heritage of which culture?

Mayan, Zapotec, and Toltec

In the villages of the ______, land was owned in common and worked in common.

The Iroqouis

Bartolome de las Casas was

a priest who transcribed Columbus' journal and detailed his atrocities against the natives

According to Zinn, behind the English invasion of North American, behind their massacre of Indians, their deception, their brutality, was that special powerful drive born in civilizations based on

private property

Zinn's point of view in telling the history of the U.S. is different in what way?

that we must not accept the memory of the states as our own

According to Zinn, the frenzy in the early capitalist states of Europe for gold for slaves, for products of the soil, to pay the bondholders and stockholders of the expeditions, to finance the monarchical bureaucracies rising in Western Europe, to spur the growth of the new money economy

the primitive accumulation of capital