HIST2111 chapter 1

John Cobot

1497- Explored the shores of Nova Scotia, Labrador, and Newfoundland

Amerigo Vespucci

America is named after him

In regard to history, what was borderland?

An unclear geographical and cultural border.

a significant difference between the Vikings and Columbus was?

Columbus received much more publicity for his voyages

Bartolome de Las Casas

Dominican priest who spoke out against mistreatment of Native Americans

In 1776, Adam Smith observed what fact about the western hemisphere?

Indians had suffered great misfortunes

Which indigenous group formed the great league of peace

Iroquois

After conquest ended and settlements were built; who stood atop the social hierarchy in Spanish America?

Peninsulares

What was the difference between Chinese and Portuguese navigation?

The Chinese were not looking to discover new places

Portuguese trading posts along the coast of Africa were called factories because?

The merchants were known as factors

A commonality shared between the Asians who crossed the Bering Straight and the Europeans who crossed the Atlantic ocean thousands of years later was

Their search for food items

How did the Dutch manifest their devotion to liberty?

They supported tolerance in religious matters in their colony

"Coverture" refers to

a woman surrendering her legal identity when she marries

Juan Ponce De leon

explored Florida

Patroonship in New Netherland

meant that shareholders received large estates for transporting tenants for agricultural labor.

As governor of New Netherland, Petrus Stuyvesant

refused to open practice of religion by Quakers and Lutherans

Hernanado Cortes

spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs

The actions of the Pueblo Indians at Santa Fe in 1680 can be best described as?

being assertive

Vasco da Gama

the first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa.

When Europeans arrived, many Native Americans

tried to use them to enhance their standing with other Native Americans.