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| What are some achievements of the Ancient Americans? | Hunting and gathering; agriculture develops: people planted crops; maya, aztec, and inca socities: developed very sophisticated empires; complex societies arise in North America: Native Americans developed their own cultures and societies too |
| What are some achievements of the Native Americans? | diverse people; common characteristics: lot of trade, helped spread of their beliefs and customs, and their was a strong sense of family |
| What are some achievements of the Europeans? | social hierachy: top was the monarchs and the peasants were at the bottom; christianity shapes the european outlook: christianity was the main religion in West Europe, eurpoeans launched the crusades and the christians wanted to force the Muslims out of the holy land because of this the crusades opened upmore trade routes; the renaissance; technology |
| What are some achievements of the West Africans? | kingdom of Songhai: rulers taxed all the goods that passed through their land from north to south; kingdom of Benin and Kongo: across West Africa was the kingdom of Beni; West African culture: most West Africans lived in villages, family ties were most important, people supported themselves by farming, herding, hunting, fishing, mining, and trading; trading patterns with the wider world: Timbuktu was the hub of a large trading network, people traded from Europe, Asia, and the Sahara Desert to West Africa, Islam was introduced; Portuguese: traded with the people of West Africa and then slaves to Europe |
| Why did Columbus come to the Americas? | he was trying to find a route to Asis. |
| How did Europeans contact change the Americas? | they brought diseases such as smallpox and thousands of Natives died because there was no medicine to help cure it |
| What motivated Spain's conquest? | wanted to conquer as much of America as they could |
| How were the Spanish able to succeed? | took advantage of people among who they lived with |
| Why did missionaries come to North America? | wanted to convert people to Christianity, to educate them to Europeans ways, and to secure the area for the Spanish |
| What resulted from the spread of missions? | had to control Native Americans by working for them and doing hard labor to support the missions |
| Some Settlers in Jamestown? | Englishmen, British, slaves, Indentured servants |
| Who were some leaders in Jamestown? | john Smith, Virginia Company, Nathonial Bacon |
| Some motives for Settlement in Jamestown? | Investors wanted a quick return on their investment |
| Jamestowns relations with the Native Americans? | completely did away with all NA that were their through war and by taking their land |
| Massachussets Bay Settlers? | Puritans, Pilgrims |
| What was one leader in Massachussets Bay? | John Winthrop |
| Some motives for settlement in Massachussets Bay? | religious freedom, political freedom, and better economic conditions |
| Massachussets Bay relations with the Native Americans? | at first they liked each other, later are resvered settlers, King Philips's War-NA wanted to do away with settlers |
| Some Settlers in New Netherlands? | Dutch, Swedish, and other ethnic groups |
| Some motives for settlement in New Netherlands? | English wanted a piece of the American Empire |
| New Netherlands relations with the Native Americans? | established fur trade with the Iroquiose indians |
| New Netherlands relations with England? | England took over colony without a fight |
| Some Settlers in Pennslyvania? | Quakers |
| What was one leader in Pennyslvania? | William Penn |
| Some motives for settlement in Pennyslvania? | Charles II paid a debt to Penn's dad |
| Pennyslvanias relations with the Native Americans? | Penn paid NA for land because he believed the land was theirs |
| Some characteristics in the Northern Colonies? | produces iron, were big on trade, they had several cash crops, had less need to rely on slave labor |
| Some characteristics in the Southern Colonies? | plantaions, they were self-independent, turned to fill their labor needs, plant owners controlled much of the economy |
| What Kind of movement was the Enlightment? | Intellectual |
| What kind of momvement was the Great Awakening? | Religious |
| Who was the key figure in the colonies in the Enlightment? | Benjamin Franklin |
| Who were the key figures in the colonies in the Great Awakening? | Jonathan Edwards, and George Whitefield |
| What ideas did the Enlightment stress? | reason and scientific methods |
| What ideas did the Great Awakening stress? | return of the Puritan church |
| What did it encourage people to do during the Enlightment? | use science and logics more |
| What did it encourage people to do during the Great Awakening? | restore colonists to their Christians religious faith and it challenged the authority of establishing churches |
