AMH 2010 - Midterm Exam Questions and
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Christopher Columbus - ✔✔- Explorer trying to find a new way to deliver
goods
- only Spain could accommodate his trip
- he was under sovereign state and received money to build ships and
other needed items
conquistadors - ✔✔sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers, often of noble
birth, who subdues the Native Americans and created the Spanish empire
in the New World
Sir Francis Drake - ✔✔one of Queen Elizabeth's "sea dogs" who seized
Spanish treasure ships in American waters
Hernan Cortes - ✔✔- a minor government functionary in Cuba
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, - he led a small army to verify the Mexican treasure
- his conquests transformed Spain into the wealthiest states in Europe,
temporarily
Sir Walter Raleigh - ✔✔in 1584 traveled to eastern North America
- he named Virginia after the Virgin queen
The Columbian exchange - ✔✔the exchange of plants, animals, culture, and
diseases between Europe and the Americas from first contact throughout
the era of exploration
encomienda system - ✔✔an exploitative labor system designed by Spanish
rulers to reward conquistadors in the New World by granting them local
villages and control over native labor
Roanoke - ✔✔colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh. First attempt for a
permanent English colony
John White - ✔✔a veteran administrator and artist that Raleigh put in
charge of the second of the lost colonys
- he left for supplies and did not come up until 1590
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Christopher Columbus - ✔✔- Explorer trying to find a new way to deliver
goods
- only Spain could accommodate his trip
- he was under sovereign state and received money to build ships and
other needed items
conquistadors - ✔✔sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers, often of noble
birth, who subdues the Native Americans and created the Spanish empire
in the New World
Sir Francis Drake - ✔✔one of Queen Elizabeth's "sea dogs" who seized
Spanish treasure ships in American waters
Hernan Cortes - ✔✔- a minor government functionary in Cuba
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, - he led a small army to verify the Mexican treasure
- his conquests transformed Spain into the wealthiest states in Europe,
temporarily
Sir Walter Raleigh - ✔✔in 1584 traveled to eastern North America
- he named Virginia after the Virgin queen
The Columbian exchange - ✔✔the exchange of plants, animals, culture, and
diseases between Europe and the Americas from first contact throughout
the era of exploration
encomienda system - ✔✔an exploitative labor system designed by Spanish
rulers to reward conquistadors in the New World by granting them local
villages and control over native labor
Roanoke - ✔✔colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh. First attempt for a
permanent English colony
John White - ✔✔a veteran administrator and artist that Raleigh put in
charge of the second of the lost colonys
- he left for supplies and did not come up until 1590
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