Staple Crops of the Aztecs and Incas Aztecs- Corn Incas- Potatoes Define the Americas’ level of contact with Afro-Eurasia Extremely limited (basically none except for the Vikings) No influence prior to 1492 Isolation Where were the Aztec and Inca empires based? Capitals? Aztec- Mexico, capital= Tenochtitlan (on lake Texcoco) Inca- centered in Peru (South America Andes Mountains), capital= Cuzco Political, Social, Economic characteristics of the Aztec compared to Incas Compare: Polytheistic Human…
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America to the Pacific Ocean for Portugal, made to the Philippines and died. His crew continued and became the first to circumnavigate the globe -Henry Hudson- 1609, sailed for the Dutch looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia -Hernan Cortes: Aztec and Incan Empire for Spain -New technologies: -Sternpost Rudder(invented in China during Han, made for better navigation and control of ships of increasing size, got to Europeans by trade) -Lateen sails -Astrolabe(from Hellenic world around…
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Be sure to describe its position of power and influence. Spain Ottoman Empire China For the period from 1500 – 1850, compare North American racial ideologies and their effects on society with Latin American/Caribbean racial ideologies and their effects on society. Analyze the social and economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic World as a result of new contacts among Western Europe, Africa and the Americas from 1492 to 1750. Within the period…
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represented political unity of the muslim state. It could be seen as the "head of the state." It had officials that were representatives of other peoples and groups who must govern according to Islam law. The decision of who should be named caliph had many effects. The two groups, Sunni and Shi'a Islam fought over who should be named caliph. In the decades after the prophet's death, the question of succession generated deep divisions in the Muslim community, and it split. The Sunnis backed up the Umayyads,…
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First major Andean Empire Raised-Field Agriculture Imperial colonization and Evangelization Built things out of rock therefore it lasts and tells us about how they lived and what they did 2. Aztec Empire (Pre-Columbian) classic maya and teotihuacan were there a 1000years before texcoco Aztecs and tlalcopán Founding of Tenochtitlán 1200: Mexica arrive in Valley of Mexico ca. 1200 1345: Teno. was founded Tenochtitlan was in the very center of where Mexico City is now 1428: Founding of…
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dropped taxes on exports from Mexico to the United States, which created the cheap option for companies to produce in Mexico and export to the United States. “Made in Mexico” stickers were the original foreign production stickers. This modern day imperialism is called globalization. Private companies from other…
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Western-ideas and thoughts during the “Age of Imperialism” was due to the fact that they were all in all more advanced than their acquired territories. For if the Aztecs had swords and rifles the Spanish would not have conquered them so easily, the same can be said about the French in Zaire. “It was precisely Capitalist society that was needed to create the necessary conditions for the original conception of the steam mill to be developed and put into effect. It was Capitalism that created the technology…”…
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gain personal wealth with private properties. Since there was no intercontinental contact in Caribbean before European colonized them, the several tribes were formed in the region rather than being possessed by a king like European countries. Yet Aztec and Inca empires were existed with their own culture at the time when Spanish with advanced artillery such as steel swords, muskets and cannons imposed their own rule in those regions. By 1492, Spain and Portugal were thirsty for the colonies to…
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Based on what I have read, researched, and gathered from this text and other sources, I must concur with Alice Kehoe in her assessment of the negative and devastating effects that European colonization has had on the Native American populations of this continent. One of the most devastating effects seems to be the deterioration of Native American culture and traditions as they have slowly and painfully been assimilated into American, Canadian, and Mexican societies. Since…
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GEA 2000 Spring 2015 Exam # 1 Review Questions* Introduction chapter, Globalization (PPT), “Guns, Germs, and Steel” (video). 1. What is geography? 2. Which of the following statements best defines environmental determinism? 3. Which of the following statements best defines possibilism? 4. Which of the following statements illustrates environmental determinism? 5. Which of the following statements illustrates possibilism? 6. Which of the following examples best defines the role of…
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