US History Notes

Three Sisters farming

• People had their own food, didn't need to leave far.
• Pueblo constructed irrigation systems to water their cornfields.

The Earliest Americans

• Social life was less elaborately developed.
• Nation states did not exist, except the Aztec empire.
• The mound builders were in the Ohio River valley.
• The Mississippian settlement was a Cahokia.

Indirect Discoverers of the New World

• Vikings were the first Europeans in North American. They came and left.
• Middlemen- the people who controlled the trade.
• Spain and Portugese had the strongest armies.

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• They gave Christopher money in 1492 and 3 tiny shits.
• Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
• lands in Bahamas on Oct 12 1492.
• Columbian exchange: the transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between old and new worlds.
• he sailed for the spanish

The Columbian Exchange

• New World:
• foodstuff: corn, potatoes, beans, cocoa beans
• precious metals: gold, silver
• tobacco
• Old world:
• old world: wheat, sugar, rice, coffee beans.
• livestock: horses cows, pigs
• diseases: small box, measles, influenza, typhus

The Spanish Conquistadores

• Spain secures claim to Columbus's discovery by Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
• Divides new world with Portugal.
• looking for gold, glory and god.
• Balboa: Discoverer of the Pacific.
• Magellan: 1st circo

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• amerigo
• cabot-england
• cartier- french
• vascodagama- portugal
• balboa- first to see pacific
• el coronado- chasing 7 cities of gold
• magellan-rounded tip of south america
• ponce de leon- explored florida.

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• mercantilism- belief in the benefits of profitable trading: commercialism.
• de soto- discovered mississippi river.
• pazzaro- conquers incas
• Hernan Cortes reaches Aztec Empire.
• -greeted by moctezuma
• given gold, geta gold thirsty.
• Malinche/ Dona Marina seen as traitor.
• Noche Triste: Aztecs attack Spanish
• Cortes conquers the Aztec creates mestizo culture

Black Legend

• Spanish mistreatment gives birth to Black legend.