Studying for the AP exam
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- How to Write a Long Essay Question (LEQ) for AP History (APUSH, AP World, & AP Euro) 2019-2020 (Embed)
- Caption: How to write an LEQ, it really helps
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- What were the initial purposes of European exploration in the New World?
- To find gold
- To find spices
- To conquer land
- To find metals
- To control
- What were the primary means of contact between the Europeans. the American Indians, and Africans?
- The Europeans enslaved the American Indians and Africans
- The Europeans controlled the American Indians and African cultures
- The Europeans traded at first with the American Indians
- The Europeans attacked the American Indians
- The Europeans enslaved the Africans to work on sugar plantations
- Who were the first European explorers in the Americas? Identify them chronologically by name and country of origin:
- Marco Polo; Venice, Italy
- Columbus; Genoa, Italy
- Cortes; Medellian, Spain
- Which geographic arMaeas in the Americas did different European nations generally control or conquer?
- Maryland was controlled
- South Carolina was controlled
- North Carolina was controlled
- Georgia was controlled
- Florida was controlled
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- Identify at least three consequences of European exploration and conquest for each group: American Indians, Africans, and Europeans (both the explorers and the Europeans in Europe)
- American Indians:
- Europeans attacked them
- Europeans stole their food
- Europeans stole their land
- Africans:
- Enslaved
- No rights
- Had to leave home country
- Europeans:
- Battles
- Hunger
- Money Issues
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- For whom should we, as Americans today, have more sympathy: American Indians or Africans, based on the readings in this Unit?
- As Americans today we should have more sympathy towards American Indians. American Indians deserve more sympathy because the Europeans came in and intruded on their land. Also they were killed by the Europeans or died from European dieases.
- What were some of the conflicting attitudes about the European conquest of the Americans among those living in the era based on primary sources?
- In primary sources it seems as if the Europeans did nothing wrong. It seemed as if it was okay to attack the American Indians. However the secondary sources show that the "discovery" of America greatly harmed the American Indians, and the Europeans shouldn't have attacked them.
- In what ways do our views about the European conquest of the Americas resemble or conflict with views if those living in the era?
- Our ways of viewing the Europeans conflict with those living in the era. Now, it seems wrong and awful what the Europeans did to the American Indians. In the era it seemed right what the Europeans did to the American Indians, because it was the way of life.
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- The shaping of North America:
- 225 million years ago- Earth and Pangea were made
- Glaciers formed because of Pangea splitting
- Glaciers melted and formed small bodies of water
- Mountains were created
- The floor of the Earth moved splitting up Pangea making new continets
- Indirect Discoveries of the New World:
- Accidental discovery of the New World
- Spices, silk, et ac where wanted from other travelers
- The luxuries of the East were very expensive in Europe
- Muslim middlemen had a high toll to pay
- Goods became so expensive because of the journey
- Peopling the Americas:
- Evidence-early people reached Americas in crude boats
- Sea level dropped- land bridge connected Eurasia and North America
- Ice Age ended, land bridge covered by water
- Climatic warming opened valleys
- People split into tribes, 2,000 seperate languages, many religions, cultures, and ways of life
- Advanced agriculture
- Lacked large draft animals (horses and oxen)
- No simple technology (wheel)
- Built huge cities and towns
- Did human sacrifices to crown the Aztec chieftan; cutting heart out of a live victim
- Showed large area of glaciers
- Migrating route, along land bridge to North America to South America
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- The Earliest Americans:
- 2,000 B.C.E. corn planting met American culture
- Drought caused all ancient cultures to fall around 1300 C.E.
- 1492 no more than 4 million Native Americans roamed the forests of Mexico
- Corn reached other civilizations
- Hardly and social life for Pueblo's
- Chokia was home to 25,000 people
- Three-sister farming technique helped to keep the soil moist for farming
- The Iroquis congederacy created a political and organizational skilled military alliance
- Women tended crops
- Men hunted, fished, gathered fuel, and cleared fields for planting
- Europeans Enter Africa:
- Marco Polo; may have never seen China
- Caravel; a ship that could sail more closely to the winds
- 2/5 of the Europeans gold went on camelback across the Sahara
- Slavery was though of before the Europeans
- Slaves; brought to harvest sugar, worked on plantations
- Spain wanted destiny
- Columbus comes upon a New World:
- 1450-printing presses
- October 12, 1492, Bahamas sighted
- After 1492 the world would never be the same
- Europeans wanted cheaper stuff
- Columbus called the people in the "Indies" Indians
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- When World's Collide:
- Columbian exchange happened for centuries
- Europeans introduced "Old World" crops to the Americas
- European introduced horses
- The Conquest of Mexico and Peru:
- Treaty of Tordessillas divided the "heathen land" and the New World
- Encomienda= slavery
- Hernan Cortes got a translator to understand Mayan and Nahuatl languages
- Cortes wouldn't accept the Aztecs gifts. all he wanted was gold
- Noche, triste, and Aztecs attacked Spanish
- Capitalism occurred
- Mestizps, mixed Indians and European heritage
- Exploration and Imperial Rivalry:
- Vasco Nunez Balbo claimed land for his king
- Juan Ponce de Leon explored Florida
- Within a half a century of Columbus's landing many cities blossomed
- Giovannicaboto northeastern coast of North America
- Battle of Acoma, Spanish took one foot from each Indian
- Pope's Rebellion, Pueblo rebels destroyed every catholic church
- Spanish presence= weak
- Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo had explored California but never found San Fransico
- Black legend, false concept that the conquers killed the Indians
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- Summary:
- The chapter mainly about how the Indians got to America, and how the European explorers got to America. Also the chapter shows how the Europeans treated the Indians. Finally, the chapter shows how the Native Americans were affected.
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