What’s on this webpage:
What Is This Webpage For and What
Do the Colors Mean?
Looking at
Events Nation-by-Nation to Determine Patterns in Colonization
If you missed any of the
questions on nation states and where these European nation-states took over
in the Americas, be sure to read those sections of the textbook before class.
The lecture on this part of the baseline will fill in the table normally provided
at the bottom after the lecture. |
You can memorize history or you can understand it. In the long run, understanding history takes less time than memorizing and lasts for your lifetime—something that can’t be said for memorizing. This webpage can help you understand the interconnected issues.
You are not to memorize these dates or details about the counties: they are meant to provide background only, including background to help you with terms for the Exam. You will have:
§ No questions on the objective part of Exam 1 that are different from the objective questions in Quiz A, B, or C
§ No paragraphs to write for the Short Evidence Project part of Exam 1 than the terms listed for you.
Color reveals the nations in the remaining sections of this webpage. If you have trouble seeing colors, the names of the nations are provided as well. The colors are:
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green |
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red |
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lavender |
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This is color-coded to show connections to the table
that follows. |
Look for the
interconnections between nations. Notice the roles in the
Notice where they
are and what their source of wealth is. Notice what people have a reason to
risk their lives crossing the
Nation |
Date |
Event |
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1519-1521 |
Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés, conquers the Aztecs and takes their gold (Royal fifth goes to the king.) |
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1530-1533 |
Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro, conquers the Incas and takes their gold |
|
1560 |
Spanish Jesuits, missionary efforts increased in the |
|
1565 |
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|
1573 |
Spanish
Franciscans, responsibility for pacification |
|
1578 |
|
Dutch and |
1581 |
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|
1582 |
Cargo of furs ( |
|
1585 |
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Spanish
Armada, defeat of—shift of naval power to |
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|
1598 |
Spanish encomienda system (translation: charge or
commission) – They try feudalism. |
|
1598 |
Edict of |
Dutch |
1600s |
Slave sales by the Dutch, with the Dutch trading for
slaves and with the |
|
1600s |
French colonial seigneuries (translation: senior lord.) – They try
feudalism. |
|
1600s |
French Jesuit missionaries |
|
1600s |
French coureurs de
bois (translation: runners of the woods) – They must trade to get the
furs and therefore they make alliances with the Indians. |
Dutch |
1602 |
United (Dutch) East India Company, with the Dutch trading
in the |
|
1608 |
|
|
1609 |
|
|
1609 |
French aid for Hurons v. Five
Nations (Iroquois) |
Dutch |
1609 |
Henry Hudson (Dutch; of |
German areas |
1618* |
Thirty Years War (German
areas), began partly over religion – The wars continue for 30 years. |
England |
1620 |
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Dutch |
1621 |
Dutch West India Company, with the Dutch trading in the |
Dutch |
1624+ |
New |
|
1627 |
Status of “natural French” when Indians were baptized |
Dutch |
1629 |
New |
England |
1634 |
Maryland – They try to try feudalism. |
German areas |
1638* |
Thirty Years War (German areas), closed by Treaty of Westphalia which says—to simplify—that a nation-state can determine its own religion |
Dutch |
1648 |
|
England |
1660s |
Carolinas– They try to try feudalism. |
|
1685 |
Edict of |
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