https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z World History Honors Project en-us 2021-03-17 05:14:11 UTC 2021-03-18 03:32:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1fa-1f1f8.png tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319050040 Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He was hired by Spain to try and find a path West to China/India to trade spices and gold easier. Columbus "discovered" America. It has now been found that both China and the Vikings found the Americas before Columbus, but didn't colonize the land.]]> 2021-03-17 05:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319050040 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319050533 The French and Indian war was from 1756-1763. This war was the English fighting the French and Natives. The war started out poorly for the English, but soon was turned around. After all the fighting, the English acquired Florida, gave the Spanish Louisiana, and took the French Canadian territories. This war would be the cause for a chain of events that would lead up to the Revolutionary war and the American getting their independence.]]> 2021-03-17 05:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319050533 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319050969 The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed in 1494. This treaty basically stated that the right side of the red vertical line would go to Portugal and the left side would go to Spain. This led to Portugal being almost irrelevant in the new world due to the limited amount of land and the Spanish to get a lot of new land.]]> 2021-03-17 05:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319050969 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319051974 Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer. He was most known for being the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe. Unlike Ferdinand Magellan, Drake lived to see the trip all the way through and made it back. Additionally, he raided Spanish ships to have enough supplies.]]> 2021-03-17 05:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319051974 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319052405 Henry Hudson was an English explorer. Henry was hired by the Dutch East India Company to look for a north western passage to Asia. He didn't find one but instead explored a large portion of the North Eastern part of North America. The Hudson river in New York is named after him because he helped to establish NYC.]]> 2021-03-17 05:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319052405 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319052866 Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer. What Ferdinand did was organize the Spanish expeditions of the East Indies. This caused the first Circumnavigation of the world. He was significant because he was the first European explorer to cross the Pacific Ocean.]]> 2021-03-17 05:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319052866 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319053549 Hernan Cortes was a Spanish Conquistador. With the help of Aztec rivals they were able to take down the Aztec Empire. The disease his men brought killed a lot of the native people and he enslaved the rest. He also captured a large portion of land in modern day Mexico.]]> 2021-03-17 05:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319053549 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319054647 In 1607, Jamestown was founded by just over 100 English men. Because of drought, famine, disease, and the native people it was hard to maintain the colony. The colony was able to pull through and survive. It was the first English colony in the New World and opened the doors to more colonies, new cash crops like tobacco, and slaves from Africa to pick the tobacco.]]> 2021-03-17 05:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319054647 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319055401 Hernan Cortes, alongside local tribes that were Aztec rivals, conquered their capital city of Tenochtitlan in 1521. This was a key step in the Spanish colonization of the New World because this was the most powerful Mesoamerican kingdom of all time.]]> 2021-03-17 05:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1319055401 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1323115309 On November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro (Spanish Explorer) and his army kill the Incan emperor and conquer their land, and enslave the native people. This was significant because it led to the collapse of the Inca empire.]]> 2021-03-17 23:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1323115309 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1323121932 In 1720, the Encomienda system was abolished. Using this system, the Spanish basically said the Spaniards in the Americas could make the indigenous people into slaves. This was mostly used in Peru. Once the system was abolished it led to the Spanish killing most of the Native population because they tried to convert these natives to Christianity.]]> 2021-03-17 23:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1323121932 tjflanary https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1323664472 “Aztec Capital Falls to Cortés.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Feb. 2010, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/aztec-capital-falls-to-cortes.
    “Fransisco Pizarro Traps Incan Emperor Atahualpa.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 16 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pizarro-traps-incan-emperor-atahualpa#:~:text=On%20November%2016%2C%201532%2C%20Francisco,on%20the%20Incan%20emperor%2C%20Atahualpa.&text=Pizarro's%20men%20massacre%20the%20Incans,timing%20for%20conquest%20was%20perfect.
   “History of Jamestown.” History Is Fun, 12 May 2020, www.historyisfun.org/jamestown-settlement/history-jamestown/.
    History.com Editors. “Exploration of North America.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/exploration/exploration-of-north-america.
    History.com Editors. “French and Indian War.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/french-and-indian-war.
   Minster, Christopher. “Colonial Spain and the Horrors of the Encomienda System.” ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/spains-american-colonies-encomienda-system-2136545. ]]> 2021-03-18 03:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tjflanary/r7glvztm1yh01a8z/wish/1323664472