Identifies: Week One

Marco Polo: An italian who was an adventurer and merchant from Venice. He spent twenty years traveling through China and central Asia.

The Columbian Exchange: The exchange of goods across the Atlantic Ocean. Different foods got introduced to new parts of the world. European nations gained wealth and power off of the Americans metal and other resources. Agriculture products from the Americans improved nutrition around the world. The Columbian Exchange was very important and transformed the world.

Hernando Cortez: Also known as Hernan Cortes was a professional soldier in Spain. He gathered troops and fought Indians on the Mexican coast in 1519. He was a conquistador whcih means a spanish conqueror. He conquered the Aztecs and controlled all of central Mexico.

Pueblo Revolt in 1680: When the Pueblo Indians got fed up with Spanish demands and taxes they drove the Spanish out of Sante Fe and then had a series of attacks on them.

Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494: Spain and Portugal drew a "line" that separated the world. Territory that was explored west of the line would belong to Spain and east of the line would belong to Portugal.

African Diaspora during the 1500's through 1800's: Portugals result in major economic activity from slave trade and they were resettled to the Americans. It is estimated that 10 million or more Africans were shipped to the Americas.

Magna Carta: A charter the English nobles made Kings John limiting the power of the monarch.

Anasizi; between 800 and 1100 A.D: A Native American group who began to make multistory rock and adobe dwellings. They are the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians.

Mestizos: They are below the Spaniards in the Spanish America social class. They could work at the highest positions in the Spanish society but were msotly artisans, estate supervisors, traders or shopkeepers.

Ibu Battuta: Moroccan traveller. He covered 75,000 miles of the Muslim world in the 1300's.

Zhena He: Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral. Early 1400's.

Spanish Inquisition in 1478: Was established to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in the Kingdom under control of the Spanish Monarchy.

Tomas de Torquemada 1400's: Spanish Dominican, first inquisitor general of Spain. He was a confessor to Isabella of Spain.

Mound-Builders: American Indians who constructed various styles of earthen mounds for Burial in 3000 BC to the 16th Century.

Tenochtitlan: Located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Founded 1325 and was defeated in 1521.

Thematic question Week 1

What role did women play in the family dynamic of the late 18th early 19th century Maine?

Woman in the late 18th early 19th century in Maine had a lot more jobs than the image roles of a woman of this time. They delieverd babies, nursed the sick, was a friend in need, took care of the household, cooked, cleaned, gardened etc and took care of thier husbands and children. The image that is portrayed is that woman of this time had no rights and stayed inside the home. Well this is not true, and thanks to Martha Ballards diary we now know what it was like in this time. Woman did not stay inside the home. Martha spent most of her time in other peoples homes over night and maybe even for weeks waiting for babies to deliever and then delievering them. She would nurse sick people until they were healthy again. She was an example to her family and taught her kids what was ethical. This is a description of what it was like for a woman of the 18th and early 19th century in Maine. They may not have had many rights, but they did not stay inside the kitchen. Doing the things that Martha and the other woman in Maine of this time would seem really satisfing even though they did not have all the rights as men in that time. Doing the things that they did helped the communites and made it a safer and happier environment.