HY 101 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Colony Of Virginia, Kingdom Of England, George Washington
12 Oct 2018
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When the glaciers receded and melted they scraped away topsoil and the great lakes were formed and filled. They spread to all parts of america in over 2,000 years: incas in peru, mayans in central america, and aztecs in mexico shaped stunningly sophisticated civilizations. They revered the physical world and endowed nature with spiritual properties. Bartholomeu dias rounded the southernmost tip of africa in 1488. ten years later. Vasco da gama finally reached india: meanwhile, spain was growing stringer and also wanted to reach new wealth and discovery. Columbus comes upon a new world: spain was ready for new power and riches. When worlds collide: new world plants such as tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and especially the lowly potato eventually revolutionized the international economy as well as the european diet. The spanish conquistadores: the europeans realized that there were riches in the americas, the treaty of tordesillas was established dividing the new world between portugal and.
