HIST 2055 : American History Exam One
Document Summary
Me: spices, silk: black death, aka plague, numonic plague lungs, bubonic plague yuck glands (rat fleas, 1347-1350 kills 1/3 to of population. Skeleton becomes figure in art and plays. On the bright side, survivors get rich bc lots of property is left. Resort to throwing in dead bodies from plague (guts everywhere, rats come out to play) 3 sailors swim to messina, plague spreads there. All of italy and france become infected: portugal, compete with italy needed all water route to beat them, prince henry the navigator. Subsidize captains to explore africa, wanted to sail around tip to india and china. Named san salvador: take back a carib (native), plants, and gold dust sand, kills natives, exploits land. Why england came to north america: france, spain, holland, and mercantilism, for gold, wood, iron, and glass, jamestown, virginia, in 1607: settlement as enterprise. Reasons people went to american colonies: economic, religious, persecution, reasons of state, primogeniture and entail.
