Annotated Bibliography Primary Source: Captain James Cook is a British explorer who visited six out of seven continents in 3 voyages. James mapped the lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in great detail and on a scale that has never been seen. While he was on his voyage he surveyed and named the features, and recorded the islands and coastlines on a European map for the first time. He shows a combination of seamship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage
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embraced Christianity, but their enemy, Lapu-Lapu was not. Humabon wanted Magellan to kill Lapu-Lapu while Magellan wanted to convert Lapu-Lapu into Christianity. On April 17, 1521, Magellan sailed to Mactan and ensuing battle killed Magellan by the natives lead by Lapu-Lapu. Out of the five ships and more than 300 men who left on the Magellan expedition in 1519, only one ship (the Victoria) and 18 men returned to Seville, Spain on September 6, 1522. Nevertheless, the said expedition was considered historic
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hunters. Following the extinction of mammoths and other big game prey, the native people were able to adapt to environmental and social fluctuations and developed a hunter-gatherer culture. Native Americans had thriving communities with highly sophisticated political, economic and social systems that emerged and were practiced. The Spanish were the first Europeans to actively pursue exploiting the New World. European explorer nations of Spain, Britain, France and Holland were looking for a western
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You can open it from the Start menu, you can open it from the desktop or the File Explorer, you can search for it from the search bar and then open it, or you can pin it to the taskbar and open it from there. However, that isn’t enough… Or so Microsoft thought. Especially for the keyboard-pro people who prefer to do every task with the
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Christopher Columbus- An italian explorer, Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas. Actually looking for a quicker way to get to the East Indies, Christopher Columbus tried to find a sponsor for his voyage. After being denied from the King of Portugal multiple times, he finally made a deal with Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. After crossing the vast Atlantic Ocean, Columbus came across the West Indies, instead of the East. He was cruel to the natives and enslaved some for their wealth
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The Age of Exploration took place from the 15th through 17th century. European explorers combined the Old and New Worlds through the Age of Exploration. The causes of the Age of Exploration resulted in the colonization of the New World. Religion, leadership, and money also known as God, Glory, and Gold were the causes of the Age of Exploration. Even though the Age of Exploration appears to have a good connotation it had some negative effects. The positive effects of the Age of Exploration had to
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After the failed attempts to acquire the Philippines he then turned his attention to colonize Africa. In 1876 Leopold organized a private meeting called the international African Society. Two years after the meeting in 1878 King Leopold hired an explorer Henry Stanley to explore and acquire a colony in the Congo. Henry Stanley helped King Leopold II of Belgium to claim Congo by negotiating with its local leaders, although he would not apply any treaties that allowed power over Congo. King Leopold
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This source descriptively described the well-known explorer, Christopher Columbus. Las Casas to how Columbus was educated as a child and what areas he excelled in. During his childhood, Columbus received an education in the area of reading and writing. Them he started studying mathematics, art such as drawing and painting, and other areas like astronomy, geography, and seamanship. Las Casas wrote in a way that leads the audience to believe that Columbus was a master at his studies and that he could
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My previous knowledge of Christopher Columbus was that he was the man known for discovering America and also the man to learn that the world was not flat. He was always portrayed as a hero in my eyes ever since I was a kid. Being able to learn more about him and getting to listen to these lectures and reading more about him has really opened my eyes to the true Columbus. My impressions of Christopher Columbus when I was younger was that he was a hero and one of the most important American history
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The British Iroquois Alliance The Iroquois were a group of First Nation people living in eastern North America even before the first explorers discovered the new world. The Iroquois were the major tribe who traded and expanded their hand in the fur trade, during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. From the 1667 to the 1680’s the Iroquois maintained a good relation with the French. They allowed the Jesuits in, but due the Iroquois expansive and aggressive mentality conflict rose between the French
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