Question

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1. what is colonization?
2. how did columbus and his crew treat the indigenous people they met?
3. why is portuguese spoken in brazil?
4. what does it mean to “circumnavigate” something?
5. what was the columbian exchange?
6. how did the conquistadores conquer entire empires with only a few hundred soldiers?
7. what were the three kinds of spanish settlements in the americas?
8. how did captive africans demonstrate resistance and defiance during the middle passage?
9. what is the legacy of european exploration in the americas?

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chapter 4
the atlantic world
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Explanation:

These questions relate to historical events of European exploration, colonization, and their impacts in the Americas.

Answer:

1. Colonization is the process where a country establishes control over another territory, often settling people there.
2. They treated Indigenous people harshly, enslaving and exploiting them for resources.
3. Brazil was a Portuguese colony, so the language was imposed during colonization.
4. To sail or travel all the way around a continent, island, or the globe.
5. The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and culture between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after Columbus's voyages.
6. They used superior weapons, alliances with rival groups, and introduced diseases that decimated Indigenous populations.
7. Pueblos (towns), missions (religious outposts), and presidios (forts).
8. Through revolts, suicide, refusing to eat, or sabotaging the ship.
9. Cultural blending, displacement of Indigenous peoples, spread of diseases, and establishment of colonial systems.