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Question 13: Describe the triangle trade as illustrated in the video.

The triangle trade consisted of Europe, Africa, and America. Europe bought the slaves from Africa, then shipped them to America to grow crops, which were used to make money that Europe used to buy more slaves. Europe had to keep buying slaves because they didnt live very long and they didnt really have children. It just worked in a circle (or triangle).

Question 15-How did the Jesuit prophet Antonio de Vieira justify the slave deportations?

Antonio de Vieira justified the use of slave labor by comparing the slaves to Jesus. He said that the slaves were suffering and being persecuted, just as Jesus had been. In this comparison, he made it seem as though the slaves would be thankful in the end because they understood the plight of Jesus and what Jesus had experienced. He also said that by being laborers, the slaves were serving God. He used religious beliefs and figures of Christianity to justify the abuse that the slaves were subject to.

I guess got lucky I got the one I wanted and im third. Wow most of the time in third to last.

Q: #11 Why were Africans brought to Brazil in the 17 century?

A: Africans were taken to Brazil to works as slaves. African slaves worked in hard labor in the sugar cane plantations of Brazil. There they did the job of the pesants since many of them had died from diseases. They were treated badly and many were brutaly hurt and for many the only way to seek survival was by running a way.

#1. How did scientific thought change during this period?

People such as Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton came up with theories about the universe to try and comprehend the structure of things. These people believed that everything should be looked at rationally and with reason. These people were a major part of the Scientific Revolution.

Question 14- What was life like on the sugar cane plantation?

In the 17th century, 1.5 million Blacks were shipped to America to work on the sugar cane plantations. Working the land was so called “hell for Africans.” They chopped and crushed the canes, then worked the boilers in the refineries which was sweaty work. Slaves who worked for ten years on a plantation would see about half their fellow workers die. If the slaves “stepped out of line” they were corrected by beating, then cut with a knife and have the wound rubbed with salt, lemon juice and yurin.
There were few slave children. Slave women deliberately restircted the number of children they had, knowing they would become enslaved as well. They used it as a form of resistence to the Europeans.

Question #17: What modern-day dance comes from the “unarmed combat” of the people of Palmares?

A: The dance created by the African slaves of Angola is called the “Capoeira,” which combines music, dance, singing, and acrobatics, which is also a form of teaching self-defense that was generally used against violent overlords. Since the slaves were not allowed to show aggression directly, they disguised it in the form of a dance to fight off their masters during slave rebellions.

The dance has also brought along martial arts to modern-day.

Question 25:
What was the relationship between the accuracy of the calendar and the Emporor’s athority? The Emporor’s ability to predict seasons ended up failing when rain came late and crops failed. Since the Emporor based his seasons off when these things came his predictions were not accurate. The people always beleived the Emporor’s calendar but now it was not accurate and the European’s came along with a better understanding and technology of the seasons therefore having a better calendar.

Question 7: What problems did the settlers face as a result of Jamestown’s geographic location? According to Shirley Little Dove, why did the Powhatan find this strange. The settlers that founded Jamestown had issues with bugs, drinkable water, and farming because the place was a giant swamp. The Powhatan assisted the settlers and found that the settlers couldn’t find found or anything which was strange to them because they can find everything they need in the swamp.

Question 28: Why do you think it was important to the Jesuits that they be able to demonstrate a superior scientific knowledge to the Chinese?

The Jesuits’ stay in China was allowed because of their technology, which created interest among the Chines. The importance of superior scientific knowldege of the Jesuits basically kept them in China. China felt that their own land was the best and very few things could impress them. Because the Chinese were already suspicious of the religions being brought into China, the Jesuits used science as their reason for being in China. By maintaining a higher standard in science, the Jesuits were not run-out of the country for their religion.

Question 10: How did the introduction of the tobacco plant impact the Jamestown colony? How was this plant related to the beginning of the slave trade in North America?

When the tobacco plant arrived in Jamestown it brought pleasure to the colonists and also gave them something to trade with. The tobacco plant gave the colonists a new industry. Since the plant took the work of many people, it wasn’t easy for the colonists at first. Because of this, they had to bring slaves over to North America so that the tobacco could be farmed efficiently.

Question 18: Consider the relationship of the descendents of African slaves in Brazil to Africa. How does this connection compare with that of the descendents of African slaves in North America? How do you account for this?

Well the relationship between the two civlizations is quite similiar. If you want to get technical its exactly the same relationship because they bothe are Africans just on group is a slave for Brazil and the other is for America. Really though the difference is that Brazil needed the African slaves for sugar cane plantations. The other group of slaves were used for tobacco plantation in America. All were needed for cruel labor that both Brazil and America did not have enough people that were willing to do it. That’s basicly the relationship between the two civilization as simple as it can get. Feel free to add to, correct, or respond to as usual.

So i guess i am going to answer:
How did the culture of the Americas change as a consequence of slavery?

How culture in America changed with slavery is that people in America really began to show social classes which they automatically put africans in the lowest class because the color of their skin was not like others. And as the years past slaves were used more and more for labor and were seen worse and worse; just shown as plain trash. What does this say about the America is they put out the understanding of a mans worth in there eyes. They believed and shared their views that Africans were not as good as Whites. Which just corrupted Americas view. And still today hasn’t been cleared up.

#13 what effect did the sceintific revolution have on other thought?

well when scientists started discovering that what they could see in space, and what the church was telling everyone was..on compltely different plants in a way, it sparked a “revolution” of thought, and people began to wonder what else the church might be wrong about.

feel free make corrections because i didnt get a chance to see this episode so i hope i got it right!

Question #4: How did the Scientific Revolution affect the notions of religious “truth”? What alternatives did the Scientific Revolution offer to ways of thinking about religion?

A lot of the cientific discoveries made dduring the Scientific Revolution contradicted and proved false many of the Catholic Church’s doctrines. When the discovery was made that Earth was actually orbiting the sun, it destroyed the Ptloemaic of geocentric theory of the universe in which Earth was surrounded by 10 “heavenly bodies” and then ultimately Heaven. When logically thinking arose it also made people realize that everything that was in existance could be seen as a mathematical equation that was created by God, now seen as the “celestial engineer.”

Question 27: Why were the Chinese suspicious of the European’s motives?

Ha why shouldn’t they be?
The Chinese knew that the Europeans were conquerors and most the time intolerable. The Chinese didn’t want to be conquered, killed, or converted. Therefore they were suspicious.

Question #6: How did the settlers describe their first impressions of Jamestown? How did their feelings change with time?

A: At first the Jamestown settlers hated Jamestown. They were not familiar with the land and amount of rainfall. They were not amune to the diseases either. The Native Americans were new to their thoughts and sights also. They did not know how to react to them. So they fought against them. Later on though they got over the diseases and the farmers from the Indian villages taught them some harvesting skills and became their allies. They made their settlements prosperous and lived happily ever after. This is the story of THANKSGIVING.

Question 5: Why was Newton’s work so critical to the Scientific Revolution?

Newton’s three laws of motion defined the universe in a new way. His law of gravity governed the solar system and even objects on earth, proving The Caperncan System of the universe. His laws also contributed his “world-machine concept,” which dominated the world view until Albert Einstein’s concept of reletivity changed it. Newton changed the world by stating the natural laws that are plain as day to any knidergardener today.

Question #23- why were the British eventually successful against Mysore’s resistance?

They were sucsesful because they had more money more materials and more men and all of these eventually just wore down Mysore and his men.

Better late than never still…..maybe

#24: Why were spices so desirable? What was it about cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon that created such enormous wealth for those who sold them?

Well, spices were(i dont know if they still are) essential ingredients for many medicines in the 17th century. Also the rich would flavor their unusually bland food with special spices, aswell as preserving food with salt such as cod(salt cod). Nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves were very valuable because they were only grown in a small handful of places in the world; i.e. nutmeg only grew on one little island. As the spices spread and eventually were cultivated, however, they became cheaper and now more than just the richest people own spices.