AP World History Assignments

Chapter 25: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania

After reading Chapter 25, you will be able to:

Explan in what ways disease was a determining factor in the conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires

Explain how formal Spanish imperial rule differed from British, French, and Dutch trade and colonization as a means of establishing dominance in North America

Recognize the importance of silver, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton in contributing to the expansion of slavery

Recognize how trans-Pacific trade by Spain, Portugal, and Britain slowly brought Oceania into European domina

Chapter 25: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania

On provided maps under Downloads tab, locate the following places (see pages 672 and 688 in textbook):

Caribbean Islands
Aztec empire
Tenochtitlan
Brazil
Peru
Mesoamerica
New Castile
Quebec
Massachusetts Bay
Philadelphia
New Guinea
Easter Island
Hawaiian Islands




Hispanola
Inca empire
Cuzco
Mexico
New France
New Spain
St. Augustine
Jamestown
New York
Australia
New Zealand
Tahiti




Chapter 25: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania

As you read Chapter 25, take notes on the following terms and concepts: Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?

Herán Cortés (665, 669, 670)
Treaty of Tordesillas (673, 692)
smallpox (668, 670, 671, 682, 689, 692)
conquistadors (670, 671, 673, 675, 681)
mestizo (métis) (666, 676, 677, 678, 686)
settler colony (673, 674)
peninsulares (678)
mit’a system (679)
hacienda (680)
fur trade (678, 682, 683)
indentured servitude (684)
Manila galleons (680, 688, 689)
Ptolemaic universe (657)
Newton (658; 659)
John Locke (659)

Sources from the Past: First Impressions of Spanish Forces (669)




Doña Marina/Malintzin(665, 666, 670)
encomienda (668, 680)
Seven Years’ War, 1754-1763 (634; 635) Francisco Pizarro (669, 670)
viceroy (671)
mulattos (677, 678)
Potosi (679)
silver trade (668, 678, 680)
sugar plantations (668, 673, 681)
tobacco (668, 676, 683)
James Cook (687, 690)
Sources from the Past: Adam Smith on the Capitalist Market (655)

Sources from the Past: Captain James Cook on the Hawaiians (690) (compare to below)

Sources from the Past: Christopher Columbus's First Impressions of American Peoples (607)

Chapter 25: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania

Word document or pdf document of map locations and Chapter 25 terms. Maps: European empires and colonies in the Americas about 1700 (see page 672); Manila galleon route and the lands of Oceania, 1500-1800 (see page 688).