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1- How did the invention of the printing press change the world?
2- How did the Spanish treat the Natives of the Americas? Why?
3- What is the Northwest Passage? Why did Europe spend time looking for it?
They punished them, killed them, and if they ran away then they would get severely beaten or even killed. Slaves would receive harsh penalties for minor offenses, like breaking a tool. They did this probably because they wanted to teach their slave a lesson for what they did. Or maybe because they didn't like what they were doing.
ReplyDeleteJessica Barlocker
The invention of the printing press helped change the world by helping spread the ideas of the Reformation. It let Protestants print large numbers of bibles and short essays explaining their ideas. Having more bibles accessible let people on their own read and ponder the book, instead of being taught or lectured by a priest.
ReplyDeleteEthan Angerbauer
The Northwest passage was an imaginary river or water-way that ran through North America. Europeans spent so much time searching for it because they thought that it would make trading with Asia and other distant countries so much easier.
ReplyDelete-Shaylynn Cannon
Europe wanted to find the North West passage because they wanted to find a different trade route to Asia. Da Gama went to India using the south east passage. Europe searched for a passage across north america so they could get to Asia a different way. I believe Lewis and Clark discovered there is no Northwest passage.
ReplyDeleteMakael Watts
The Northwest passage was the "road" that Europe wanted to take that would go through or around America so they could make an easy way to India, so they could get rich. Europe was more interested in finding the Passage than the actual America. It wasn't until Lewis and Clark traveled when they finally declared, "There's no Northwest Passage!"
ReplyDeleteJeremy Munoz
Many of the Spanish explorers enslaved the native people, or killed them. The natives would help them, give them exotic items, and the Spanish would still treat them horribly! Take Cortes and Francisco Pizarro for example. Cortes comes across the Aztec Empire. There leader, Moctezuma practically worships him and claims him to be a god, and Cortes captures him and takes over the capital. They kill Moctezuma and then they demolish Tenochtitlan. Pizarro finds the Inca Empire, and the same thing happens. They kill all there leaders and take over the Capital. The Incas and the Aztecs were great warriors, but they didn't have guns. They only had simple weapons. The biggest way that the Spanish took out most Native Americans though was disease. Over all, the Spanish treated the Natives like slaves.
ReplyDeleteSavannah Malstrom - 7th period
The printing press really changed the world in many ways. One way is that it kicked off the renaissance and gave everyone a sense of invention and inspired people. Another way how it changed the world is that it made a mass production of books possible. This drove down the price of books so much so that tons of people could read and talk about the things in the books and made them more educated. So you see, if the printing press was never invented, we would never have been where we are today.-Morgan Llewellyn
ReplyDeleteThe printing press made a big impact on the world. It was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450. Before 1450 books were really expensive because they had to be hand written. The invention of the printing press made the price of books of go down drastically, making it possible for all people to learn, read and get an education. The printing press also made it possible to make more bibles so the people could learn "the gospel" for themselves, so they didn't have to rely on ministers to teach them. Without the invention of the printing press so many things in our everyday lives would be different. People wouldn't have an education, and we wouldn't have books to read, which would prevent new inventions and advancements in our world.
ReplyDelete-McKenna Larsen
The North-West passage was a river that the Europeans thought went around the world to India. They looked for it so much because their previous route through the Mediterranean required an army just to get goods to and fro. The South-East passage, around Africa, was used by the Portugese, but Spain wanted their own way to India. They thought that it would be shorter, and continued to explore for it, until Lewis and Clark declared that there was no North-West passage by sailing down the rivers of America. Only then did the Europeans realize that their was no North-West passage.
ReplyDelete:Avery Hill
The printing press was a really helpful invention because people would have to write books out by hand before it was invented. Usually kings and really rich people were the only ones that could afford books because they took so long to write. After the printing press was invented books became cheaper and many other people could start to read and study whatever they wanted. They printed the bible so people that were poor could study the bible. This enabled the people not have to just rely on what the priest says but they could think about the bible on their own. The printing press changed the world and really affected the renascence period.
ReplyDelete-Elena stanley
The printing press changed the world by making books and ideas easier to spread. It also opened up higher paying jobs to average and low income people. With it so easy to make books and other reading material most people learned how to read. With a lot more people learning to read they realized their countries needed reform and they came out of the dark ages and so the world started to change rapidly.
ReplyDeleteThe printing press changed the world by making books and ideas easier to spread. It also opened up higher paying jobs to average and low income people. With it so easy to make books and other reading material most people learned how to read. With a lot more people learning to read they realized their countries needed reform and they came out of the dark ages and so the world started to change rapidly.-Daniel Harman
ReplyDelete1) The printing press changed the world by how people looked at religion. Before they had to go to the priest and have them read to them from the bible. After they invented the printing press, people were able to study the bible on their own. Infact most people didn't even have books before the press because they were very expensive. The renascence was affected by the printing press.
ReplyDelete-Marietta Lehmitz
The North West passage was supposed to be a route where you could go West on the Atlantic Ocean and make it to Eastern Asia. This route would be faster and less dangerous than any of the ways they had previously found. After much exploring by explorers from many countries it was concluded that there was no North West Passage.
ReplyDeleteJared Avery
The Northwest Passage was believed to be a water route that ran through North America. Europeans wanted to find it so that they could get a faster route to Asia going Southwest. It was later proved that there is no such thing as the Northwest passage.
ReplyDelete-Lexi Capson
The printing press changed the world, because people didn’t need to rely on the priest to teach them what was needed. They could go get a Bible and find out for themselves, and it also gave them space to think. It also took a big burden off the monks’ shoulders so they didn’t need to copy all the books one after another. It’s a good thing that it was invented or else we would be in deep water.:)
ReplyDeleteLinzie Ballard :)
The invention of the printing press was very helpful for many people because it allowed for the Bible and many short essays, explaining others' thoughts and ideas, to be printed. People were able to learn about the Bible by themselves instead of only listening to the teachings of a priest. They could read and develop their own opinions about the Bible. The invention of the printing press also allowed people the opportunity to learn how to read and write since more books were available.
ReplyDelete-Caitlin Ball
The Spanish treated the Native Americans like slaves. Since the Native Americans made up about 80%, they enslaved them. The natives were forced to do work in horrid conditions. They had to face extreme unkindness and desperate situations on a daily basis. So, basically, the Native Americans were treated like they were lower than dirt.
ReplyDelete-Losena Tauteoli pd.7
The Spanish treated the Native Americans like slaves. Since the Native Americans made up about 80%, they enslaved them. The natives were forced to do work in horrid conditions. They had to face extreme unkindness and desperate situations on a daily basis. So, basically, the Native Americans were treated like they were lower than dirt.
ReplyDelete-Losena Tauteoli pd.7
The Europeans were looking for a passage to get through America and to India. They were looking for it ever since Columbus discovered America until Marco Polo proved that there was no North West passage. Today we have a man made passage called the Panama Canal. The reason the Europeans were looking for the North West passage was because they wanted to find an easier way to get to India. They didn’t want to go around Africa or go through the Mediterranean Sea because of pirates. The North West passage was never found and doesn’t existed (that is not man mad). –Braden Young
ReplyDeleteThe Spanish treated their indians almost as bad as they treated their slaves. They also gave the right to tax local native americans ,or make them work. If they worked they were forced to work in terrible weather conditions. There was many plantations at that time and it took many workers to run them. Many of those workers were native americans. Others were forced to endure the harshness of mining for gold and silver. The forced labor killed many of the native american population.
ReplyDeleteKEVIN KOPP
The Northwest passage was searched for all throughout the age exploration, because it was supposedly a faster route to south east Asia. When the Portugese found an all water route to Asia, Spain and other countries were mad and tried to find their own route. Columbus reckoned that if he sailed Northwest, he would get to India. So he did and discovered the new world. Even though they had found a new continent, Spain and other European countries still were looking for an all water route through the America's. Later in the 1800's Lewis and Clark, finally proved that there was no such thing.
ReplyDelete-Nate Hansen
The North-West Passage was an imaginary river or water passage through North America. People were interested in this passage because a normal trip to Asia is a trip accompanied by an Army that is fighting off Pirate ships. "Lewis and Clark" were the two explorers who finally busted the myth that there was no North-West Passage. But being the intuitive Americans we are, we built one! The Panama Canal.
ReplyDeleteAustin Ramsey
The printing press had one of the greatest inventions of the early times. One of its impacts is making it easier to copy books from the original way. The original way was that the kings and lords would pay priests to copy the book by hand. Although this is the impact I think was the most affective was the newspaper. It came out years after. It helped the world come together and learn about the world around them.
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