Studied by 17 PeopleTags & Description
Prince Henry
________ the Navigator- works for Portugal, wants to use Atlantic Ocean, goes around Africa.
Sepulveda
________- argues that Natives are less than human, benefit from the labor.
Big Idea
________- Natives of American continents were a diverse people that had diverse societies based on the environments they lived in.
Pantheists Animists
________- Believe in natural world filled with spirits.
Hernan Cortes
________ shows up at Tenochtitlan with only around 1000 men, were 200- 400 thousand Natives.
Mercantilism
________- Depends on heavy government intervention.
Political Unification
________- centralized governments led by monarchs.
Europe
________ was mainly defined by Feudalism, work for nobles for protection.
Criollos
________- Spanish, but born in Americas.
Minerals
________- Spanish plunder the Native American tribes for silver and gold, transforms their wealth- makes them really rich.
Joint Stock Companies
________- new model of funding, limited liability organization in which a plurality of investors pool their money to fund a venture Labor Systems /Societal Restructuring in Americas.
Peninsulares
________- Spanish and born in Spain.
Hispanola
________- Arawak and Taino People lost 300, 000 people.
Encomienda System
________- Encomenderos (leading men) granted land, all natives that lived there are labor force, justified on religious grounds.
Spanish
________ make a caste system so that they can tax people at the bottom more.
