Studied by 17 people
Spain
________ and Portugal formed colonies that used Native American and African slave labor in agriculture and mining.
native population
God: convert the ________ to Christianity.
Animism
________: belief that non- human things (plants, animals) possess a spiritual essence.
Mercantilism
________: colonies exist to enrich the Mother country.
Encomienda System
________: Spanish colonists received land with native people.
Mulatto
________: people of mixed white and black ancestry.
Southwest
________ (Pueblo): lived in arid land and relied on irrigation to grow maize & other agricultural products.
Mestizo
________: people of mixed Indian and European heritage.
Juan de SepĂșlveda
________ wrote "Just Causes for War Against the Indians "that justified Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Bartolomé de las Casas
________ published in 1552 "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies "that criticized Spanish treatment of the indigenous people.
Native Americans
________ developed a wide variety of social, political, and economic structures based upon interactions with each other and the environment.
Spain
________ was the earliest to colonize North America (St. Augustine, 1565)
Animism
belief that non-human things (plants, animals) possess a spiritual essence
Southwest (Pueblo)
lived in arid land and relied on irrigation to grow maize & other agricultural products
Great Basin & Great Plains (Lakota Sioux)
lack of natural resources led to growth of nomadic lifestyle & the importance of hunting buffalo
Atlantic coast & Northeast (Iroquois)
mix of agricultural & hunter-gatherer society
3 Gs
Gold, Glory, God
Gold
New sources of wealth (trade with Asia)
Glory
power &status
God
convert the native population to Christianity
Columbian Exchange
Trans-Atlantic exchange of people, diseases, food, trade, ideas, etc
Encomienda System
Spanish colonists received land with native people
Mestizo
people of mixed Indian and European heritage
Mulatto
people of mixed white and black ancestry
Mercantilism
colonies exist to enrich the Mother country
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