apush time period 1

pre Columbia America

diverse culture & wide range of native Americans due to their region

Christopher colombus

italian sailor who asked France and Isabel Ferdinand to sponsor his sail to go west and find wealth for Spain in asian markets.

Colombian Exchange

resources/ goods brought from Spain to the new world and the new world to spain

What was a major factor of the Colombian Exchange and why?

Small pox because it was a disease brought from Spain to the new world. This disease decimated about 95% of native Americans because they didn’t have immunity

Encomienda System

A labor system instituted by the Spanish Crown during the colonization of the Americas, where Spanish adventurers and settlers were granted the legal right to extract labor from indigenous populations

Valliod Debate

An argument presented in the 1550s focusing on the treatment and rights of indigenous peoples in the Americas, notably between Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda