Vocab

How were the Natives different from one other

Different environments shaped their agriculture, resource use, and social structure.

What did Europeans do to natives (changes)

Social, political and cultural change

Columbian exchange

1492 trade of resource, innovation, cattle

Maize

Cause social diversity because maize change cultural, resource and econ development and advancements

Great plain and basin

Mobile lifestyle , hunt and gather,

NW

Hunting and gathering and fishing

NE

Mixed agriculture and hunt and gathering

Why exploration in America

GGG and crusades ( want to establish trade routes E - but went W instead )

Joint stock Company

People pay for a share which helps colonization and exploitation

Encomienda system

Slavery of natives ( first established for convert and labor )

Caste system

1. Pure Spanish ( born in Spain )

2. Spanish ( born by Spanish parents)

3. ½ Spanish ( Spanish with natives )

4. ½ Spanish ( Spanish with African )

5. Pure native or African or half

Spanish and natives differ because

Divergent world views ; gender roles, family , religion, land use , power

European and native relations

Traded and sought to make sense of one other and overtime adopted useful aspects of each other. Then euro got greedy and encroached on the natives land ( demand for labor increased ) = natives defending their sovereignty and freedom by diplomatic negotiations and military resistance