Chapter 2: Colliding Cultures

Netherlands

The built its colonial empire through the work of experienced merchants and skilled sailors.

Church of England

The Puritans believed that the did not distance itself enough from Catholicism and also believed in predestination.

Oñate

led the sacking of the Pueblo city of Acoma (the "sky city), "with the Spaniards slaughtering nearly half of its- 1500 inhabitants.

Juan Ponce de León

arrived in the area of La Florida in 1513 and oversaw the decimation of Floridas indigenous population (via war, slave raids, or foreign disease)

English mercantilism

was a state- assisted manufacturing and trading system that created and maintained markets.

Juan de Oñate

In 1598, led 400 men into New Mexico, marking the bloody beginning of the Spanish Southwest.

Acoma

Juan de Oñate led the sacking of _, a Pueblo cite

Missionaries

_ were the engine of colonization in North America

Black Legend

A _ is a sustained trend of biased reporting and writing directed at one person, group or entity

French colonization

___ was marked by their cooperating with indigenous people

Platoon system

The _ system granted estates to wealthy landlords in order to encourage colonization

Treaty of Tordesillas

The divided the New World between Portugal and Spain

Tordesillas Meridian

The _ was an imaginary line dividing South America

Sugar and the slave trade

_ were the two industries that powered early colonization of Brazil

Quilombos

Portuguese slaves who escaped captivity would create free settlements known as __

English mercantilism

was a state-assisted manufacturing and trading system that was created and maintained markets

English colonization

_ was marked by colonizers seizing land through violence and pushing out inhabitants

Puritans

_ believed that the Church of England did not distance itself enough from Catholicism and also believed in predestination