THE NEW WORLD SPANISH PORTUGUESE AND BRITISH COLONIALISM

THE NEW WORLD: SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND BRITISH COLONIALISM IN THE AMERICAS

THE CONQUISTADORS CAME FOR GOD, GOLD AND GLORY! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

KING FERDINAND QUEEN ISABLLA OF SPAIN

SPAIN AND THE CONQUISTADORS WANTED TO CONVERT EVERYONE TO CATHOLICISM. AND WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU IF YOU DIDN’T BECOME CATHOLIC?

AND OF COURSE, THEY WERE MISSIONARIES WHO WANTED TO SPREAD THE WORD OF JESUS

GOLD AND GLORY

AND THEY WON BECAUSE OF GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

SMALLPOX

THE MUSTANG AND OTHER HORSES, WHICH THE AZTECS AND THE INCAS THOUGHT WERE LARGE DOGS. WOOF!

WHAT DID THE SPANISH DO WITH SOUTH AMERICA AFTER THEY CONQUERED IT? THEY EITHER ENSLAVED EVERYONE OR THEY IMPLEMENTED THE MITA SYSTEM?

THE INCAN MITA SYSTEM

THE SILVER MINES OF BOLIVIA, MEXICO AND PERU

THE SPANISH CASTE SYSTEM IN THE AMERICAS: THE ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM

PENINSULARES: PEOPLE WHO CAME OVER FROM SPAIN CREOLES: THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAD SPANISH PARENTS BUT WHO WERE BORN IN THE NEW WORLD MESTIZO: SPANISH MEN AND INDIAN WOMEN MULATTOES: SPAMISH MEN WITH SLAVE WOMEN NATIVE INDIANS (AZTECS AND INCAS) THE BOTTOM: SLAVES

THE POPULATION OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS: 60 -80 MILLION THE POPULATION OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA AFTER COLUMBUS: 10 MILLION THE AZTECS OF CENTRAL MEXICO: 10 MILLION TO 1 MILLION

BRAZIL WAS DIFFERENT FO SEVERAL REASONS: 80% OF ALL SLAVES WENT TO BRAZIL. WHY? 1. IT DIDN’T HAVE ANY GOLD OR SILVER, JUST SUGAR! AND WE KNOW THAT SUGAR PLANTATION DEMANDED A LOT OF ……. . SLAVES! 2. THEY ALSO DIDN’T HAVE THE AZTECS OR THE INCAS SO THERE WERE NO NATIVE INDIANS TO PUT TO WORK! BUT………………. 1. A LOT MOR RACIAL MIXING AND A LOT MORE MULATTOES 2. MANY SLAVES WERE SET FREE IN BRAZIL 3. THERE WAS NOT AS MUCH DISCRIMATION AS A RESULT

COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE

COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE: THE EUROPEANS BROUGHT HORSES, COWS, PIGS AND GOATS THE AMERICANS SENT CORN, POTATOES, AND PUMPKINS THE EUROPEANS BROUGHT SMALL POX WE GAVE THEM SQUASH

An important reason for China’s rapid population increase in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was (A) the introduction of new crops from the Americas (B) the end of the bubonic plague in Asia (C) the widespread adoption of the European three-field system (D) unprecedented immigration from the Mughal and Ottoman empires

THE POPULATION OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS: 60 -80 MILLION THE POPULATION AFTER COLUMBUS: 10 MILLION

THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

Between 1500 and 1866, this trade in humankind took an estimated 12. 5 million people from African societies, shipped them across the Atlantic in the infamous Middle Passage, and deposited some 10. 7 million of them in the Americas, where they lived out their often brief lives as slaves. About 1. 8 million died during the Atlantic crossing.

B O T O C AC

AFRICANS SOLD MANY SLAVES AS WELL

Which of the following would be the most useful source of evidence for research about the profits of Portuguese and British slave traders in the period 1600– 1800 ? (A) Portuguese and British tax records (B) Narratives of slaves transported to the Americas (C) European slave traders’ account books (D) Journals of African slave traders

QUESTION 44

QUES. 51

69. Which of the following accurately describes the Mongol Empire’s role in facilitating trans-Eurasian trade? (A) It imposed Mongol religious beliefs and practices on conquered peoples. (B) It reestablished the Silk Roads between East Asia and Europe. (C) It created a self-contained economic system by banning non-Mongol merchants from its territories. (D) It developed a sophisticated bureaucracy staffed by talented Mongols.

SPAIN, ON THE OTHER HAND, ONLY WANTED TO EXPLOIT SOUTH AMERICA IN THE NAME OF MERCANTILISM: 1: THE MOTHER COUNTRY WILL RAPE THE COLONY OF ALL NATURAL RESOURCES 2. THE COLONY WILL HAVE TO BUY EVERYTHING FROM THE MOTHER COUNTRY 3. THE COLONY CANNOT AND WILL NOT TRADE WITH ANYONE ELSE.