Tranatlantic Encounters
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- The Columbian Exchange took place between what groups of people?
- Native Americans and European explorers.
- The Conquistadors became infamous throughout the Americas for what 3 defining traits?
- The Conquistadors were characterized by there drive for material wealth, personal glory, and devotion to the Catholic faith.
- Compared with their Anglo-Saxon rivals, the Spanish settlements in the Americas were larger, richer, and lasted more than a century longer. What difference in colinization strategy may account for this?
- More than 400,000 Spaniards migrated to the Americas by 1650. Many of them men, married Native American women, fusing the two cultures.
- The Treaty of Tordesillas split the new world along a North/South line promising all land west of that line to what country?
- Spain
- This system, desinged by the Spanish to reward conquistadors and colonial rulers, was one of the first forms of slavery in the new world.
- The Encomienda System
- The French explored these two major waterways providing them with substainable ports for their trade network.
- The St. Lawrence Seaway and the Mississippi River
- The French viewed Native Americans as necessary economic partners in the trade of this item.
- Fur, especially Beaver pelts.
- The English began exploring the North Atlantic in the latter part of the 15th century in search of better fishing areas and the fabled shorter route to the Orient called__________________.
- The Nortwest Passage
- This 16th century religious movement to reform and challenge the spiritual authority of the Roman Catholic Church delayed England's entry in the New World.
- The Protestant Reformation
- This disease was passed from explorers and early colonizers to Native Americans through the trade of goods, such as blankets.
- Small Pox.