World History Chapter 25
Traditions & Encounters: World History AP Chapter 25 New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania McGraw-Hill.com)
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- Mestizo
- Person of MIXED Spanish and Indian descent
- The most valuable commodity for the Spanish in the Americas was
- Minerals like silver and gold.
- The English settlements in North America grew slowly at first because
- The first English settlements did not prepare sufficient food crops.
- One significant difference in the administration of English colonies compared to their Spanish counterparts was
- English colonies were often financed by private investors, who retained control over colonial affairs.
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- In colonial governments, the power of the Spanish viceroy was kept in check by this authority.
- How did European settlers in North America legally justify seizing lands from native North American peoples?
- The settlers negotiated treaties.
- The following WERE significant factors in Cortés's defeat of the Aztec empire?
- A devastating SMALLPOX epidemic. SUPERIOR Spanish technology. RESENTMENT of many indigenous peoples to Aztec rule.
- Indentured servants who worked off their contracts in the colonies often
- Hoped to become independent artisans or planters.
- The first explorers to Australia were not interested in settlement because
- The first explorers only explored the barren western coast of Australia.
- How did Portugal gain an empire in Brazil?
- The Treaty of Tordesillas, designed to divide the Atlantic between Spain and Portugal, unintentionally granted Brazil to Portugal.
- Why did the production of sugar differ from that of other agricultural commodities of the western hemisphere?
- Sugarcane required extensive processing to turn it into a profitable export.
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- New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania
- The MITA system?
- USED by the Spanish at Potosi. HAD been used by the Inca. LED to high rates of death among workers. AFFECTED a large portion of the indigenous population.
- How did the mining industries of the Americas stimulate global economic growth?
- The Spanish QUITO circulated throughout European and Asian markets.
- Encomienda system.
- LABOR system that dominated on haciendas of Spanish America.
- Tainos
- The first indigenous people that the Spanish empire dispossessed of their lands and forced into labor.
- What was Doña Marina's role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs?
- She could speak several native languages and served as an interpreter.
- Typical Results of the North American fur trade.
- INTENSE competition and even warfare between indigenous peoples for European trade. INTENSE competition between French, Dutch, and English fur traders. DECIMATION of the beaver population in North America. INTRODUCTION of European manufactured goods to indigenous peoples.
- Criollos differed from peninsulares only in that
- CRIOLLOS were born in the WESTERN hemisphere and not the eastern hemisphere.
- Why were the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and South America more likely to accept Christianity than the peoples of North America were?
- North American Indians were more geographically scattered and so harder for missionaries to reach.
- Encomienda system
- The labor system that compelled Indians to work in Spanish mines and fields in exchange for protection and Christian conversion.