Worlds Collide - New vs Old
A massive transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Americas, Europe, and Africa beginning in the 1490s.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Large feudal land grants given to Spanish Conquistadors and settlers who oversaw and organized the labor of settlers and American Indians, as well as were given the task of Christianizing the populations.
What is the Encomienda System?
The first permanent English colony established on the East Coast of the Americas in 1607
What is Jamestown?
The most dominant tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Who are the Mohawk Tribe?
European settlers who signed labor contracts to pay for transportation to the New World. These contracts typically lasted 5-7 years and included ‘freedom dues’ at the end of service.
Who are indentured servants?
Crops such as tobacco, cacao, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and pumpkins.
What are New World foods?
They were soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who conquered and colonized parts of the Americas.
What are conquistadors?
The name for the American Empire stretching from the tip of South America to the Oregon Country; and from California to Florida and beyond to the Caribbean Sea.
What is New Spain?
Those of the mixed Native American and Spanish heritage.
Who are Mestizos?
These are taxes on imported goods - were used to discourage citizens from purchasing imported goods from rival countries.
What are tariffs?
Agricultural production such as rice, coffee, wheat, okra, and livestock.
What are Old World foods?
The individual ranches, mines, and plantations on feudal land grants
What are haciendas?
This colony was established with missions and trade posts near local indian tribes like the Huron and Algonquianin in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River regions.
What is New France?
‘Per capita, the bloodiest war in American history. Many Indian villages and colonial settlements were destroyed. Most of the New England tribes aligned with one side or the other.
What is King Philip's War?
One of the most lucrative endeavors American Indians could pursue with Europeans.
What is the fur trade?
Diseases such as measles, smallpox, and influenza.
What are Old World diseases?
Spanish colonists born in Spain.
Who are Peninsulares?
These was an area of established colonial trade posts and centers of commerce such as New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in 1624 (known today as New York City).
What is New Netherlands?
A series of conflicts between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Algonquin and Huron peoples in the 1600s.
What are the Beaver Wars?
An economic process that sent European finished goods to Africa in trade for slaves, slaves to the Americas in trade for raw materials, and, then, raw materials to Europe in trade for finished goods.
What is Triangular Trade or Atlantic System?
Disease such as syphilis.
What is a New World disease?
Spanish colonists born in the Americas.
Who are criollos?
This colony was established in the area of modern day New Jersey and included trade posts and centers of commerce.
What is New Sweden?
A society in which ancestral names were passed on from the female line. Women held a primary role in society and tribal politics, as well as were responsible for agriculture.
What is a Matriarchal Society?
An economic system of strict national control of trade with severe limits on imports while promoting exports. The goal is to accumulate vast sums of gold and silver at the expense of rival nations.
What is mercantilism?