Slavery in Practice
These large farms were worked by slaves in order to produce a large, profitable cash crop.
What are plantations?
These were lands settled by Europeans for the purpose of extracting raw resources for the use of their home nation.
What are colonies?
This Empire thrived in Central America until the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This nation would colonize much of what is now known as Brazil.
These communities were set up for the religious and cultural education of the Native Americans.
What are missions?
This was the sea route that slaves traveled from Africa to America.
What is the Middle Passage?
This economic system insisted that a nation could become great by exporting (selling) as many goods as possible while importing (buying) as few goods as possible, thus becoming wealthy and able to dominate other nations.
What is mercantilism?
This nation was the first European nation to establish a sea-based trade route around Africa and into India.
What is Portugal?
This nation would colonize much of South, Central, and western North America
What is Spain?
Unfortunately, Christianity was also used by colonial empires to make native populations better these?
The first African slaves reached the New World in this year.
what is 1518?
European slavery was this type of slavery, meaning slaves were property that could be bought, inherited, or disposed of at will.
What is Chattel Slavery?
This man would be the first European explorer to reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
This system granted Spanish explorers the "right" to a certain amount of native Americans for the purpose of forced labor.
What is Encomienda?
This many slaves are estimated to have been brought to the Americas during the life of the slave trade.
What is 10-15 million?
What is trade with powerful African kingdoms.
The Spanish explorers became known by this motto that express their supposed three-fold goals.
What is "God, gold, and glory"?
These are two of the ways in which European colonial practices hurt the America Environment.
What are:
- Overgrazing of cattle
or
- Deforestation for lumber and fuel
or
- Soil depletion due to overplanting
This man is remembered as one of the first Europeans to advocate for Native American human rights.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas
The triangle trade network linked these three locations.
What are Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
This is the process by which Europeans made slavery possible, despite the Christian belief that man is made in God's image
What is dehumanization?
This trade network between the old and new world radically changed the biological diversity of the world, bringing new plants, animals, and diseases between continents.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These 4 classes, listed in order from highest to lowest, formed the social structure of Spanish and Portuguese colonial life.
Many Spanish thinkers appealed to this Greek Philosopher to argue that some humans were just slaves by nature.
Who is Aristotle?