Grab Bag
Where and what year did the French settle?
Settled in 1608. In Canada and Quebec.
What are Mestizos?
Children mixed of Spanish and Natives.
What does Matrilineal mean?
A society led by woman.
What was the Columbian Exhange?
Transport from America to Europe like lifestock, diseases, and crops
What was the Encomienda system?
Indian slave labor. Later was replaced by African slave.
What was the main imperial goal?
wanted to shape and developed their colonies both politically and economically
What is carvel?
A ship used to find gold/exploration.
How we're natives on the Great Plains and Great Basin different from Iroquois natives?
The Iroquois being matriarchal, they had natural resources and they built mounds.
What 2 diseases where brought from the Columbian Exchange?
Measels and smallpox
What where Natives forced to do in the Comienda System?
Forced into labor to support plantation-based agriculture and get precious metals and natural resources.
What were the 2 religions that were spread during European Exploration?
Catholicism and Christianity
What was Las Casa's Ideology?
Natives weren't barbarians
How did Natives adapt?
Had innovations in agriculture.
What 2 metals where the main focus for European wealth?
Gold and silver
Who got enslaved after the Natives where somewhat freeded?
Africans
What encouraged European Exploration?
Religious and economic motivations (the need for natural resources, land, and wealth)
What is the Caste System?
Social Hierarchy of races passed down
What was the main reason for european explanation?
It was to expand econmically, wealth, and to spread religious ideas.
What crop was most spread in Mexico?
Maize
What groups benefited from encomiendas?
The spanish and European.
What tribe was a matriarchy?
Iroquois
what was Juan Gines de Sepulveda ideology?
Natives are barbarian savages who are uneducated that need European help to civilize.
What is the Atlantic economy?
Stock markets and global economies
Was the Columbian exchange positive or negative ?
The columbian exchange was both postive and negetive. The diseases made a negative impacted wiping out 90% of Native Americans. While goods and ideas where discovered.
What led to the downfall of the Encomienda System?
Catholics protested because of the harsh treament toward the natives.