Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Chapter 19+20 GSPRITE Review


Geography
First colonies in the Americas?
First major production zone-Brazil
Treaty of Tordesillas
Territorial differences between Spanish and Portuguese empires
Middle Passage

Social
Bartolome de las casas
Conquistadors
Why were many Native American leaders allowed to maintain power?
Slavery-what percent of pop in Brazil?
Social structure of new world
Slavery in Europe around 1450?
How many slaves sent to new world?  Why so many?
North American vs. South American colonies
Were slave rebellions common?

Political
Pizzaro
Cortez
Lawyers in the new world?  What purpose did they serve?
audencias
How did the slave trade help African empires?

Religious
Christianity dominate

Intellectual/Technology
Technological advantages of the Spanish over the Native American

Economic
Commercial systems of Spanish and Portuguese (how they got money)
Encomiendas-Why was this system eventually eliminated?
Agrarian (agricultural) economy with main economic activity of mining
Inflation
African Trade forts or factories
Triangular trade
Trans-Saharan vs. Trans-Atlantic trade (impact on Africa?) (was it profitable?)

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