Chapter 19+20 GSPRITE

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?)