New Worlds: the Americas and Oceania
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Study Guide 3
Bentley, chapter 24
New Worlds: the Americas and Oceania
1. Colliding Worlds – three worlds meet
2. The Spanish Conquest of the Caribbean
3. Disease/Smallpox
4. Encomienda system – From Mining to Plantation Agriculture
5. The Conquest of Mexico and Peru
6. Hernan Cortes
7. Francisco Pizarro
8. Iberian Empires in the Americas 9. Spanish Colonial Administration
10. New Cities
11. Portuguese Brazil
a. Native peoples
b. Sugar and slavery
12. Colonial American Society
a. Social hierarchy
b. Peninsulares and creoles (criollos)
c. Mesizo societies
d. Sexual hierarchies
13. Mining and Agriculture in the Spanish Empire a. The hacienda
b. Labor systems
14. Resistance to Spanish Rule
15. Settler Colonies in North America/North American Societies
a. The Spanish
a.i. Missions and forts
a.ii. Buffer zones in the north
a.iii. Relations with indigenous peoples
a.iv. Indigenous religions and Christianity
b. The French b.i. Missionaries and fur traders
b.ii. Relations with indigenous peoples e.g., Virgin de Guadalupe
c. The English
c.i. Tobacco
c.ii. Unfree labor/indentured servitude
c.iii. Settler expansion
c.iv. African slavery
16. Relations with Indigenous Peoples
a. Primary point of conflict
b. Fur trade and its effects
17. Europeans in the Pacific
a. Dutch exploration b. British colonies
c. Spanish Voyages and colonialism
18. Pacific Islanders
19. Captain Cook and Hawaii