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The Earth and Its Peoples Chapter Seventeen Reading Guide I. Vocabulary: Be sure to include significance of the term!!! Bartolome de las Casas Columbian Exchange
Creoles encomienda
French/Indian War (Seven Years War) House of Burgesses
Indentured servants mestizo
mita Mulatto
Pilgrims Potosi
Puritans Tupac Amaru II II. Answer: 1. How did European market demand for natural resources and forest products affect the relationship of Amerindian peoples with each other and with their environment? .
2. What were the demographic and biological effects of the Columbian exchange?
3 How and why did the colonial administrations of Spanish and Portuguese colonies differ from those established by the English colonies in North America?
4. What different forms of labor organization developed in the various New World colonies? What factors explain the development of different forms of labor organization and the transition from one form to another?
5. How did the racial and social makeup of colonial Latin America change after 1530? How was it before 1530 and how was it after 1530? What factors influenced these changes? III. Mapping: Indicate the following on the map. Be sure to clearly show differences between Spanish and Portuguese colonies and label colonies as of 1755. Include the dates of their founding.
Viceroyalty of New Viceroyalty of New Viceroyalty of Brazil Viceroyalty of Peru Viceroyalty of Rio de Spain Granada la Plata
Audienceia de Chile British Colonies French Colonies Spanish Colonies Russian Colonies
IV. Thesis: Write a thesis statement only answering ONE of the following questions. Identify which question you are answering. 1. Compare and contrast the labor systems put into place by European colonial powers in the Americas during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. 2. Choose any two of the following mother countries: England, Portugal, France, and Spain. Analyze how each colonizing country affected the character of its colonial empire in America. For example, how did the policies and attitudes of the Spanish people and government affect Spanish America? 3. Analyze the racial and social makeup of colonial Latin America. What sphere of influence did each class have, and how did the classes interact?