Chapter 17

Emily Bly

English

Shulush Homa

• “Red Shoes”• Choctaw leader• Befriended frence to trade• Choctaw civil war started,

when he was killed by french allies.

• Received guns and gifts that only chiefs did.

Columbian Exchange• Transfer of people, animals, plants and diseases

between the new and old worlds. • Disease entered with slaves. - small pox - mecisles - malaria - yellow fever, etc.• New world gave old world - plant dyes, medicinal plants, cotton, tabcco.

French

Indentured servents • 4-7 years of labor• Passage to the new world• Later tobacco planters purchased them for life • Slave population grew

Iroquois Confederacy

• Alliance amoung the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca

• Rich furtrade of Canada• Coureurs de boise – helped direct the

furtrade. - runners of the woods.

Spanish

Religion

• Catholic Church – primary transmission of Christian belief

• Church became richest in Spanish colonies

Slaves

• Priest Batholome de Las Casas entacted the new laws that outlawed enslavement of Amerindians

• Encomienda – forced labor of Amerindians. • Manomission – granting freedom to individual slaves.

Colonial Economies• Silver mines • Sugar plantations• Mines hurt environment but helped development of urbanization• Sugar plantations dominated Brazil by the 17th century• Slave trade developed to supply labor needs of sugar plantations.

Sugar Plantations