madison milka, sandra dybala by: kamila ignacik, natalia...
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Colonization
● Mexico● New Mexico● Florida● Occupy + settle any islands not already under control● Wealth/riches● More land● Renaissance● Reconquista
Culture
● Monarchs ● Roman Catholics ● Reconquista ● Christianity common bond that held spaniards together● Spanish Inquisition ● Attempt to convert Indians to Catholicism
Social ● Encomienda ● Social class and hierarchy ● Upper- Spaniards, Middle- racial mixing &
europeans, Lower- Africans and Indians ● Male colonists married Indian or African women
Native Americans
● Encomienda ● Viewed them as a form of labor and wanted
to convert them to one true religion ● Frontier of inclusion ● Frontier of exclusion
Economy● Based on exploitation ● Controlled the lives and labor of Indian and African workers.● Converting Indians into subjects● Agricultural● Horses used by the Spanish to tend their cattle ● Constructed the worlds most powerful empire ● Tobacco ● Sugar, rice, and coffee