1. Bell Ringer
What is the Columbian Exchange? Where does it get its name from? How significant has it been in shaping the world today?

2. Gold, God, Glory
Caravel
Astrolabe
Henry the Navigator
Vasco Da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan
Conquistador
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Disease
Colonies
Columbian Exchange
Northwest Passage
Circumnavigate

3. Spanish Colonial America
Essential Question: How did Spanish conquest create a new social structure in the Americas?

4. Mercantilism
Economic principle that argued: the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver
Money = Power
Export(sell) more than import(buy)
Colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country

5. Encomienda System
Spanish landowners had the right, as granted by the monarch, to use Native Americans as laborers (forced labor)
Mita
Labor system used in the Spanish in Peru that allowed them to draft native people to work
Who else used this system in Peru?

6. Because many natives died due to disease and overwork there was a need for another system or source of labor.

7. The Atlantic Slave Trade
To fill need for labor Europeans bought slaves from African trade kingdoms
Middle passage - the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
Estimated 11 million enslaved Africans crossed the middle passage
Many, many more died.

9. Effects of the Slave Trade
Increased warfare in Africa
Depopulated many regions
Slave trade not abolished until the 19th century

10. Social Structure of Spanish America
Worth was determined by European blood
Peninsulares – lived in the Americas, born in Europe
Held the highest status
Creoles – descendant of Europeans, born in Americas
Jealous of the power of the peninsulares
Mestizos – mix of European and Native parents
Mulattoes – mix of European and African parents

12. Essential Question
How did Spanish conquest create a new social structure in the Americas?

13. Review
Labor system established by the Inca but eventually used by the Spanish in order to force the natives to work.

14. Review
Part of the social structure of Spanish Colonial America defined by people with mixed blood (Spanish and Native)

15. Review
The specific part of the new global trade network that saw the shipment of millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.

16. Review
Economic ideology that dictated a country’s power was determined by its gold and silver.

17. Diary Entry – Middle Passage
Write a diary entry from the perspective of an enslaved African
Entry 1 – Capture
Entry 2 – Journey on the Middle Passage
Entry 3 – Arrival / Conditions in the Americas