1. 4/28 Focus: Important Terms Do Now:
Military technology and disease allowed the Spanish to quickly conquer Native people in the Americas.
Important Terms
Encomienda System
Do Now:
Identify one way that the Inca adapted to their physical geography and environment.

2. European Exploration and Imperialism in the Americas
Spain

4. The Encounter Oct. 1492 Columbus lands in the West Indies
Encounters Native Americans
Initial relations between Spanish and Native Americans were friendly
This changed when the Spanish tried to exploit Native Americans and their lands for profit

6. Motives for Spanish Imperialism
God, Gold, and Glory
God: Spanish wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity
Missionaries: priests who came to the Americas to convert Native Americans
Gold: acquire wealth for Spain
Glory: personal wealth and power

7. Conquistadors
Spanish soldiers who came to North and South America for God, Gold, Glory
Conquered native people throughout the Americas
Guns
germs (disease)
iron weapons
the horse

8. Conquistadors Hernan Cortez Explored Mexico
Conquered the Aztec Empire in 1519

9. Conquistadors Francisco Pizarro Explored south America
Destroyed the Incan Empire in 1532

10. Missions
A religious community that usually included a town, surrounding farmland, and a church

11. Spanish Colonial Economy
Treasures from the Americas!
Was based on:
mining gold and silver
Farming sugar cane on plantations

12. The Encomienda System
Forced Native Americans to pay tribute or provide labor to Spanish landowners

13. The Encomienda System
Disease and overwork killed large numbers of Native Americans
Led Spanish to start bringing slaves from Africa to work plantations

14. Bartolome de la Casas
Spanish priest who convinced the Spanish gov’t to pass a law which forbid using Indians as slaves
Led to Spain using Africans as slaves
Known as the protector of the Indians

15. The Spanish Class Structure in the Americas
Peninsulares
People born in Spain
Creoles
People born in America with Spanish parents
Mestizos
People with mixed Spanish and Native American/African parents
Mulattoes
Native Americans
African Slaves

16. Spanish Class Structure in the Americas
Peninsulares
People born in Spain; owned the land; ran gov’t
Creoles
Born to Spanish parents in the Americas
Mesitzos & Mulattoes
People with Spanish and Indian/African parents
Native Americans & Enslaved Africans

17. Spanish Government in the Americas
Spanish Viceroyalties
Spain divided it’s territory into 4 provinces
Each province run by a viceroy appointed by king

19. Closure
Identify three reasons that Spanish conquistadors came to the Americas.
What was the Encomienda System?
Why did Spain begin bringing in African slaves as labor on their plantations?