10th Grade Fall Review

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Spanish soldiers who were central to the conquest of the civilizations of the Americas. Once conquest was complete, they often extracted wealth from the people they came to rule.

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Conquistadores

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Brutal transatlantic voyage of slaves endured between Africa and the American colonies.

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Middle Passage

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The exchange of good, crops, and diseases between the Americas (New World) and Europe and Africa (Old World).

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Columbian Exchange

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American Indian peoples who lived in present-day New Mexico and Arizona and built permanent multi-story adobe dwellings.

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Pueblo

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Spanish government's policy to give Native Americans to colonists to provide labor and to be converted to Christianity. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue native tribes.

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Encomienda System

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An economic system based on government regulation that controlled colonial commerce and manufacturing for the enrichment of the mother country.

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Mercantilism

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Dominican friar who supported peaceful conversion of Nation Americans, advocated for Native American rights, and opposed the harsh treatment and forced labor of Native Americans.

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Bartolome de Las Casas

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One factor not responsible for European expansion into the Western Hemisphere was: desire for economic expansion, desire to expand Christianity, better shipbuilding and navigational tools.

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democratization of European society

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North American Native American tribes were greatly varied in lifestyle and economic systems.

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were greatly varied in lifestyle and economic systems

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The encomienda system primarily relied on labor from

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American Indians