1. 6 October 2014
Do now: Have a writing utensil out and piece of paper (half sheet or less). Listen to the audio from Equanio’s autobiography. Write down 2-4 specifics regarding is enslavement and the Middle Passage.
Today, I will review and discuss the following topics: The Columbian Exchange, Early Spanish Settlements, and Slave Trade.
Your Quiz on: The Columbian Exchange, Spanish Colonies, and Slave trade will be on Tuesday 7 October 2014 (Study).

2. The Columbian Exchange
“The New World” “The Old World” The Americas Europe

3. Movement How people, ideas, or goods get from one place to another.
Movement of people: Voluntary and Involuntary
Movement of Ideas: Cultural Diffusion, occurs via interaction with new people.
Movement of goods: Imports and Exports.

4. Eurocentrism
European
Culture
All All other cultures

5. Spanish Goals
Pre-Columbus: Establish a new (quicker) trade route to India.
After Columbus: Establish permanent profitable colonies in the “Indies”, extract wealth and resources to fuel further conquest.
Conquistadors (Cortes conquered the Aztecs, Pizarro conquered the Incas, de Leon sought the “fountain of youth”) and Missionaries = convert people to Catholicism.

6. Social Organization in the 1st Spanish colonies
Peninsulares:
Creoles:
Mestizos:
Indians:
Africans

7. Encomiendas: Right or Wrong
What’s an ecomiendas?

8. What information can we gain from the line graph?

9. Why does African enslavement increase?
New European colonies are being established globally.
There’s a need for a permanent labor force.
The more colonies that are established the more wealth is generated, thus the need for more slaves.
African slavers are profiting greatly and receiving European goods in exchange for slaves.

11. Life on the Middle Passage
Consult Equanio (77), Newton (531), and Falconbridge (531) accounts.

12. History of Slavery