1. Ch. 15 EUROPEAN COLONIES IN S. AMERICA

2.  Draw a diagram explaining the Encomienda System BELLRINGER ACTIVITY

3. Explorers Conquistadores Missionaries Permanent Settlers Official European Colony! CYCLE OF CONQUEST TO COLONIZATION

4. EUROPEAN EMPIRES IN THE AMERICAS

5.  Spain tried to control from abroad  Communication difficulty  Creation of Viceroys CONTROL BY THE CROWN

6.  1. Spanish practice of securing an adequate and cheap labor supply = FEUDALISM (But in reality was slavery)  “granted” to deserving subjects of the King  2. Conquistador controlled Indian populations  Required Indians to pay tribute from their land or employ as laborers  Indians often rendered personal services as well.  3. In return the conquistador was obligated to  protect his wards  instruct them in the Christian faith  defend their right to use the to live off the land  4. Encomienda system eventually decimated Indian population.  Fell victim to diseases of the Old World  Died from exhaustion and malnutrition ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM

7.  “To these quiet Lambs… came the Spaniards like most cruel Tygres, Wolves and Lions, enrag’d with a sharp and tedious hunger; for these forty years past, minding nothing else but the slaughter of these unfortunate wretches.” ~Bartolome De Las Casas  Las Casas and other missionaries asserted that the Amerindians had human rights  In 1531, Charles V abolished the worst abuses of the encomienda system. REFORMS

8.  Slavery was not new to the world at this time  So how did African slavery take root in South and then North America?  As the Amerindians died off, the Europeans needed to find an alternative workforce  In Africa, local leaders sold blacks from enemy states to the Europeans SLAVERY

9. TRIANGULAR TRADE

10.  Transporting Africans to slave markets in the Americas.  Called the Middle Passage because it was the second of the three-part Triangle Trade route.  About twelve million Africans were transported between 1600 and 1800. About three million died. MIDDLE PASSAGE

11.  Closing Question:  Using support from the book and your notes, explain how the colonization of South America affected the global economy. 8+ lines  Homework:  Finish the explorer project  Due Monday, September 22 CLOSING QUESTION & HOMEWORK