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America before Columbus: social and economic structures of native populations |
As the colonies people population increased, the Natives population diminished because of epidemic disease cause by the new colony |
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The Columbian Exchange |
the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian. |
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The Doctrine of Discovery |
well-established idea in the Christian world to conquer land and spread Christianity. |
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Encomienda system established |
created by the Spanish to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior |
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Religious battles in the New world |
Christians goals in the New World was to convert Natives into Christianity |
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Atlantic Slave Trade |
The trade passage between The Americas, Africa, and Europe. Traded manufactured goods - raw materials - Africans. |
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Tobacco - cash crop |
High demand, required a great deal of labor, and quickly exhausted the soil. |
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Jamestown, Virginia |
First Europeans settle on this land. |
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Indentured Servants |
In exchange for the cost of their transportation, men/women payed work and payed their way out. |
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The Great Awakening |
Religion revival in colonial America in the 1740s. |