Latin America Colonization

What was one of the reasons for European expansion into the New World?

• They wanted gold to help improve their GDP

• They wanted to colonize land to defeat Napoleon

• Cheap and steadily available labor force to work in sugar cane plantations and haciendas

• Europeans wanted to convert indigenous populations into Christians

What decimated the indigenous populations in South America during the European expansion to the new World?

• Too many indigenous populations were being sold into slavery

• The indigenous populations did not have immunities to European diseases such as small pox.

• The indigenous populations were forced to fight in the French and Indian War

• The indigenous populations had more deaths than births

The importation of indigenous people by the Spanish and Portuguese became known as what?

• Columbian Exchange

• Portuguese Revolution

• Spanish Revolution

• Transatlantic Slave trade

Why did the Spanish and Portuguese bring black Africans to the Americans?

• The indigenous populations of Latin America were decimated (destroyed) due to disease

• Their religion required them to convert all immigrants

• It was much faster to acquire black Africans than indigenous people

• They wanted to increase the standard of living of black Africans

What still prevails today in South American countries such as Cuba and Brazil form the African Slave Trade?

• Slavery still exists in many parts of South and Central America today

• Many of the haciendas that the Spanish and Portuguese used are still in use today

• Intermarriages among the Spanish and Portuguese ancestry peoples and black Africans which resulted in a new cultural identity in Latin America today

• Many of the descendants form the Black Africans still work in gold and diamond mines

What religion did European explorers bring with them during the colonization of the New World?

• Christianity

• Islam

• Judaism

• Mormonism

The enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans

• BRICS

• Naturalization

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Internment

Term referring to the native peoples of a particular place

• incognito

• inconsequential

• indigenous

• ingenious

Movements of peoples, agricultural commodities, diseases, and cultures between the Old World and the new World

• Colombian Exchange

• The Arabian Exchange

• The South American Exchange

• The Great Exchange

Which of the following is NOT a long term effect of the Columbian Exchange?

• New crops introduced
• Majority of Latin Americans are Catholic
• Majority of people in Europe speak Spanish
• New animals introduced