Africa- Spanish Explorers

The 'slave coast' was known as which region in Africa.

• Southern

• Northern

• Sahara

• West Coast

Enslaved Africans in the Americas

• went to school.

• worked hard for pay.

• were denied all freedoms.

• were always treated fairly.

What was life like in Africa before the Columbian Exchange?

• African society and culture was based on family living and working together.

• African culture was exactly like the native people of the Americas.

• Africans did not live together and roamed the land alone.

• Africans were explorers looking for new land.

The Spanish explorer Hernando Desoto's main goal in the Americas was to

• trade with the Indians.

• find gold.

• start a colony.

• convert the natives to his religion.

Before the sixteenth century, Africans made a living

• mining, hunting, and exploring for money.

• farming, mining, and making crafts for trade.

• mining, making crafts, and making cars.

• farming, working in factories, and hunting for trade.

How did the Spanish treat the native people they encountered?

• didn't interact with them at all.

• they treated them with respect (traded, learned their language).

• they were cruel to them (slavery, killed them, forced them to work).

Most Spanish explorers

• respected the native people.

• harmed the native people.

• took advantage of the native people.

• both harmed and took advantage of the native people.