Quiz 2 over ch. 2 – Flashcards

Within a single generation of Columbus's death, Spanish conquistador's

While Spain began to exert its power on the other side of the Atlantic, the Portuguese

An African known as Estevan and enslaved by the Spanish

English colonizing ventures in the New World differed from previous Spanish and Portuguese efforts in that English attempts were

Why did the African slave trade begin?

The first English attempts to colonize on Roanoke Island in the 1580s

Most African slaves sent to the Americas were

Spanish and Portuguese explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

After spending 70 years working to convert the Pueblo people, Franciscan friars

The first colony organized around slave labor was Portugal's

Christopher Columbus believed he had landed in Asia rather than the Western Hemisphere in 1492.

John Calvin's teachings implied that the highest born and most privileged on earth were doomed to burn in hell while the lowest were predestined for salvation.

Brazil under Portuguese control became one of the most profitable colonies of the Americas.

Probably the most important and valued region of the Spanish Empire in the Americas was the northern borderlands, the present-day Sun Belt of the United States.

Thousands of Aztecs in Mexico died from a smallpox epidemic brought by the English in 1520.

Of all the people arriving in the New World from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Africans were by far the most numerous, probably outnumbering Europeans two to one.

For nearly a century beginning in 1492, Spain enjoyed a near total domination of the Americas.

At the mine of __________ in Bolivia, over 50,000 workers dug silver for the Spanish at elevations of 13,000 feet.

European, __________ , and Asian peoples met in the Americas as part of the Colombian Exchange.

Population explosions of __________ , along with cattle, helped to devastate grasslands in Central America in the early 1500s.